IEEE 7th BIBE (IEEE BIBE 2007)
Cambridge-Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Hosted by: IEEE Computer Society and Biological and Artificial
Intelligence Society
Venue:
Dates: Oct 15-17. 2007
Call for Papers: March 1, 2007 - May 15, 2007
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Call for Paper
IEEE 7th Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE07),
Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, the Biological and Artificial
Intelligence Society (BAIS) in cooperation with Wright State University,
Dayton, Ohio; Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; Georgia State
University, Atlanta, Georgia; Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard University, will be held at Cambridge - Boston,
Massachusetts, USA, October 15-17, 2007.
Bioinformatics and Bioengineering are complementary disciplines that
hold great promise for the advancement of research and development in
complex medical and biological systems, agriculture, environment, public
health, drug design, and so on. Research and development in these two
areas are impacting the science and technology of fields such as medicine,
food production, forensics, etc. by advancing fundamental concepts in
molecular biology and in medicine, by helping us understand living
organisms at multiple levels, by developing innovative implants and
prosthetics, by new medical image technologies, and by improving tools and
techniques for the detection, prevention and treatment of diseases. The
BIBE Symposium provides a common platform for the cross fertilization of
ideas, and to help shape knowledge and scientific achievements by bridging
these two very important and complementary disciplines into an interactive
and attractive forum. Keeping this objective in mind, BIBE solicits
original contributions in the following non exclusive lists of areas.
IEEE BIBE 2007 welcomes submissions in all areas of bioinformatics,
bioengineering, computational biology, medical physics, radiation
oncology, image processing, scientific computing, statistical analysis,
computational intelligence, data mining and knowledge discovery.
Submissions of theoretical and application papers relating to biological
science, medical science, pharmaceutical science, agricultural science,
human health, medical images, cancer diagnosis and therapy, proteomics,
protein structure and function, sequence analysis, gene expressions and
regulations, system biology, genetics and genomics are all welcomed.
- Biomedical Informatics and Computation: Bio-molecular and
Phylogenetic Databases, Query Languages, Interoperability, Bio-Ontology
and Data Mining, System Biology, Identification and Classification of
Genes, Sequence Search and Alignment, Protein Structure Prediction and
Molecular Simulation, Molecular Evolution and Phylogeny, Functional
Genomics, Proteomics, Drug Discovery Gene Expression Analysis,
Bio-languages, Bioinformatics Engineering, Data Visualization, Signaling
and Computation Biomedical Data Engineering, Medical Image Processing
(Segmentation, Registration, Fusion),Telemedicine, Modeling and
Simulation, and Biomedical Imaging.
- Bio-Engineering: Biological Systems and Models, Engineering Models
in Biomedicine, Image Guided Radiation Therapy, 4-D Images, Intensity
Modulated Radiation Therapy, Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy, Dose
Calculation and Optimization, Monte Carlo Simulation, Biological Modeling,
New Technologies in MRI, PET, CAT, Mammography and Cancer Detection.
Biomedical Sensors, Computer Assisted Intervention Systems and Robotics,
Bionic Human, Cell Engineering, Molecular and Cellular Systems, Body's and
Cell's Bio-signatures, Tissue Engineering, and Biomaterials.
All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and indexed in EI, and
further considered for journal special issues dedicated to IEEE BIBE 2007
such as IJBB, Springer's LNCS Transaction on Computational System Biology,
IJBRA, IJDMB, and JCIB.
IEEE BIBE Best Paper Awards will be conferred to the authors of (1)
the best research papers (2) the best application papers and (3) the best
student papers. Foundational and original results will be considered for
the best research paper awards; application-oriented submissions will be
considered for the best application paper awards and papers first authored
by students (graduate or undergraduate full-time students) will be
considered for the best student paper awards.
IEEE BIBE 2007 will offer a limited number of travel fellowships. Those
awards are based on the quality of papers only (no separate application).
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Jay Steven Loeffler
Herman and Joan Suit Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Harvard
University. Radiation Oncology Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital and
Harvard Medical School. Director, Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center at
the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Dr. Jun S. Liu
Director of Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology
Laboratory, Professor of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Broad
Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University,
USA
Dr. Mary Qu Yang
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of
Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, USA
Dr. Yi Pan
Chair and Professor, Georgia State University, Editor-in-Chief,
International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications and
Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics, USA
Dr. A. Keith Dunker
T. K. Li Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry, Molecular
Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine. Director and Distinguished
Professor of Bioinformatics, School of Informatics. Director, Center for
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University Purdue
University. Co-Chair of PSB and Editor of JCIB.
MEETING ORGANIZATION:
Conference General Chair:
Dr. Nikolaos G. Bourbakis, Fellow of IEEE
Director of Ohio Information Technology Research Institute.
Ohio Board of Regents (OBR) Distinguished Professor
College of Engineering and Computer Science, Wright State
University, USA
Program General Chairs:
Dr. Jack Y. Yang (Program General Chair)
Harvard University, USA
Dr. Yanqing Zhang (Program Vice General Chair and Bioinformatics Track
Chair)
Georgia State University, USA
Dr. George T. Y. Chen (Program Vice General Chair and Bioengineering Track
Chair)
Director and Distinguished Professor, Radiation Physics Division
Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Publicity Chairs
Dr. Okan K. Ersoy, Fellow of IEEE
Director and Distinguished Professor, Statistical and Computational
Intelligence Lab.
Purdue University, USA
Dr. Michael Folkert
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
HST of Harvard-MIT, USA
Dr. Yingshu Li
Georgia State University, USA
Publication Chairs
Dr. Yufang Jin
University of Texas, USA
Dr. Alex Zelikovsky
Georgia State University, USA
Workshop Chairs
Dr. A. Keith Dunker
T. K. Li Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology,
Indiana University School of Medicine. Director and Distinguished
Professor of
Bioinformatics, School of Informatics. Director, Center for
Computational Biology
and Bioinformatics.
Indiana University Purdue University
Dr. Ying Xu
Director of Institute of Bioinformatics
Regents-GRA Eminent Scholar and Distinguished Professor
University of Georgia and Oak Ridge National Lab.
Tutorial Chairs
Dr. Daisuke Kihara
Purdue University, USA
Dr. Vasile Palade
Oxford University, U.K.
Dr. My Tra Thai
University of Florida, USA
Local Chair
Dr. Michael Folkert
Steering Committee Chair
Dr. Nikolaos G. Bourbakis
Paper Submission
Papers must be written in English in the IEEE two-column format and should
be limited to 8 pages. Detailed description of the conference paper format
(8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format can be found at IEEE Computer Society
Conference Publishing Services (CPS)). The paper to be uploaded must be in
Adobe's PDF format. The deadline for submitting an abstract along with the
original paper via an online paper submission system is May 15, 2007.
Important Date:
Online Submission Deadline: May 15, 2007
Acceptance Notification: June 25, 2007
Camera-Ready & Registration: July 10, 2007
IEEE 7th BIBE: October 15-17, 2007
Contact:
Dr. Jack Y. Yang
jyang@hadron.mgh.harvard.edu
Dr. Yanqing Zhang
yzhang@cs.gsu.edu