IEEE Women in Bioinformatics Workshop

Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration

The IEEE Women in Bioinformatics Workshop is an interdisciplinary event that brings together researchers from fields such as computer science, data science, mathematics, statistics, biology, genomics, biotechnology, and chemistry to showcase their work in bioinformatics.

Photo from Women in Bioinformatics 2023

Women Leading the Way

The workshop is organized by women, and the invited speakers are women who are leaders in their respective areas of bioinformatics research. While the focus is on promoting women in the field, abstract submissions and participation in all sessions are open to researchers of all genders, fostering an inclusive and diverse scientific community.

Supporting women working in the bioinformatics discipline

Encouraging more women researchers and students to engage in this research field

Creating interdisciplinary research collaboration opportunities

Career mentoring to support junior researchers and students

Speakers

Susan McClatchy
Senior Program Manager, Bioinformatics Education
The Jackson Laboratory

Tiffani J. Bright
Co-Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education
Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Biomedicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

April Wei
Assistant Professor, Computational Biology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell University

Call for Abstracts

The IEEE Women in Bioinformatics Workshop invites researchers to submit original research in all aspects of bioinformatics or computational biology. Topics can include but are not limited to:

Computational Biology

AI for Computational Biology
Population Genomics
Multi-Omics Data Analysis
Single Cell Sequencing Analysis
Medical Image Processing
Systems Biology and Networks
Infectious Disease Networks and Computational Epidemiology
Protein and RNA Structure Prediction

Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics

Cancer Genomics
Immunoinformatics
Next Generation Sequencing Analysis
Regulatory and Functional Genomics
Metagenomics
Bioinformatics of Microbiomes
Comparative Genomics
Functional Annotation of Non-coding RNAs
Integrative Genomics and Systems Biology

Bioinformatics Education

Innovative Approaches in Bioinformatics Education
Curriculum Development for Bioinformatics
Online and Blended Learning in Bioinformatics
Practical Training and Workshops in Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics for Non-Biologists

Submission Tracks

Full papers should consist of new unpublished work, which is not currently under review by other conferences or journals. Papers should not exceed 8 pages. Full paper authors are expected to give an oral presentation of their work.

Abstracts submissions should present original work and may include preliminary results, work in progress, or proof of concepts. Abstracts are limited to a single page. Authors have the choice to present their abstracts in oral research presentation sessions or during the poster session.

All submissions will be peer reviewed by program committee members and/or external reviewers.

Accepted papers will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

Paper / Abstract Submission

Papers/abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair. If you don’t have an EasyChair account, you will be asked to create one. Submissions must follow IEEE format.

Submission implies willingness of at least one author to register and present at the workshop in-person.

Submit your paper / abstract through EasyChair

Organizers

Program Chairs

Sahar Al Seesi, Southern Connecticut State University
Ellie Duan, Cornell University
Asli Uyar, The Jackson Laboratory

Program Committee Members

Selcan Aydin, The Jackson Laboratory
Marmar Moussa, University of Oklahoma
JiongDong Pang Southern Connecticut State University
Julie Pang, Southern Connecticut State University
Carolyn Paisie, The Jackson Laboratory
Amalia Rusu, Fairfield University
Tatiana Shcjeglova, UCONN Health
Sarah Wojiski, The Jackson Laboratory
Liqun Zhang, University of Rhode Island
Elena Zaslavsky, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Treasurer

Winnie Yu, Southern Connecticut State University

Local Organization Chair

Amal Abd El-Raouf, Southern Connecticit State University

Paper / Abstract Submission Deadline	December 6, 2024
Acceptance Notification	January 10, 2025
Camera Ready Submission	January 24, 2025