Conferences & Schools - 2013

Below is a manually curated list of upcoming meetings relevant to quantitative gene regulation, especially focused at biophysics and epigenetics. Feel free to advertize your events. Complementary lists of related conferences are available here, here and here. If you are located in Heidelberg, also have a look at the Unseminars in Bioinformatics.

January 2013:

• ICBB 2013: International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Zurich, Switzerland, January 14-15, 2013.

February 2013:

• Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting - February 2-6, 2013

March 2013:

• Physical Biology of Cancer, 7 - 10 March, 2013, Candiolo, Italy. (Registration deadline 31 December 2012).
• "Epigenetics & Chromatin: Interactions and processes", 11-13 March 2013, Harvard Medical School, Boston. (Abstract deadline: 13 December 2012)
• NGS data analysis workshop (hosted by Genomatix), TUM, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, March 18-22, 2013
• International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics 2013, 9th annual meeting, 18th - 20th March 2013, IPK-Gatersleben, Germany
• Joint International Meeting of the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ) and the German Society for Developmental Biology (GfE). March 20 – 23, 2013, Heidelberg. (Abstract deadline: 31 January 2013).
• Advances in Systems Biology: Modelling Complex Biological Systems in the Context of Genomics. Thematic Research School. March 25 - 29, 2013, La Colle-sur-Loup (France)
• "Mathematical Modeling in Cell Biology", Lyon, March 25-29, 2013. (Registration deadline March 1st; free registration).

April 2013:

• Course "Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing; technologies, applications, and data analysis".  April 2-5, 2013, Breda, Netherlands.
• NCI Symposium on Chromosome Biology: Epigenetics in Development, April 4-5, 2013, Natcher Conference Center, Bethesda, Maryland
• RECOMB-SEQ: Third annual recomb satellite workshop on massively parallel sequencing. April 11-12, 2013, Beijing, China
• "Cancer Genetics & Epigenetics", April 21-26, 2013, Lucca (Barga), Italy. (Application deadline: March 24, 2013).

May 2013:

• The 11th Bioinformatics Research and Education Workshop, May 3-4, 2013, Berlin, Germany
• "The next NGS callenge: data analysis and integration", Valencia, Spain, 14-16 May 2013. (Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2013).
• 4th Workshop on Biomolecules and Nanostructures, Warsaw, Poland, May 15-19, 2013
• "Chromatin and Epigenetics", EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, 8 May - 12 May 2013. (Deadline: 1 March 2013).
• "Chromosome Dynamics", Gordon Research Conference, May 26-31, 2013, Lucca (Barga), Italy. (Deadlne: April 28, 2013).

June 2013:

• 10th International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology (WCSB), Tampere, Finland. June 10-12, 2013.
• "The 4D Nucleome", June 12-15, 2013 - IMB Mainz, Germany
• 6th Theoretical Biophysics Symposium, Univ of Gothenburg, Sweden, June 24-27 2013.
• "Chromatin, Replication and Chromosomal Stability 2013, June 17-19, 2013, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• "In silico Systems Biology", Joint EMBL–EBI–Wellcome Trust Course, June 25 - 29, 2013, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge (UK)

July 2013:

• 9th European Biophysics Congress, 13-17 July 2013, Lisbon
• Summer School in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, "Computational Network Biology", Lipari, Italy, July 13-20, 2013. (Deadline: April 30, 2013)
• Summer School "Quantitative Biology: Current concepts and tools for microbial strain and process development". 15 – 19 July 2013, Berlin.
• "Rules of protein-DNA recognition: computational and experimental advances". The Banff International Research Station, Canada, 16-21 July, 2013.
• The 21st Jerusalem School in Life Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel. July 21-25, 2013.
• ISMB/ECCB 2013 - Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Berlin, July 19 - 23, 2013.
• Santa Barbara Advanced School of Quantitative Biology, KITP, University of California Santa Barbara, USA. July 22- August 24, 2013.

August 2013:

• The Wilhelm Bernhard Workshop on the Cell Nucleus, 19-24 August, 2013, University of Debrecen, Hungary. (Young Scientist Travel fellowships, deadline 30 April 2013).
• ICSB 2013 - 14th International Conference on Systems Biology, August 29 - September 4, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark

September 2013:

