ISMB 2025: Evolution & Comparative Genomics COSI

ISMB 2025 July 20-24, 2025 Liverpool, UK (in-person and virtual attendance)

The eighth edition of the EvolCompGen session will held on July 21-22, 2025, as part of the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference (ISMB-ECCB 2025), that will take place on July 20-24, 2025 in Liverpool, UK (in-person and virtual attendance).

The COSI calls for paper and abstract submissions on topics of Evolution & Comparative Genomics including phylogeny, phylogenomics, comparative genomics, genome rearrangements, orthology, paralogy, recombination, lateral gene transfer, genome variation, population genomics, comparative epigenomics, epidemiology, cancer evolution genomics, genome annotation.

The goal of the track is to foster exchange and collaborations between developers and users of computational methods in evolution and comparative genomics within the ISCB.

The track will feature a mix of proceedings talks and contributed talks from the submitted abstracts. In addition, there will be a poster session. Talks can be on unpublished work or work published after January 1st 2021, and delivered by speakers at any career stage.

Grants to cover registration fees will be available for presenting students and postdocs. The procedure for application will be communicated to the relevant people in the talk/poster acceptance email.

Paper submission page : https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/call-for-submissions/proceedings Starts : Thursday, December 05, 2024. Deadline : Thursday, January 23, 2025.

Abstract submission page : https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/call-for-submissions/abstracts Starts : Monday, January 20, 2025. Deadline : Thursday, April 17, 2025.

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• Lars Arvestad, COSI co-chair (Stockholm University)
• Edward Braun, Abstract co-chair (University of Florida)
• Christophe Dessimoz (University of Lausanne & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
• Dannie Durand, COSI co-chair (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Nadia El-Mabrouk, (University of Montreal)
• Wataru Iwasaki, (University of Tokyo)
• Katharina Jahn, Abstract co-chair (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
• Alexey Markin, Webinars (Iowa State University, USA)
• Erin Molloy, Area co-chair (University of Maryland, College Park)
• Aida Ouangraoua, Communication and website (University of Sherbrooke)
• Janani Ravi, Communication and website (Michigan State University)
• Celine Scornavacca (University of Montpellier, France)
• Giltae Song, Award co-chair (Pusan National University)
• Maureen Stolzer (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Valeriia Vasylieva, Webinars (University of Sherbrooke)
• Louxin Zhang, Award co-chair (National University of Singapore)

More detailed information could be found at Keydates.

• Call for Abstracts Opens: Monday, January 20, 2025
• Abstracts Submission Deadline (for talks and posters): Thursday, April 17, 2025
• Late Poster Submissions Open: Monday, April 21, 2025
• Talk and/or Poster Acceptance Notifications: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
• Late Poster Submissions Deadline: Thursday, May 15, 2025
• Late Poster Acceptance Notifications: Thursday, May 22, 2025
• Abstract submission page : https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/call-for-submissions/abstracts

• Call for Proceedings Opens: Thursday, December 5, 2024
• Proceedings Submission Deadline: Thursday, January 23, 2025
• Conditional Acceptance Notification: Thursday, March 13, 2025
• Revised Papers Deadline: Thursday, March 27, 2025
• Final Acceptance Notification: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
• Paper submission page : https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/call-for-submissions/proceedings