Conference Chair

Phoebe Chen (Deakin)

National Organization Committee

Phoebe Chen (Chair) (Deakin)
Catherine Abbott (Flinders)
Matthew Bellgard (Murdoch)
Bruno Gaëta (UNSW)
Dominique Gorse (QFAB)
Tim Littlejohn (IBM Australia)
Annette McGrath (AGRF)
Mark Ragan (UQ)
Shoba Ranganathan (Macquarie)

Local Organization Committee

Phoebe Chen (Chair) (Deakin)
Phil Batterham (Melbourne)
Ross Coppel (Monash)
Vladimir Likic (Bio21)
Annette McGrath (AGRF)
Tony Papenfuss (WEHI)

Sponsorship Co-Chairs

Matthew Bellgard
(Bioplatforms Australia)
Tim Littlejohn (IBM Australia)
Mark Ragan (UQ)

Publication Co-Chairs:

Shoba Ranganathan (Macquarie)
Matthew Bellgard (Murdoch)

Overview:

The Bioinformatics Australia 2009 conference will be the fourth national meeting held by the Bioinformatics Australia Society. This annual meeting will showcase Australia’s scientific activity in the key areas of bioinformatics and computational biology. The previous meetings of Bioinformatics Australia were held in Sydney 2006, Brisbane 2007 and Gold Coast 2008 to provide a national forum for both academia and industry researchers.
In addition to the scientific content, this meeting will provide networking opportunities with bioinformatics and biotechnology stakeholders in Australia for students, users and developers of bioinformatics resources as well as ICT and life scientists interested in bioinformatics.

The Bioinformatics Australia 2009 conference will be held concurrently with the AusBiotech 2009 National Conference and sharing events, exhibition and networking space. The conference will include scientific sessions, panel sessions and discussion forum.

Call for abstracts

Participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations for the Bioinformatics Australia 2009 conference, for review. All accepted abstracts will be published in the BA2009 Proceedings.

Oral Presentations are invited in the following six symposium areas:

1. Computational Biology
2. Methods and Tools in Bioinformatics
3. Proteomics and Structural Bioinformatics
4. Comparative Genomics and Evolution
5. Systems Biology, Medical and Agricultural Applications
6. Emerging Areas, including Metabolomics and Immunoinformatics

Poster presentations are invited in all bioinformatics-related topics.

Closing dates for submission of abstracts:

Submission of abstracts via easychair at conference web site.

https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=ba2009

All presenters need to be registered by 5 October 2009 23:59 AEST to be included in the conference proceeding.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are requested to follow to the following guidelines for submission of abstracts.

All abstracts and posters must be in English.

Abstracts should be submitted in one of the following formats: MS Word (preferred), rtf (preferred) or plain ASCII text.

Abstracts submitted in MS Word or rtf format should be written in Arial or Helvetica 12 point font and contain the title in all caps, followed by a blank line and the list of authors with the presenting author underlined and their affiliations. The authors list should use numeric superscripts to designate the affiliation of each of the authors if they come from different organisations.

The abstract should be separated from the heading by a single blank line and should be no longer than 300 words. Bibliographies should not be included in the submission. Please indicate your preference (oral, poster).

Abstracts for all poster and oral presentations will be published in the Proceedings of the Conference.

Bioinformatics Australia Conference Sample Abstract