<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">The BioVis Interest Group (<a href="http://www.biovis.net">http://www.biovis.net</a>) is organizing a meeting at <b>ISMB in 2016</b>. This meeting brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research.</p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"></p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><b>BioVis@ISMB 2016</b> is co-located with <a href="http://www.iscb.org/ismb2016" rel="noreferrer" target="http://www.iscb.org/ismb2016" style="color:rgb(42,128,185);text-decoration:none">ISMB 2016</a> and will be taking place on July 8 in <a href="http://www.iscb.org/ismb2016-accommodation" rel="noreferrer" target="http://www.iscb.org/ismb2016-accommodation" style="color:rgb(42,128,185);text-decoration:none">Orlando, Florida at the Disney World Resort Swan and Dolphin hotel</a>. The main ISMB 2016 conference will run from July 8 through July 12.</p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"></p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">There are three possible ways to participate in <b>BioVis@ISMB</b>:</p><ol style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">New Research: Participants are invited to submit an abstract describing high-quality original research. Abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee and all accepted abstracts will be included in the poster session. The authors of selected abstracts will be asked to give a brief oral presentation during the SIG meeting.</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Highlights: Participants may submit an abstract describing work published in the previous year as well as additional work undertaken since publication. The program committee will review these abstracts. Additionally, the BioVis SIG program committee may also invite authors of outstanding publications from other venues. The authors of selected abstracts will give an oral presentation during the SIG meeting.</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Posters: We seek work in progress and preliminary results; previously published work from other venues; visualization challenges.</li></ol><p style="margin:0.38rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><br></p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"></p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><b><u>Key Dates for BioVis@ISMB:</u></b></p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">May 3, 2016 - Submission deadline for the Highlights Track and New Research Track</p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">May 17, 2016 - Submission deadline for Poster Track</p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">May 20, 2016 - Notifications for Highlights, New Research, and Posters</p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><br></p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">For more info on <b>BioVis@ISMB</b> see: <a href="http://biovis.net/2016/ismb/" rel="noreferrer" target="http://biovis.net/2016/ismb/" style="color:rgb(42,128,185);text-decoration:none">http://biovis.net/2016/ismb/</a></p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"></p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><b><u><br></u></b></p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><b><u>BioVis is also holding a meeting at IEEE VisWeek in 2016.</u> </b>For more info on <b>BioVis@VIS </b>see:<a href="http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/" rel="noreferrer" target="http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/" style="color:rgb(42,128,185);text-decoration:none">http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/</a></p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"></p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><br></p><p style="margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">General chairs</p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Jan Aerts, KU Leuven, Belgium</li></ul><p style="margin:0.38rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">Paper chairs</p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria</li></ul><p style="margin:0.38rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">Poster chairs</p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA</li></ul><p style="margin:0.38rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">Publication chairs</p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Alexander Lex, University of Utah, USA</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Florin Chelaru, MIT, USA</li></ul><p style="margin:0.38rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">Primer & challenges chair</p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Eamonn Maguire, CERN, Switzerland</li></ul><p style="margin:0.38rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">Highlights chair</p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Julian Heinrich, CSIRO, Australia</li></ul><p style="margin:0.38rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">Data contest chairs</p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Cagatay Turkay, City University, London, UK</li></ul><p style="margin:0.38rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">Design contest chairs</p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Ryo Sakai, KU Leuven, Belgium</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Francis Rowland, EBI, UK</li></ul><p style="margin:0.38rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">Industry and fundraising chair</p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Hector Corrado Bravo, University of Maryland, USA</li></ul><p style="margin:0.38rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">Website chairs</p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Tuan Dang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Anamaria Crisan, University of British Columbia, Canada</li></ul><p style="margin:0.38rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">Publicity chairs</p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Jillian Aurisano, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</li></ul><p style="margin:0.38rem 0px 0px;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px">Steering Committee</p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0.38rem 0px 0px 1.9rem;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15.04px;line-height:21.12px"><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Kay Nieselt, University of Tuebingen, Germany</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands</li><li style="line-height:1.32rem;margin:0px;font-size:0.94rem">Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA (Chair)</li></ul></div>