Call for Papers IEEE CIBCB 2016

IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
The Empress Chiang Mai Hotel
Chiang Mai, Thailand
5-7 October 2016
http://www.cibcb2016.org

Call for Contributed Papers

The annual IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (IEEE CIBCB 2016) is a premier event in the areas of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. It will be held during the 5th to 7th October 2016 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This conference will focus on all topics in Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, including, but not limited to:

• Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics including
• Gene expression array analysis
• Structure prediction and folding
• Molecular sequence alignment and analysis
• Metabolic pathway analysis
• MicroRNA analysis
• Molecular evolution and phylogenetics
• Pattern recognition in bioinformatics
• Real-world applications
• Computational Intelligence in Computational Biology including
• Systems and synthetic biology
• Modeling, simulation, and optimization of biological systems
• Biological network reconstruction
• Pattern recognition in computational biology
• Real-world applications
• Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering including
• Medical imaging and pattern recognition
• Signal and image processing in biomedical engineering
• Biomedical data modeling and mining
• Biomedical model parameterization
• Big data analysis and tools for biological and medical data
• Biomarker discovery and development
• Neuroscience
• Real-world applications

Submissions for oral and poster presentation are invited from researchers, practitioners and students worldwide. Prospective  authors  are invited  to  submit  papers  in  IEEE  format,  including  results,  figures,  and references. Accepted papers longer than six pages will have an additional per page charge.

Call for Special Sessions/Tutorials

Proposals for special sessions/tutorials within the technical scope of the conference are also encouraged. Special Sessions/tutorials  have become a traditional and important part of IEEE CIBCB. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Special session/tutorial proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope, contact information and brief CV of the organizers/tutorial presenter(s).

For general inquiry, please contact General chair Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul at cibcb2016@gmail.com.
For program inquiry, please contact Program co-chair Nipon Theera-Umpon at nipon@ieee.org.

Important Due Date

Special sessions/tutorials               30 January 2016
Acceptance of special sessions             15 February 2016
Paper submission                      30 April 2016
Notification of acceptance               30 June 2016
Camera ready copy due               30 July 2016

Honorary Chairs

James M. Keller
University of Missouri-Columbia
Gary B. Fogel
Natural Selection, Inc.

General Chair

Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul
Chiang Mai University

Program Co-Chairs

Nipon Theera-Umpon
Chiang Mai University
Mihail Popescu
University of Missouri-Columbia

Finance Chair

Sermsak Uatrongjit
Chiang Mai University

Web Development Chair

Sakgasit Ramingwong
Chiang Mai University

Publication Co-Chairs

Dome Potikanond
Chiang Mai University
Patiwet Wuttisarnwattana
Chiang Mai University

Plenary Speakers

Byung-Jun Yoon, Ph.D., Texas A&M University: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Biography

Dr. Byung-Jun Yoon received the B.S.E. (summa cum laude) degree from the Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea, in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, in 2002 and 2007, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. In 2008, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, where he was an Assistant Professor during 2008-2014 and an Associate Professor since 2014. Recently, Dr. Yoon joined the College of Science and Engineering at the Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar, as a founding faculty member, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Dr. Yoon is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER

 Award, a senior member of IEEE, and editorial board member for several international journals.

To date, Dr. Yoon has authored over 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers and he has organized or co-organized several international conferences and workshops in bioinformatics and computational network biology. One of his recent papers on probabilistic multiple RNA sequence alignment received the Best Paper Award at the 9th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2011). Furthermore, his recent paper on efficient experimental design to reduce uncertainty in gene regulatory networks received the Best Paper Award at the 12^th MCBIOS Conference. Dr. Yoon's main research interests include bioinformatics, computational network biology, machine learning, and signal processing.

URL: http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~bjyoon
URL: http://BioMLSP.com

Steven G. Rozen, Ph.D., Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore: Duke-NUS Centre for Computational Biology, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program.


Biography

Steve Rozen has made major scientific contributions in the areas of bioinformatics, human genetics, and cancer genomics. He earned a PhD in computer science from New York University, and then worked at the Whitehead-MIT Genome Center on the human genome project. There, he created the widely-used Primer3 software for PCR primer design. He also worked on sequencing the human, chimpanzee, rhesus monkey, and mouse Y chromosomes, and published extensively on mutations in human Y chromosomes and their clinical consequences.

Rozen came to Duke-NUS in 2008, when he began using high-throughput, genomic technologies to better understand cancer and potential therapies. He also founded and now directs the Duke-NUS Centre for Computational Biology. This Centre comprises five faculty, who are engaged in cutting-edge research and education, and who have published > 140 scientific papers since 2011. Rozen's own laboratory focuses on cancer genomics and is part of a team-science effort with Professors Bin Teh and Patrick Tan that has produced multiple high-profile papers. These include papers that used mutation signatures to trace the role of a particular herbal remedy in causing multiple types of cancer, and papers in top-level journals on mutations that cause stomach cancer, bile-duct cancers, and breast fibroepithelial tumors. This team leads the International Cancer Genome Consortium's research on bile-duct cancers and T- and NK-cell lymphomas. Rozen also co-leads the Consortium's Working Group on Mutation Signatures, which aims to computationally extract mutation signatures and deduce carcinogenic exposures in ~20,000 tumors.

URL: https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/content/rozen-steve