European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics
Naples , Italy
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~elena/evobio08.html

2008 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics

San Francisco, CA

Hosted by: American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), http://www.amia.org/meetings/stb08/

RECOMB 2008--Research in Computational Molecular Biology--12 th Annual International

Singapore

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~recomb08

HiCOMB 2008 High Performance Computational Biology

In conjunction with Int’l Parallel and Distributed Parallel Systems 2008

Miami, FL

Srinivas Aluru is co-chair

http://www.hicomb.org

Biology of Genomes
Cold Springs Harbor

ISBRA 2008 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications
Georgia State University, Atlanta
http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra08/

BMEI2008--The International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics

Sanya, Hainan , China

http://www.hainu.edu.cn/BMEI2008

2008 International Congress on Image and Signal Processing - CISP2008

Sanya, Hainan, China

http://www.hainu.edu.cn/CISP2008

Comparative Genomics

St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland

http://www.sbforum.org/events.php?e_id=41

WCCM8 and ECCOMAS 2008 – Mini Symposiumon Computational Bioimaging and Visualization

June 30 th – July 5 th, 2008

Lido Island, Venice, Italy

http://www.iacm-eccomascongress2008.org

Symposium on Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics

London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom

http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV08/

Bioinformatics Satellite Workshop

Biotec, Dresden, Germany

http://project.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/stemcell-bioinformatics/

BIRD’08 - 2nd Int’l Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development

Austria – Vienna

http://www.birdconf.org

AAAI-08 Nectar Program

Chicago, IL

http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2008/aaai08nectar.php

GECCO 2008 – Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference –

http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2008/index.html

ISMB 2008

Canada – Toronto

http://www.iscb.org/ismb2008/

5 th Alternative Splicing- Special Interest Group

Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada

http://www.alternative-splicing.org/as-sig-08/

Applied Computational Genomics Course

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

http://www.gcbioinformatics.ca/training/

Society for Developmental Biology 67 th Annual Meeting

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

http://www.sdbonline.org/2008Mtg/webpage.htm

Colorado Convention Center 700 14th Street Denver, CO 80202

http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2008/

Conference on Cellular Information Processing
http://cnls.lanl.gov/q-bio/

IB 2008 – 5 th International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics

Wittenberg, Germany

http://www.imbio.de/conference/index.php

ICNC 08-FSKD 08

Shandong University, Shandong, China

http://www.icnc-fskd2008.sdu.edu.cn

First INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics: Databasing and Modeling the Brain

Stockholm, Sweden

http://www.neuroinformatics2008.org

German Conference on Bioinformatics

Postdam University, Postdam, Germany

http://www.gcb2007.de

WATOC 2008

Sydney, Australia

http://www.watoc2008.com/

Mini Euro Conference on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine

The Institute of Systems Analysis and Computer Science, Rome, Italy

http://euro-cbbm.ku.edu.tr/RomeConference/homepage.htm

WABI 2008 – 8 th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics

Karlsruhe University, Karlsruhe, Germany

http://algo2008.org

CIBCB 2008 - The 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in BCB

Sun Valley Resort, Sun Valley, Idaho

http://www.cibcb.org/CIBCB08

International Conference on Intelligent Computing

Shanghai, China

http://www.ic-ic.org/2008/index.htm

Leading Applications and Technologies in Bioinformatics

Martina Franca, Italy

http://www.embnet.org/EMBnet20thAnniversary

ECCB’08 (European Conference on Computational Biology)

Cagliari , Italy

Hosted by: ECCB , http://eccb08.org/

13th Human Genome Meeting (HGM2008)

Genomics and the Future of Medicine

http://hgm2008.hugo-international.org/

The 9 th International Congress on Cell Biology

The Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Seoul, Korea

http://www.iccb2008.org/

6 th RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite Workshop

Paris, France

http://igm.univ-mlv.fr/RCG08/

PRIB 2008 Special Session on High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics

