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<br /> <span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <strong>BBCC2023 - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference December 5-7, 2023 - Naples, Italy</strong></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bbcc-meetings.it" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.bbcc-meetings.it</a></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> The Conference will be held in Naples, Italy. We return to making an in-person edition after three years of online editions.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> Six confirmed keynote speakers are already in the Conference Program:</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - Dr. Francesca Di Donato – National Research Council, Pisa, Italy</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - Prof. Pietro Liò – Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - Prof. Andrea Mozzarelli – University of Parma and National Research Council, Pisa, Italy</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - Prof. Michele Scardi – Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - Prof. Ozlem Tastan Bishop – Director of Research Unit in Bioinformatics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - Dr. Anna Vangone – group leader @ Roche, Large Molecule Research – Munich, Germany</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> Deadlines</span></strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> November 6, 2023: deadline for submitting oral presentation and poster/short oral presentation proposals. </span></strong></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;">Please follow the instructions and template file available at the web site under Submit page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbcc-meetings.it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbcc-meetings.it/</a></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;">November 22, 2023: Early Registration deadline</span></strong></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> Contributions accepted to the conference will be eligible for post-conference full articles in Special Issues and Supplements of international journals.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> Conference Topics:</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - Artificial Intelligence applications</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - big data and data science</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - databases of biological information</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - modelling</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - novel and challenging methodologies</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - omics, meta-omics, and multi-omics</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - structural bioinformatics and computational biochemistry</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> - systems biology</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;">Preliminary Program:</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;">– December 4: Round Table on Bioinformatics Teaching in the Italian Academy (in collaboration with ELIXIR-IT Training Platform) – aimed at the orientation of the local community and students of the University "Parthenope"<br /> </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;">– <strong>December 5-6: BBCC2023 - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology International Conference</strong></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> Two full-day program includes oral presentation sessions (invited speakers and selected contributions by participants) and poster sessions.<br /> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;">– December 7: Tutorials</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> Tutorial 1: <strong>R frameworks for single cell data analysis</strong></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;"> Tutorial 2:<strong> Demystifying New-generation Protein Structure Prediction: A Hands-On Tutorial with AlphaFold and Alphamissense</strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Participation in the tutorials is limited. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis with priority given to those registered for the entire conference.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Those interested should notify as soon as possible to: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:bbcc.meetings@gmail.com">bbcc.meetings@gmail.com</a> indicating the tutorial in which they are interested and stating as subject: BBCC2023 tutorial.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Organizing Committee of BBCC2023</span></div>
<br /> <br /> <span class="sig">-- <br /> ___________________________________________________________________<br /> Dr. Angelo Facchiano, PhD<br /> CNR-ISA National Research Council, Institute of Food Sciences<br /> Istituto di Scienze dell'Alimentazione - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche<br /> via Roma 64 - 83100 Avellino - Italy<br /> Tel. +39.0825.299625 +39.0825.299651 - Fax +39.0825.781585<br /> e-mail:<a href="mailto:angelo.facchiano@isa.cnr.it">angelo.facchiano@isa.cnr.it</a><br /> ___________________________________________________________________</span></div>
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