• "Chromatin and Systems Biology", Spetses Summer School, Spetses Island, Greece. 30 August - 05 September, 2013.
• International Symposium "Chromatin Changes in Differentiation and Malignancies", Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, September 2-4, 2013
• The 19th International Chromosome Conference, 2nd-6th September 2013, Bologna, Italy.
• Thermodynamics Conference 2013,  3–6 September 2013, Manchester, UK (Extended abstract deadline April 15th).
• German Conference on Bioinformatics 2013, Göttingen, September 10-13, 2013. (Deadline for paper submission 31 May 2013).
• "DNA methylation and demethylation", Roscoff (Brittany), France, September 14-18, 2013. (Application Deadline: May 15, 2013)
• "Modeling Interactions in Biomolecules", Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic, 16-19 September 2013
• Computational Methods in Systems Biology, 23-25 September, 2013, IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria. (Poster Deadline: 3 June, 2013)

October 2013:

• Nuclear structure and dynamics, 2 – 6 October 2013, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France. (Registration: from 1 March to 15 May 2013)
• Cell Symposia: Cancer Epigenomics, 6th - 8th October 2013, Sitges, Spain. (Abstract submission deadline June 21, 2013)
• “Chromatin Dynamics and Stem Cells” Conference, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz, Germany, 17-20 October 2013. (deadline for abstract submission is the 25th August 2013)

November 2013:

• Barcelona Conference on Epigenetics and Cancer – BCEC 2013, CosmoCaixa Science Museum, Barcelona, Spain, 21-22 November 2013,

Conferences & Schools - 2012

January 2012:

• Workshop on the Structure and Function of Chromatin and Chromosomes, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2012, Tuesday, January 3, 2012, The Big Island of Hawaii
• "Chromatin Dynamics" joint with "Epigenomics", Keystone Symposia.  Keystone Resort,  Keystone, Colorado, USA. January 17 - 22, 2012. (Registration deadline January 17, 2012).

April 2012:

• "Epigenetics, Chromatin & Transcription", Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conferences, Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center, April 23 - 27, 2012. (Abstract deadline: February 10th, 2012).

May 2012:

• "Chromatin Structure & Function", Gordon Conference, May 6-11, 2012, Il Ciocco Hotel and Resort, Lucca (Barga), Italy. (Application deadline April 8, 2012).
• EMBO practical Course on "Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analyses". Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples - Italy, 7 – 19 May, 2012.
• "Physics and Mathematics of Cancer", The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), USA, May 21, 2012 - Jul 13, 2012.

June 2012:

• Mathematical Modeling and Computational Topics in Biosciences (BIOCOMP2012), June 4-8, 2012, Vietri sul Mare, Italy
• "The Biology and Physics of Bacterial Genome Organization", Loretnz Center, Leiden. June 18-22, 2012.
• 8th International Conference on the Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure\Systems Biology, Novosibirsk, Russia, 25-29 June 2012
• "Chromatin: from structure to epigenetics", Strasbourg, France, June 26-27, 2012

July 2012

• Quantitative Biology: Current concepts and tools for strain and process developments. Summer School. Berlin, 16-20 July 2012.

August 2012:

• q-bio Summer School 2012, July 22 - August 4, 2012 (followed by the q-Bio Conference.) Santa Fe, NM, and San Diego, CA.
• "Transcription and Chromatin", 10th EMBL Conference, 25 - 28 August 2012, Heidelberg. (Registration and Abstract Deadline: 14 June 2012)

September 2012:

• "Physics of cells - from soft to living matter", 2 - 8 September 2012, Hyères, France

October 2012:

• "Next Generation Sequencing", Practical Course, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, October 8 - 16, 2012
• "Computational biology: From genomes to cells and systems",  EMBO Practical Course, ES–L'Escala (Girona), 14–20 October 2012

November 2012:

• “Gene Regulation: from DNA Sequence to Nuclear Structure”. 14-16 November 2012, Athens, Greece. (The closing conference of the FP7 InteGeR Marie Curie ITN, www.integer-itn.eu).

December 2012:

• "Genome Mechanics at the Nuclear Scale". Lorentz Center, Leiden. 10-14 December, 2012.

Conferences & Schools - 2011

January 2011:

• "Histone Code: Fact or Fiction?", Keystone Conference, January 10 - 15, 2011, Midway, Utah. (Application deadline 16 September 2010).
• "SysBio2011: From Molecules To Function", Joint FEBS/SystemsX Advanced Lecture Course. February 26 - March 4, 2011, Innsbruck, Austria

March 2011:

• Stochastic Modeling in Biology Tutorial, NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, March 16-18, 2011 (Application deadline December 16, 2010)

April 2011:

• "Chromatin structure, organization and dynamics", EMBO Workshop. 9 - 13 April 2011, Prague, Czech Republic. (Application deadline: January 31, 2011)
• Epigenetics World Congress, Boston, April 28, 2011

May 2011:

• "In silico Systems Biology: Network Reconstruction, Analysis and Network-based Modelling", FEBS hands-on training course. May 23-26, 2011, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. (Registration Deadline: 1st March 2011).

