BITS2011 - Pisa – June 20-22, 2011, Area della Ricerca del CNR
Call for Contributions
Topics
Submitted contributions should address novel bioinformatics methods, algorithms, databases, tools and applications for research and development in one or more of the following domains:
- Genomics
- Molecular Evolution and Comparative Genomics
- Protein structure and function
- Proteomics
- Transcriptomics
- Metagenomics
- Systems Biology
- Biological Databases and Biobanks
- Algorithms for Bioinformatics
- Biophysics and Synthetic Biology
- Industrial Track
In addition to the usual Topics of general pertinence in Bioinformatics, this meeting will cover two new areas:
- Biophysics and Synthetic biology (as Structural biology and Origin of Life themes are in common between these disciplines and Bioinformatics)
- Industrial track: in cooperation with Fondazione Toscana Life-Sciences, with the goal to have a parallel discussion of the possible industrial applications of the scientific subjects discussed during the sessions.
We stimulate industries not only to submit scientific contributions, that are welcome as usual, but to give short talks focused on their needs, goals and direction concerning bioinformatics, with particular emphasis at opening a dialogue with young researchers and Ph. D. students. A round table in the last congress day will collect a global assessment of how the industrial world sees the bioinformatics research.
Special Issue
All authors will be invited to submit an extended and revised manuscript to a Call for papers for a Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics devoted to best works from BITS 2011.
Practicalities
Conference Website: www.bits2011.it
Conference location: Area della Ricerca del CNR – Pisa (see the conference website for details)
Auditiorum – CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Invited speakers
- Arthur Lesk, Penn State University, PA, USA
- Cedric Notredame, CRG, Barcelona
- Bud Mishra, New York University, NY, USA.
- Marie-France Sagot, INRIA-Lyon, France
Important dates
Abstract of Posters and Communications, submission deadline : April 19, 2011.
Travel fellowship request deadline:extended to April 26, 2011.
Communications and Posters Acceptance: May 17, 2011.
Travel fellowship awards: May 17, 2011.
Early registration deadline: May 20, 2011.
Conference: June 20-22, 2011.
Tutorials
Tutorial lectures on selected topics in Bioinformatics will be held at the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa on June 22nd in the afternoon (more details will be posted on the conference web site).
Scientific Committee
- Gianni Cesareni (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
- Domenica D'Elia (CNR - Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Bari)
- Angelo Facchiano (CNR - Istituto di Scienze dell'Alimentazione, Avellino)
- Manuela Helmer-Citterich (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
- Sabino Liuni (CNR- Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Bari)
- Roberto Marangoni (Università di Pisa)
- Marco Pellegrini (CNR - Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Pisa)
- Paolo Romano (Istituto Nazionale Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova)
- Giorgio Valle (Università di Padova)
Organizing Committee:
Roberto Marangoni (Università di Pisa)
Marco Pellegrini (CNR - Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Pisa)
Giuliano Colombetti (CNR – Istituto di Biofisica)
Adriana Lazzaroni (CNR - Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Pisa)
Filippo Geraci (CNR - Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Pisa)
Elena Renda (CNR - Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Pisa)
Elena Renda (CNR - Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Pisa)
Andrea Frosini (Fondazione Toscana Life-Sciences)
Nadia Pisanti (Università di Pisa)
Pierpaolo Degano (Università di Pisa)
Giulia Menconi (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica - Roma)
Travel Grants for Young Researchers
The Bioinformatics Italian Society provides young researchers with travel grants for attending its annual general meeting.
Eligibility:
Young researchers (up to 35 years old) that are BITS members or are requesting to become members, without a permanent position and submitting an abstract to the conference as first or last author may apply. Priority will be given to young researchers not receiving a BITS travel fellowship in previous years.
Evaluation:
Travel Grants will be awarded according to the scores assigned by the Scientific Committee to the submitted abstracts. Only the best scoring attendee per each research group may be rewarded with a travel grant. Young researchers requesting to become members may only receive the grant if the BITS Steering Committee has provisionally given its approval to their candidature.
Grants:
Each travel grant will amount to € 300.00, which will be credited to the bank account of selected candidates after the conference and provided that they effectively participated in the meeting.
Deadlines:
Applications should be received together with the submitted abstract (both for Posters and Communications). Submission of candidature to become BITS members should be done within the same deadline (for young researchers who aren't members yet).
Registration:
Student fees apply, according to registration date.
Satellite Event
Workshop “Quantitative biology: a matter of perspective" , Rome, June 22-24, 2011. See the web site http://www.biocomputing.it/quantbiol/ for further details.
