Author: Charles Tapley Hoyt

Executive Committee 2024 Election Winners

As announced at the Annual General Meeting earlier this week, we would like to congratulate the following three individuals who have been elected by members of the International Society for Biocuration to serve on the society’s Executive Committee from 2024:

  1. M. Victoria Nugnes (University of Padua)
  2. Sonia Balyan (Indian Biological Data Centre)
  3. Peter Uetz (Virginia Commonwealth University)

We would also like to thank the election officer, Harry Caufield, and the nominating committee for making this election run smoothly:

  1. Sabrina Toro (Chair)
  2. Pascale Gaudet
  3. Silvio Tosatto
  4. Saurabh Raghuvanshi
  5. Raja Mazumder

More information on the Executive Committee can be found here.

Alliance of Genome Resources Webinar – An Introduction to the Alliance

Carol Bult (0000-0001-9433-210X) will present An Introduction to the Alliance on September 19th, 2024. This will cover searching the Alliance, gene pages, and disease pages and will include a Q & A session. This is the first in an ongoing series.

Register by September 18 to receive the Zoom URL. You can find the registration link here: https://www.alliancegenome.org/news/webinar-an-introduction-to-the-alliance

Announcement for the 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM)

The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday, October 29th, 2024 along with presentations by our two biocurator career award winners, Sushma Naithani and Maria Victoria Nugnes.

Time:

  • 3:00–5:00 pm CET (Central European)
  • 2:00–4:00 pm GMT (British)
  • 10:00 am–12:00 pm EST (Eastern)
  • 8:00–10:00 am PST (Pacific)

Note that daylight savings begins in Europe/UK on October 27th, 2024 and daylight savings begins on November 3rd, 2024 in the USA, so there’s a slightly different offset than usual. All canonical times for this event are based on European time!

Schedule (in CET):

This meeting will be recorded, by attending the meeting you are agreeing to be recorded. The recording will be available on the ISB website after the meeting.

2025 Applications for Travel Fellowships

Submit applications using the Travel Fellowship Application Form

Application deadline extended until 5:00 PM Eastern Time November 25th, 2024

There are 1 in-person (low-income country only) and 5 virtual awards remaining.

Applications are open until 5:00 PM Eastern Time, October 31st, 2024.

For the 2025 conference in Kansas City, the ISB will offer 4 In-Person Travel Fellowships covering up to 2,500 CHF in costs. The ISB will also offer 5 Virtual Travel Fellowships covering the the cost of early bird member or non-member virtual registration for the conference.

The award notification will be sent via email at least 3 months before the conference will take place.