[Fis] Fwd: NIH BISTI Symposium on Digital Biology

Dear Colleagues:

These meetings may be of interest to FIS.
Note especially the two satellite events at teh bottom of the page.

Cheers

Jerry

>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:19:22 -0400
>Reply-To: "DeLeo, James (NIH/CIT)" <DeleoJ@MAGIC.DCRT.NIH.GOV>
>Sender: BCIG is a Biomedical Computing Interest Group
> <BCIG-L@list.nih.gov>
>From: "DeLeo, James (NIH/CIT)" <DeleoJ@MAGIC.DCRT.NIH.GOV>
>Subject: NIH BISTI Symposium on Digital Biology
>To: BCIG-L@list.nih.gov
>
>SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR POSTERS
>
>Two-Day Symposium in Biomedical Computing -"Digital Biology: The Emerging
>Paradigm"
>
>"Digital Biology: The Emerging Paradigm," a symposium in biomedical
>computing, will take place November 6-7, 2003, in the Natcher Conference
>Center on the main NIH campus. This symposium has been organized by the
>NIH Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI)
>Consortium.
>
>The symposium will offer a broad look at the convergence of biomedical and
>computational research. Key issues to be addressed include: (1) the
>mounting scientific imperative to study biological systems at multiple
>levels of organization, (2) the growing need to use quantitative
>approaches to analyze biomedical data on a large scale, and (3) the
>potential impact of extensive computer networks on the nature and conduct
>of biomedical research.
>
>Keynote Speakers and Program Highlights
>Dr. Sydney Brenner, a recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
>Medicine, and Distinguished Professor at the Salk Institute, will present
>the Biology keynote address. Dr. Nathan Myhrvold, a co-founder and
>managing director of the private entrepreneurial firm Intellectual
>Ventures and formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Corporation
>will present the Technology keynote address.
>
>Other program features include scientific poster presentations,
>demonstrations, a grant writing information session, and concurrent
>sessions addressing scientific data integration, networked science, and
>quantitative biology.
>
>Call for Posters
>Those wishing to present a poster at the meeting should submit an abstract
>of the research by August 20, 2003. Authors will be notified of
>acceptance by September 30, 2003. Guidelines for abstract preparation and
>submission, poster presentation, and selection criteria are available at
>http://www.bisti.nih.gov/2003meeting/.
>
>Registration and Additional Information
>A preliminary agenda and registration information are available at
>http://www.bisti.nih.gov/2003meeting/. If you have questions, please
>e-mail bistic@nih.gov.
>
>Videocast
>Selected meeting sessions will be available by videocast
>(http://videocast.nih.gov).
>
>Sign Language Interpretation
>Individuals with disabilities who need sign language interpreters and/or
>reasonable accommodation to participate in this conference should contact
>Kevin Lauderdale at lauderdk@nigms.nih.gov or 301-541-6446 or the Federal
>TTY Relay number (1-800-877-8339). Requests should be made at least 5 days
>in advance of the event.
>
>Organizing Consortium
>The NIH Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI)
>Consortium includes representatives from 26 NIH institutes and centers and
>from other Federal agencies. The consortium fosters new basic
>understandings, collaborations, and trans-disciplinary initiatives between
>the computational and biomedical sciences. For more information on
>biomedical computing at NIH and the BISTI Consortium visit
>http://www.bisti.nih.gov/.
>
>Satellite Events
>In conjunction with the NIH symposium, the National Institute of Standards
>and Technology (NIST) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will
>convene two satellite events, which will meet November 4-5 in the Bethesda
>area. Reports of both events will be briefly summarized at a plenary
>session of the NIH symposium.
>
>The NIST workshop is titled "Information Science Standards to Enable
>Biomedical Research." Additional information is available at
>http://www.nist.gov/director/NIH/workshop.htm.
>
>The NSF event is titled "Information Processing in the Biological Organism
>(A Systems Biology Approach). Additional information is available at
>http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/InfoProcess/ .

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Received on Sat Jun 21 04:42:46 2003