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MCBIOS V (2008)
MCBIOS VI (2009)
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The Seventh Annual Conference of the
MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society
MCBIOS 2010
Bioinformatics: Systems, Biology, Informatics and Computation
Jonesboro, Arkansas
February 19-20, 2010
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Click Here to Register Now!
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What is MCBIOS?
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MCBIOS is the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society. The organization
sponsors an annual conference in the mid-south region.
MCBIOS seeks to foster networking and collaboration,
and promote the professional development of its members.
Both senior members and students will find MCBIOS to be
a welcoming environment for both presenting on-going research in the
form of posters and presentations, as well as publishing peer-reviewed
papers based on that work in the annual proceedings.
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Call for Participation
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The Conference Program Committee invites you to submit an abstract for either a poster or
platform (oral) presentation. Abstracts are limited to 250 words in length. Participants
presenting either a poster or a talk will be eligible to submit a manuscript for publication in
the Conference Proceedings. As in previous years, we plan to publish the proceedings in
BMC Bioinformatics, a highly-ranked open-access journal.
We are also seeking volunteers to serve on various MCBIOS Conference and Society
committees. Please contact Daniel Berleant, pres. (jdberleant@ualr.edu) or Doris Kupfer,
sec. (doris.kupfer@faa.gov), to volunteer. We are also looking for volunteers to lead the society (board or
committee members) and to form local chapters throughout the region. Please contact
any current board member to volunteer or
for more information. For 2010, we are featuring a track on applications of computing in biology,
intended for practicing biologists who are using computing or computerized equipment in their work.
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Topics
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The conference is open to all topics within the areas of bioinformatics and computational biology. For 2010, we are featuring a track of applications of computing in biology, intended for practicing biologists who are using computing or computerized equipment in their work. Based on abstract submissions and suggestions that we receive (see below), technical sessions and panel discussions will be chosen. Topics include sequence analysis, image processing, microarrays analysis, protein structure/function prediction, gene finding algorithms, genomics, metagenomics, pathway analysis, systems biology and metabolic/cellular simulations and applications. Other bioinformatics topics are also welcome.
View the program online or
download the program (.doc, 2148kb).
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Key Dates
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Deadline for abstracts for oral presentation Jan 15, 2010
Acceptance for abstracts Jan 22, 2010
Deadline for abstracts for poster presentation Jan 22, 2010
Deadline for abstracts for poster presentation Jan 29, 2010
Acceptance for posters Jan 29, 2010
Deadline for early registration Feb 5, 2010
Conference Feb 19-20, 2010
Full papers due (tentative) Mar 29, 2010
Submit an abstract now!
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Keynote Speakers
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We are delighted to honor the following keynote speakers:
- Elaine Ostrander, Ph.D., Head, Comparative Genetics Section, National Human Genome Research Institute
- Clayton Naeve, Ph.D., Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Robert Cottingham, Leader, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Click here for biographical sketches of the keynote speakers.
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Workshops
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We are also happy to provide the following workshops (free with conference registration) on Friday, Feb. 19.
- Clayton Naeve, Ph.D., Dan McGoldrick, Ph.D, and Caroline Obert, Ph.D.,
Next Generation Sequencing Laboratories and their IT Requirements
- Jeffery Cook, Bioinformatics Tools
Click here for biographical sketches of the keynote speakers.
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Venue
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- The 2010 MCBIOS conference will be held in Centennial Hall in the
Student Union building on the Arkansas State University campus in Jonesboro, AR,
located in northeast Arkansas near the Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky borders.
It is accessible by Memphis International Airport.
Click for a PDF map or an interactive map.
- A block of rooms has been reserved at the newly opened Fairfield Inn and Suites, 3408 Access Rd.
Phone: (870) 934-1600. The special price is $70.00+tax per room. There are 20 rooms
with 2 beds and 20 rooms with 1 bed.
- A block of rooms has been reserved at the Super 8 Motel in
Jonesboro at 2500 S. Caraway Rd. Phone: (870) 972-0849 or (800) 800-8000.
It is convenient to US route 63. 30 rooms with 2 beds, and 10 rooms with 1 bed,
are reserved at $49.99+tax per room.
- A block of 30 rooms (2 beds each)
has been reserved at the Comfort Inn & Suites of Jonesboro
at 2911 Gilmore Drive. Take
I-55 to Hwy 63N (exit 23B). On 63 take Caraway Road exit; right on Phillips Drive.
Then right on Gilmore Drive.
Phone: (870) 972-9000.
A special rate of $50.00+tax per night (good until the day before the conference)
for MCBIOS 2010 includes a breakfast bar.
You must mention the MCBIOS rate upon hotel reservation and check-in.
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Student Participation
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Students are invited to submit abstracts for oral presentations or posters.
Student awards for best posters and oral presentations will be presented on Saturday,
February. The awards are sponsored by the Great Plains Network (http://greatplains.net).
To be awarded, the work must be presented (in either poster or oral presentation)
by the student(s), one of whom must be listed as the first author, and one of whom
must be present for the Saturday afternoon award ceremony.
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Registration and Fees
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Click here to register now!
Registration includes lunch on both days and the conference banquet on Friday evening. Last day for early registration is February 5th.
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Early |
Regular |
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$225 |
$275 |
| Student |
$125 |
$150 |
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Contacts
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Richard Segall, Conference Chair: rsegall AT astate.edu
Daniel Berleant, President: berleant AT gmail.com
Ulisses Braga-Neto, President Elect: ulisses AT mail.ece.tamu.edu.
Dawn Wilkins, Past President: dwilkins AT cs.olemiss.edu
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| Join our Listserv |
We are actively recruiting new members of our society! We encourage you to join the MCBIOS-L
listserv. This is a moderated listserv with very low volume -- only "official" society announcements
are approved. For some of you, this may be your first awareness of the society. If you wish to join the
MCBIOS-L listserv, you can send a message to LISTSERV -AT- UALR.EDU (no subject required) with "SUBSCRIBE MCBIOS-L" in the body, or send email to RAHall2 -AT- UALR.Edu to be added to (or removed from) the MCBIOS-L listserv.
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| MCBIOS History |
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The first two MCBIOS conference were held in Little Rock Arkansas. The themes were
"Building Networks" and "Bioinformatics: A Systems Approach", respectively. In 2006
and 2007, the conference was held in Louisiana. We met in Baton Rouge in 2006, where
the theme was "Bioinformatics: A Calculated Discovery", and in New Orleans in 2007,
where the theme was "Computational Frontiers in Biomedicine". The 2008 conference
was held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and the theme was "Systems Biology - Bridging the Omics".
The sixth annual MCBIOS (MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society)
was held in Starkville, MS on February. The theme was "Transformational Bioinformatics:
Delivering Value from Genomes". The seventh MCBIOS will be in Jonesboro, AR on
Feb. 19-20, 2010. The theme will be "Bioinformatics: Systems, Biology, Informatics and Computation".
The annual MCBIOS conference has historically attracted internationally renowned speakers,
including David Mount, author of the popular bioinformatics textbook Bioinformatics:
Sequence and Genome Analysis, Michael Gribskov, President of the International Society
for Computational Biology, Alan Leshner, AAAS CEO and executive publisher of Science,
Richard A. Gibbs, Director of the Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center, and Winston
Hide, Director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute.
The conference attendance in previous years has reflected its status as the premier
forum in the region, gathering faculty and students from all states in the region and beyond.
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