[Bio-matrix] CFP: BIBE 2007

[BIBE 2007]

(We apologize if you received multiple copies of this CFP.)

Call for Journal Issue for Posters and Best Poster Awards
IEEE 7th Symposium on BioInformatics & BioEngineering
October 14-17, 2007
Medical School Conference Center, Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.cs.gsu.edu/BIBE07/

Call for posters is until 9/30/07. Selected posters will be invited for 
expansions into journal papers in the proposed special issue of IJCIBSB 
- International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics 
and Systems Biology (http://www.inderscience.com/ijcibsb) dedicated to 
the IEEE BIBE'07.

Call for journal issues for poster papers and best poster awards at IEEE 
7th BIBE: Your one-page abstract of your poster  paper should be sent to 
poster-bibe2007 from techie.cs.gsu.edu by September 30, 2007. It will be 
posted on the following conference web link for public  reference:  
http://www.cs.gsu.edu/BIBE07/posters.php

Bioinformatics and Bioengineering are complementary disciplines that 
hold great promise for the advancement of research and development in 
complex biomedical systems, agricultural, environmental, pharmaceutical 
and medical sciences as well as public health, drug designs, genomics 
and so on. The 7th IEEE BIBE provides a common platform for the cross 
fertilization of ideas, to help shape knowledge and scientific 
achievements by bridging these two very important and complementary 
disciplines into an interactive and attractive forum. The 7th IEEE BIBE 
is a large international conference with 7 years of tradition and 
leading reputation.

The synergy of bioinformatics and bioengineering has been well received 
by researchers. This year, the 7th IEEE BIBE has received more than 500 
high-quality full research papers. Each paper was reviewed and ranked by 
at least 3 professors in the program and scientific review committee. As 
a result of the rigorous review process and stringent evaluation, 12% of 
papers has been accepted as full regular research papers. The 200+ 
Professors in the program and scientific review committee have spent 
tremendous amount of time and efforts for this academic event in 
evaluating all submitted papers. The anticipated participation would 
exceed 500 people, most of them from academia, medical and research 
centers. The 7th IEEE BIBE is a large international gathering that is 
aimed to promote synergistic  multidisciplinary research and education 
to solve important but difficult biomedical problems that need both 
expertise in biomedical sciences and engineering.

Major organizers of the 7th IEEE BIBE who hold formal degrees in the 
fields of both engineering and biophysical/biomedical sciences with many 
years of research, teaching and engineering practice experiences 
realized the power and needs of synergistic engineering and biomedical 
research based on their professional experience. They and all other 
organizers are dedicated to promote such inter/multidisciplinary 
research and education. Therefore, the 7th IEEE BIBE has been designed 
to be responsive to the need for synergistic inter/multidisciplinary 
research and education. For that reason, it is the only meeting whose 
components are defined dynamically in response to specific needs of 
largest number of keynote lectures, cutting-edge research tutorial 
lectures, special interest research workshops and special sessions with 
academic supports and contributions from leading scientists at NIH, 
national laboratories and research universities. Each proposal and 
nomination has been reviewed and voted by the 7th IEEE BIBE committee to 
ensure that participants will be benefited significantly from the 
academic event. The symposium is very grateful for the Keynote Lectures 
given by:

Dr.  Keith Dunker       (Indiana University and Purdue University),
Dr. Andy Baxevanis   (National Human Genome Research Institute, National 
Institutes of Health (NIH), United States Department of Health and Human 
Services),
Dr. Mary Qu Yang    (National Human Genome Research Institute, National 
Institutes of Health,U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and 
Oak Ridge, DOE),
Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy     (University of California at Berkeley and Member 
of United States National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of 
Medicine of
United States National Academies),
Dr. John Quackenbush      (Harvard School of Public Health and 
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute),
Dr. Xudong Huang            (Harvard Medical School and Brigham & 
Women's Hospital),
Dr. Yi Pan                          (Georgia State University),
Dr. Jay Steve Loeffler       (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts 
General Hospital),
Dr. Tony Xiaohua Hu        (Drexel University),
Dr. Jun S. Liu                    (Harvard University and Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology).