Melbourne, Australia

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/news/conferences/prib08/

Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/news/conferences/prib08/

Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT 2008)

University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas

http://www.biotconf.org/

Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance

Dusit Hotel, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines

http://www.capwip.org/3rdglobalcongress.htm

Registration: Pre-registration deadline: Ocotber 15, 2008
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Nanotechnology/

MICAI 2008: 7th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Mexico City, Mexico

www.MICAI.org/2008

IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2008)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/ieeebibm/bibm08/about/bibm-about.asp

THE 6th ANNUAL ECOLOGICAL GENOMICS SYMPOSIUM:  Genes in Ecology, Ecology in Genes

Kansas City

http://www.k-state.edu/ecogen/symp2008-Brief.html

4 th EMBO Conference: From Functional Genomics to Systems Biology

EMBL Heidelberg, Germnay

http://www-db.embl.de/jss/EmblGroupsOrg/conf_82

19 th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW-2008)

Brisbane, Australia

http://www.mlaa.com.au/giw2008

Special Track (Computational and Visualization) at International Symposium on Visual Computing

Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada

http://www.isvc.net/

Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference

Snowman/Aspen Colorado

http://www.iscb.org/rocky08

International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

Porto, Portugal

http://www.biostec.org/

The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) series, founded in 2003, is an annual international forum for exploring research, development and applications of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The Seventh Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, APBC2009 will be held in Beijing, China, following the 2008 Olympic Games.

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners from all over the world for interaction and exchange of knowledge and ideas in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology.
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Important Dates

Paper submission open May 1, 2008
Paper submission deadline July 20, 2008
Paper acceptance decision Sep 10, 2008
Camera-ready copy of papers and Author registration Oct 10, 2008

Poster submission open July 20, 2008
Poster submission deadline Sept 20, 2008
Poster acceptance decision Oct 1, 2008

Registration open Sept 20, 2008
Early-bird registration Nov 20, 2008

Conference Jan 13-16, 2009
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Confirmed Invited Speakers

* (Keynote) David J. Lipman, M.D., Director, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA
* (Keynote) David Botstein, Ph.D., Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics,
             Director, Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, USA
* Martin Vingron, Ph.D., Director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Head of Computational Molecular Biology Department, Germany
* John Mattick, Ph.D., Professor and ARC Federation Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia
* Michael B. Eisen, Ph.D., Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of California at Berkeley, USA
* Pavel Pevzner, Ph.D., Ronald R. Taylow Professor of Computer Science, Director, Center for Algorithmic and Systems Biology at UCSD, USA
* Bailin Hao, Ph.D., Professor, Fudan University and Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS, China
* Chunting Zhang, Ph.D., Professor, Tianjin University, China

Bioinformatics Track at ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2009

Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii

http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/

2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering
(CSIE 2009)

March 31 - April 2, 2009
Los Angeles/Anaheim, USA

http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CSIE/2009

CALL FOR PAPERS & EXPO

The Los Angeles/Anaheim area is known for its many renowned
attractions, such as Disneyland, Universal Studios and the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. Very few cities in the world offer
as much entertainment, excitement and diversity as Los
Angeles/Anaheim does.

CSIE 2009 intends to be a global forum for researchers and
engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new
techniques in computer science and information engineering.
CSIE 2009 consists of the following Technical Symposiums:

 * Communications & Mobile Computing Symposium
 * Computer Applications Symposium
 * Computer Design & VLSI Symposium
 * Data Mining & Data Engineering Symposium
 * Intelligent Systems Symposium
 * Multimedia & Signal Processing Symposium
 * Software Engineering Symposium

7 th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics

Tubingen, Germany

http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoBIO/EvoBIO.html

SMBE 2009

Iowa City, Iowa

http://ccg.biology.uiowa.edu/smbe/

Systems Biology: Integrative, Comparative, and Multi-Scale Modeling

Ames, IA

http://www.bb.iastate.edu/%7Egfst/phomepg.html

Conference on Cellular Information Processing
http://cnls.lanl.gov/q-bio/