[CPM-SPIRE-L] StringBio 2018: 1st Call for Participation & Abstracts

[Solon P Pissis]

*1st CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*

StringBio 2018
International Workshop on String Algorithms in Bioinformatics
October 25 - 27, 2018. Orlando, FL, USA

http://www.cs.ucf.edu/stringbio2018/index.html

*We are inviting students to submit abstracts to be considered for 15-20 
minute oral presentations.*

Registration deadline: October 1, 2018 (NO registration fee)

A few travel grants may be available for students upon approval of NSF 
support.

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LOCATION
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StringBio will take place at Harris Corporation Engineering Center, 
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.


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SCOPE
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Analyses of biomolecular sequence data, in particular, of data generated 
by high-throughput next-generation sequencing technologies, continue to 
be a rich source of new theoretical challenges for the string algorithms 
research community and necessitate researchers to re-engineer already 
well-established solutions to cope with big data issues. Consequently, 
string algorithms and related data structures are gaining an 
ever-increasing interest as they form the backbone of many current data 
processing tools in genomics. Focused solely on string algorithms in 
bioinformatics, StringBio primarily aims to bring together researchers, 
practitioners, and students, with a different format that is composed of 
short tutorials and research talks. The concise tutorials to be given by 
experienced researchers on foundations of string processing will cover 
related algorithms and data structures from standard to advanced levels. 
These tutorials aim to help students and computer science researchers 
who would like to make a quick start on bioinformatics challenges by 
addressing the basic building blocks and the current state-of-the-art. 
Different from standard conference presentations of already achieved 
progress, the research talks by experts in StringBio will describe 
current and ongoing research studies, which the attendees can join by 
expressing their interests. The talks are expected to provide an 
excellent opportunity, particularly for the beginners in the path to 
their first publications.

We are inviting students to submit abstracts to be considered for 15-20 
minute oral presentations. Abstracts must be submitted by October 1 via 
sending an e-mail to stringbio at gmail.com.


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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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- Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers University


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PROGRAMME
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The programme will consist of two keynote lectures, a series of 
tutorials on string algorithms and their applications in bioinformatics 
given by experienced researchers, and a number of oral presentations 
given by students.


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ORGANIZATION TEAM
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General Chairs

     Sharma V. Thankachan - University of Central Florida, Orlando
     Shibu Yooseph - University of Central Florida, Orlando

Workshop Chairs

     Christina Boucher - University of Florida Gainesville
     Solon P. Pissis - Kings College London, UK
     Oguzhan Kulekci - Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Publicity Chairs

     Alan Kuhnle - University of Florida Gainesville
     Ritu Kundu - King's College London

Local Arrangement Chairs

     Sumit Kumar Jha - University of Central Florida

Webmasters

     Zigeng Wang - University of Connecticut
     Daniel Gibney - University of Central Florida

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Solon P. Pissis

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Algorithms and Data Analysis group
Department of Informatics
King's College London
Bush House, Strand Campus, 30 Aldwych
London WC2B 4BG, UK

Tel:   +44 (0)20 7848 1807 (Office)
        +44 (0)7964 558764  (Mobile)
Skype: solonas13
Email: solon.pissis at kcl.ac.uk
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