Computational Modelling Group

Conference  2nd August 2010 12:05 a.m.  Niagara Falls, NY, U.S.A.

Immunoinformatics and Computational Immunology Workshop (ICIW 2010)

Web page
http://ailab.cs.iastate.edu/iciw2010
Categories
Agents, Bioinformatics, Biomedical, Database, Evolution, Structural biology, Systems biology
Submitter
Richard Edwards

Call for Papers

Immunoinformatics and Computational Immunology Workshop (ICIW 2010)

To be held in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ACM-BCB) (http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2010/), Niagara Falls, NY, U.S.A. August 2-4, 2010 http://ailab.cs.iastate.edu/iciw2010

Naturally emerging or reemerging diseases pose some of the most serious threats to human health. Computational methods are urgently needed for developing new vaccines, therapies, and models to improve our understanding of the immune system, and reliable tools for focusing experimental investigations.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers in computer scientists, computational biologists, structural biologists, virologists, bacteriologists, immunologists, vaccinologists, and systems biologists to share research challenges, research results, methods, and advances in immunoinformatics and computational immunology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Structural Immunoinformatics
  • Epitope analysis and prediction
  • MHC-peptide binding site analysis and prediction
  • Immunoinformatics Databases, Knowledge Bases, Ontologies
  • Computational modeling of immune system
  • Analysis and prediction of minor histocompatibility antigens
  • Predictive models for organ transplantation
  • Immunogenomics
  • Vaccine design
  • Artificial immune systems and other biologically-inspired paradigms
  • Multi-agent based modeling of immune response
  • Allergenicity prediction
  • Gene expression changes in adaptive immune response
  • Comparative approaches to immunology

Important Dates:


  • Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2010
  • Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2010
  • Camera-ready of accepted papers: May 5, 2010
  • Workshop date: August 2, 2010

Author Instructions:


Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Regular papers must be no longer than 10 pages, papers on evolving research and work in progress should be no longer than 5 pages, following the ACM two-column format for conference proceedings (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) All accepted papers will be included in a Workshop Proceedings to be published on line and included with the conference proceedings on the CD. Authors of selected papers will have an opportunity to extend their workshop papers for publication (subject to peer review) in Journal of Immunological Methods and Immunome Research Journal. Papers should be submitted electronically (in PDF form) through “EasyChair” at: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=iciw2010

Organizing committee:


  • Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, USA))
  • Morten Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
  • Yasser EL-Manzalawy (Iowa State University, USA)

Program Committee (Tentative):


  • Katherine Buckley (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • Anne De Groot (URI Institute for Immunology and Informatics, USA)
  • Uri Hershberg (Yale University, USA)
  • Can Kesmir (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
  • Steven Kleinstein (Yale University, USA)
  • Andrzej Kloczkowski (Iowa State University, USA)
  • German Nudelman (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA)
  • Bjoern Peters (La Jolla institute of allergy and immunology, USA)
  • Nikolai Petrovsky (Flinders University, Australia)
  • Natasa Przulj (University of California Irvine, USA)
  • Julia Ponomarenko (University of California, San Diego, USA)
  • Johannes Sollner (Emergentec biodevelopment GmbH, Austria)
  • Changhui Yan (North Dakota State University, USA)
  • Guanglan Zhang (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA)