The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) is happy to announce the 2018 Biocuration award. Next year, the ISB will give the Biocuration career award to a person who has made sustained contributions to the field of biocuration.

Biocuration Career Award

The Biocuration Career Award recognizes biocurators in non-leadership positions who have made sustained contributions to the field of biocuration. The recipient will be required to present a talk at the Biocuration 2018 Conference, with expenses paid by the ISB. The nominations will be reviewed by the ISB Award Committee, comprised of one member of the ISB’s Executive Committee (ISB-EC) and six (6) additional members from the wider biocuration community; these members were nominated by the ISB-EC based on diversity in area of expertise, organization type, role, and geographic location.

 Who can nominate and/or be nominated?

• Any currently active ISB member may nominate anyone in the field of biocuration, whether the potential nominee is a member of ISB or not.
• Members of the ISB can make no more than 1 nomination per award.
•  Those who hold Principal Investigator or Group Leader positions are not eligible for the Biocuration Career Award.
• Current members of the Executive Committee or the ISB Award Committee are not eligible for the awards.
• Self-nominations will not be considered.

 How to submit your nomination:

• Nominations should be sent via email to the award committee at intsocbio@gmail.com with the subject line “Biocuration Award Nominations”.
• The nomination email should contain the following fields:
  • Nominator details (name, e-mail and affiliation, member of ISB);
  • Nominee details (name, e-mail and affiliation);
  • Short list of scholarly contributions (a maximum of 50 words);
  • Brief description of why you are recommending this person (a maximum of 350 words).
  • The recipient of the award will be invited to give a presentation at the upcoming International Biocuration Conference, in Shanghai, China, from 08-11 April 2018, with all expenses paid by the ISB.

Deadline for submitting nominations: 15 December 2017

Dear Colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the International Society for Biocuration would like to once again invite tenders to host the 12th International Biocuration Conference during the Northern Spring or Summer of 2019.

Individuals and organizations interested in applying may do so by sending a proposal to the ISB Executive Committee (intsocbio@gmail.com) on or before August 31,  2017.

The successful bidder will be notified by October 1,  2017. The ISB Executive Committee will publicly announce the selected organization or individuals during the 11th International Biocuration Conference, to be held in Shanghai, China in April, 2018.

Format:  

Proposals should be short; length should not exceed one side of an A4 or US letter size sheet, using 11 point font.

The proposal should contain:

• The name and institution of the local organizer
• Details of the proposed venue for up to 350 participants
• The range of dates available for the conference
• A brief outline of a strategic plan to attract a broad range of participants from the Biocuration community
• As fair gender representation is positively encouraged by the ISB; we would also like to know how the applicant intends to promote this.

In a continued effort to bring our meeting to curators in all geographic regions, we strongly encourage ISB members to put forward proposals to bring the ISB meeting to your region once again, or for the first time! Based on ISB meeting region rotation, for ISB 2019 we are encouraging a European location, but will also consider other locations.

REGIONS ROTATION:

Asia and Australasia

Europe

North America

This Call for Applications is also available on the ISB website at http://www.biocuration.org

For more information about the ISB and our previous conferences, please visit: http://www.biocuration.org

We look forward to hearing from you!

Your colleagues at the ISB Executive Committee.