BITS 2010
Seventh Annual General Meeting of the Italian Bioinformatics Society
14-16 April 2010, Bari (IT)
http://bits2010.ba.itb.cnr.it/
First Announcement and Preliminary Call for Abstracts
The Italian Bioinformatics Society in collaboration with the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology “E.Quagliariello” of the Bari University and the Institute for Biomedical Technologies of the CNR in Bari, are pleased to announce the “Seventh Annual General Meeting of the Italian Bioinformatics Society (BITS 2010)” to be held in Bari, Italy, from 14th to 16th April 2010.
The BITS 2010 event will highlight cutting-edge advances in all major topics of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Major aim of the conference is to provide an overview of Italian bioinformatics research and a forum for in-depth assessment of the challenges involved in the dynamic and fast moving field of Bioinformatics for molecular biology research. Scientific topics covered will include many areas of interest such as metagenomics, system biology, structural and functional genomics, trascriptomics and proteomics. A particular focus will be on tools and strategies for the storage, management and analysis of data produced by next generation sequencing platforms and other high-throughput techniques.
The program includes 4 keynote lectures (50-60 minutes presentations, additional questions), more than twenty selected short oral presentations (20 minutes presentations, additional questions), poster sessions and two tutorials which will be held in the morning of the first meeting day (April 14, 2010).
Invited Speakers
Prof. Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, University of Uppsala, The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
Prof. Cecilia Saccone, University of Bari, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and CNR, Institute for Biomedical Technologies, Bari, Italy
Prof. Edward N. Trifonov, University of Haifa, Genome Diversity Center, Israel and Masaryk University Division of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, Czech Republic
Prof. Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute and Institute of Biology, Copenhagen, Denmark
Deadlines: March 15, 2010
Submitted contributions should address novel bioinformatics and computational biology methods, algorithms, databases, tools and applications for research and development in one or more of the following domains:
This list is by no means exclusive of any further topics in the field of Bioinformatics.
Instructions
Abstracts must be submitted through the BITS 2010 Abstracts submission form (soon available from the conference web site!).
All abstracts must be written in English and structured in the following sections: Motivation, Methods, Results. Abstracts' length cannot be greater than 5,000 characters or 4,000 characters (spaces included) when a figure is also included. The abstracts can be submitted for poster or poster/oral presentations. Among the latter the BITS 2010 Scientific Committee will select the contributions for oral presentations based on their scientific merit, novelty and practical application.
Marcella Attimonelli - University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Social activities
Social activities will include a welcome party, a guided tour in Trani, one of the most beautiful town of the Apulian region with many typical examples of roman-apulian architecture, and a gala dinner at conclusion of the guided tour.
Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities are also available, for details please visit the BITS 2010 call for sponsors at the conference web site.
For more details on the conference and registration, please visit the conference Web site at http://bits2010.ba.itb.cnr.it
We look forward to your participation.
Best regards,
The BITS 2010 Organizing Committee