And the Tutorial Lectures given by:

Dr. Mark Borodovsky            (Georgia Institute of Technology),
Dr. Vladimir N. Uversky       (Indiana University School of Medicine),
Dr. Arif Ghafoor                    (Purdue University, West Lafayette),
Dr. May D. Wang                  (Georgia Institute of Technology and 
Emory University),
Dr. Igor B. Zhulin                  (Oak Ridge National Lab., DOE and 
University of Tennessee),
Dr. David Lightfoot               (Southern Illinois University, 
Carbondale),
Dr. Tian Zheng                       (Columbia University),
Dr. Yehuda Braiman              (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. 
Department of Energy).

The 7th IEEE BIBE brings together top researchers from the United States 
and around the world to exchange research results and address open 
issues in all aspects of
bioinformatics and bioengineering. The symposium hosts a number of 
cutting-edge research workshops in collaboration with the National Human 
Genome Research Institute
(NHGRI) and National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of 
Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Oak Ridge 
National Laboratory, U.S.
Department of Energy, Indiana University, Purdue University, Georgia 
Institute of Technology, Southern Illinois University, University of 
Illinois, University of
Michigan, University of California, University of Massachusetts, Harvard 
Medical School, Harvard University and a number of other national 
laboratories and major
research universities. We are especially grateful for the Cutting-Edge 
Research Workshop Keynote Lectures given by:

Dr. Laura L. Elnitski        (National Human Genome Research Institute, 
National Institutes of Health (NIH), U. S. Department of Health and 
Human Services),
Dr. Brian D. Athey           (University Michigan and National Center 
for Integrative Biomedical Informatics),
Dr. Linda Molnar             (National Cancer Institute, National 
Institutes of Health (NIH), United States Department of Health and Human 
Services),
Dr. Chih-Ming Ho            (University of California at Los Angles and 
Member of United States National Academy of Engineering and Academician of
Academia Sinica).

Once again, welcome to the 7th IEEE BIBE. We encourages participants to 
consider submitting proposals for workshops, special interest research 
sessions and tutorials
in order to ensure that the IEEE BIBE continuously plays the leadership 
role in promoting inter/multidisciplinary research and education in the 
fields. We hope your
experience at the conference center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, 
Massachusetts during October 14-17, 2007 would be pleasant, productive, 
and memorable.

IEEE 7th BIBE organizers / program chairs:

Dr. Hamid R. Arabnia
Program, Award and Steering Committee Co-Chair
Editor-In-Chief of Journal of SUPERCOMPUTING
General Chair and Coordinator of WORLDCOMP
Graduate Director and Distinguished Professor, University of Georgia, 
Athens,  USA

Dr. Yanqing Zhang
Program Co-Chair and Bioinformatics Track Chair
Director of Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics Lab
Editor of Willy Book Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Associate Editor of JCIB, BIOCOMP, and ICAI
Georgia State University, USA

Dr. Michelle M. Zhu
Acting Program Chair
Director of Biocomputing Lab
Editorial board of JCIB
Oak Ridge National Lab, DOE and Southern Illinois University (SIUC), USA

Dr. Jack Y. Yang
General Chair and Coordinator of Committees on the IEEE 7th BIBE
Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA
Editor, IJDMB, IJBRA and Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
Secretary and Executive AE of Editorial Board of JCIB
Co-Chair and Editor of Biocomp, ICAI, CSC, and GEM

Dr. Liqiang Zhang, Publicity Chair
Dr. Yingshu Li, Publicity Chair
Dr. Mary Qu Yang, Scientific Review Committee Chair
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health 
(NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, USA
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge National Lab. 
U.S. Department of Energy, USA
Consulting Editor of IJCIBSB and JCIB
Editor, IJDMB, IJBRA and Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
Editorial Advisory Board of Advances in Chemoinformatics and 
Computational Methods (ACCM) Book Series
Co-Chair and Editor of Biocomp, ICAI, MLMTA, CSC and GEM