The Fifth Annual Conference of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society

LOCALE: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (US)
DATES: February 23rd-24th, 2008

OVERVIEW

The theme of this year’s conference is "Systems Biology – Bridging the Omics”. We are planning a combination of interactive panel discussions, and technical presentations, both poster and platform, during the conference. Student participants are automatically entered in our cash award competition for Best Student Research Presentation. Be sure and make a hotel reservation and register early to take advantage of our special “early bird” discount.

The Conference Program Committee invites you to submit an abstract for either a poster or platform (oral) presentation. Abstracts are limited to 250 words in length. At the latest, authors will be notified of acceptance by December 20th for oral presentations and February 8th for poster presentations. Presenters will be eligible to submit a manuscript for publication in the Conference Proceedings, which are published annually in BMC Bioinformatics, an open-access bioinformatics journal ranked second in the field. Past Proceedings: 2005, 2006, 2007.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submit abstracts for oral presentations: December 15th, 2007
Earlybird registration deadline: January 11th, 2008
Submit abstracts for poster presentations: February 1st, 2008
Late registration deadline: February 11th, 2008
Onsite registration: February 23rd & 24th
Tentative Post-Conference Paper Deadline: March 30th, 2008

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Further details, including the registration and abstract submission interfaces, are available at: http://www.okbios.org.