June 2011:

• "Chromatin and Epigenetics", EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, June 1-5, 2011
• "From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology" (CBSB). June 6-8, 2010  Traverse City, Michigan. (Registration deadline April 1, 2011).
• Physics and Biological Systems. June 14-17, 2011, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France
• International Workshop on Mathematical Biology, Casablanca, Morocco. June 20 - June 24, 2011
• Basel Computational Biology Conference "Multiscale Modeling", June 23-24, 2011, Congress Center Basel.
• 4th Berlin Summer Meeting "Computational and Experimental Molecular Biology", June 23-25, Berlin, Germany
• 36th FEBS Congress "Biochemistry for tomorrow's medicine". Torino (Turin), Italy. 25 - 30 June, 2011
• 8th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, and Annual Meeting of The Society for Mathematical Biology, Krakow, June 28 - July 2, 2011. (Registration deadline: June 17, 2011).

July 2011:

• "Dynamic DNA Packaging across Kingdoms: Chromatin & Beyond". July 5-8, 2011, Pacific Grove, California. (Abstract Deadline:  April 4, 2011).
• "From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology", (CBSB11), International Workshop. July 20-22, 2011. Juelich, Germany. (Abstarct Deadline: June 15th, 2011).
• Summer Symposium on Transcriptional Dynamics, Evolution, and Systems Biology. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, July 22-24, 2011. (Abstract submission dedline June 6, 2011).

August 2011:

• Oeiras Summer Schools in Evolutionary Biology, "Genome Biology and Evolution", August 1 - 19, 2011, Oeiras,
  Portugal. (Registration deadline June 15; fellowships available).
• "From beads on a string to the pearls of regulation: the structure and dynamics of chromatin". A joint Biochemical Society / Wellcome Trust conference. 3-4 August 2011. Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. (Abstract submission deadline: 1 June 2011).
• ECAL 2011, European Conference on Artificial Life, 8-12 August 2011, Paris, France. (Paper submission deadline: 6 April 2011).
• qBio Conference and Summer School on Cellular Information Processing, Santa Fe, NM, August 10-14, 2011.
• "Biotransformations 2011", Summer School, Bad Herrenalb, Germany, August 22-25, 2011. (Application deadline: May 31, 2011).
• 8th European Biophysics Congress. August 23-27, 2011, Budapest, Hungary
• International Conference on Systems Biology, ICSB 2011, August 28th - September 1st, 2011, Heidelberg/Mannheim. (Deadline for submission of oral presentations: May 16, 2011).
• International Chromosome Conference 2011. Aug 29th - September 2nd, 2011. Manchester, UK. (Abstract submission deadline is 1st June 2011).

September 2011:

• "Thermodynamics 2011", September 1-3, 2011, Athens, Greece. (Abstract deadline: 30 March 2011).
• Workshop on Systems Biology, 2nd Baltic Autumn School. 5-9 September 2011, Lübeck, Germany (Registration deadline 15th July).
• "Epigenetics Europe 2011", Munich, Germany, 8-9 September, 2011. (Submission deadline: June 27, 2011)
• "DNA search: from biophysics to cell biology", September 11-14, 2011, Safed, Israel.
• International Symposium "Chromatin Changes in Differentiation and Malignancies", September 12-14, 2011, Gießen, Germany. (Registration deadline: July 31st 2011).
• Spetses Summer School "Chromatin and Systems Biology", Spetses Island, Greece, 17 - 23 September 2011
• "Quantitative Methods in Gene Regulation", 22-23 September 2011, Institute of Physics, London, UK. (Abstract submission deadline: 20 April 2011).

October 2011:

• 4th Joint RECOMB Conference on Regulatory Genomics, Systems Biology, and DREAM Challenges. October 14-19 in Barcelona, Spain. (Full-length paper submission deadline: July 15, 2011).
• IUPAB 17th International Biophysics Congress. October 30 - November 3, 2011, Beijing, China

November 2011:

• "2nd Conference on Systems Biology and New Sequencing Techniques" (2-4 November), preceded by Introductory Lectures on "Quantitative Approaches to Biological Problems" (31 October - 1 November), Trieste, Italy. Application deadline: 20th September, 2011.
• Functional Genomics and Systems Biology 2011. 29 November-1 December 2011, Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. (Abstract deadline: 3 October 2011  |  Registration deadline: 17 October 2011).

2012:

• Gordon Research Conference "Chromatin Structure and Function". Lucca, Italy. 6-11 May. (Application deadline: April 8, 2012).