Abstract submission

Update:

Due to change of the conference format to a hybrid conference we are working towards an attractive in-person and online program. The poster session will be held online only and made available to both in-person and online participants. We are still working on details but most likely will expect poster presenters to upload a PDF of their poster, maybe a short video presentation and be available for a Q&A session. Be sure to send in your poster abstract as this provides a very nice opportunity to showcase your work to a large community of bioinformaticians and systems biologists!

You can submit an abstract for an oral presentation in one of the sessions or for a poster or demo presentation.

Submission deadlines

Submission for oral & highlight presentations: 15 February 2020, 23h59 --> Closed
Abstract submission for posters & demos: new date: 2 October 2020, 23h59 --> Closed

Highlight presentations

New during the conference this year are highlight presentations. For highlight presentations we invite people to submit an abstract that relates to work that has been published in a peer-reviewed journal since January 1st 2019. Based on these, people will be given the opportunity to present their work in one of the parallel sessions in a 15 + 5 minute presentation & questions time slot.

Submission topics

Below you can find the list of topics for which you can submit your abstract:

Topic	Description/keywords
Single cell biology	Single-cell RNAseq, Chip-seq, DNA-seq
Genome regulation	eQTL, 3D genome organization, transcriptional regulation, epigenetics, modelling of regulatory networks
Comparative genomics and population genetics	QTL, phylogenetics, Orthologs, gene order, genome assembly and organization, evolutionary analyses, modelling evolution
3D bioinformatics and functional prediction	Sequence-Structure-Function relationship, molecular modelling, functional prediction
Metabolism	Genome-scale metabolic modelling, Constraint-based modelling, dynamic modelling, metabolic engineering
Immune bioinformatics & systems biology	Immune cell diversity, single-cell immune profiling, modelling immune response, immune interaction / signaling networks
Precision medicine	Clinical decision support systems; Detection and annotation of genomic variants, clinical relevance, GWAS
Microbial (meta)genomics & evolution	Agricultural, biotech, human microbiome, antibiotic resistance, modelling microbial evolution
Machine learning & AI	Machine learning algorithms; method development
Biological data visualization	Data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology
Biophysics of living cells
Metabolomics (NMC)	Biostatistics, metabolomics data analysis, “omics” data integration, chemometrics
ELIXIR-NL: Education	MOOC, FAIR training, Training for researchers (e.g. multi omics, machine learning, data stewardship)
ELIXIR-NL: FAIR tools & resources	Open Software, Linked Data applications, FAIR by design, Cloud solutions
ELIXIR-NL: Data integration	Big data, data models, standardization, ontologies

Submissions about services and infrastructure for researchers in the life sciences are also welcome!

Depending on the number of submissions for topics, other topics might be added, or topics can be merged. Submissions might move to other topics, subject to considerations of the Programme committee.

Abstracts will be reviewed by the BioSB 2020 Programme committee. You will receive a notification by e-mail.

Submission procedure

You can submit your abstract via EasyChair. If you do not already have an account, you will be prompted to create one the first time you visit EasyChair.

You can indicate if you would like to present your abstract as a:

oral presentation only
oral presentation if accepted, otherwise poster
highlight presentation only
highlight presentation if accepted, otherwise poster
as a poster only
as a software demo (poster + demo)

NB:

Please also provide the full abstract in the “Abstract” text box and upload the PDF as the paper.
Please add the presenter of the lecture of poster as first author!

Abstract preparation

Please prepare a 1-page abstract in PDF. The format should be:

A4 paper;
use Times Roman (10pt);
two columns separated by 0.5 cm whitespace with margins of 2 cm;
Please specify a title, the authors and their affiliations and e-mail addresses; underline the presenting author!;
If applicable please use the section headings “Introduction”, “Approach”, “Results” and “Discussion”;
A page number should be omitted.

If possible, please use the Word template provided. An example of an abstract can be found here.

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Presentations

Oral presentation

You can submit an abstract to present your work in one of the topical parallel sessions during the conference. The presentation slot will be 15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions.

Highlight presentation

We invite people to submit an abstract that relates to work that has been published in a peer-reviewed journal since January 1st 2019. Based on these, people will be given the opportunity to present their work in one of the parallel sessions in a 15 + 5 minute presentation & questions time slot.

Poster presentation

You can submit an abstract for a poster to be presented during the online poster sessions which are planned on October 27th late afternoon/evening (even poster numbers) and on October 28th just before the lunch break (odd poster numbers). Poster numbers will be determined after the submission deadline.

We are still working on details but most likely will expect poster presenters to upload a PDF of their poster, maybe a short video presentation and be available for a Q&A session.

A prize will be awarded to the best poster presentation.

Demo presentation

You can submit an abstract for a software/tools demonstration during the demo sessions at the conference which will be held simultaneously with the poster sessions.

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