2013 MCBIOS Conference

MCBIOS X will be held at the Stoney Creek Inn adjacent to The University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri

April 5th and 6th, 2013.

The theme of this year's conference is:

"Discovery in a Sea of Data"

Click here to access the Conference Program

This year's keynote speakers are:

John Quackenbush, Ph.D. - Director of the Center for Cancer Computational Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Veronica J. Vieland, Ph.D. - Vice President for Computational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, and The Ohio State University

Conference Workshops-Free with Conference Registration-click for details

New this year-Join us for a pre-conference workshop:

Weida Tong, Ph.D.- FDA/ NCTR, will conduct a workshop on the FDA bioinformatics workbench ArrayTrack, 2-5 PM Thursday April 4, 2013

 

Peter Cooper, Ph.D.- NCBI, will conduct a webinar Friday April 5, 2013

*Those with laptop computers can follow the live examples on the NCBI website. You will need to install NCBI software to fully participate in some of the examples.  Here are useful links:

-BLAST: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/executables/LATEST/

-Genome Workbench: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/gbench/

-Cn3D
Windows:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/CN3D/cn3dwin.shtml
Macintosh: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/CN3D/cn3dmac.shtml

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Early registration deadline is March 22, 2013

 

Register for Conference

Call for Participation

 

The Conference Program Committee invites you to submit an abstract for either a poster or 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.

Abstract Submission Deadlines

                         Abstract submission for the

                       2013 Conference is now closed

 

Poster size limitation-48" x 36" (122cm x 91cm)

 

Awards*

Student Awards

Presentation Awards

  • Students are invited to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations.
  • Student awards for best posters and oral presentations will be presented on Saturday April 6, 2013.
  • To be awarded, the work must be presented by the student(s), one of whom must be present for the Saturday award ceremony.

Travel Stipends

  • Students are invited to submit oral presentation abstracts for a stipend which will be granted at the time of the conference to defray registration and housing costs. Abstracts to be considered for Travel Stipends must be submitted no later than February 22, 2013.

Post Doctoral Awards

  • Two awards for oral presentations by a post doctoral attendee will be made at the Conference. Indicate your status when registering and submitting abstract for the conference.
  • Must be present at award ceremony to receive award.