IEEE Women in Bioinformatics Workshop (WIBI 2025)

February 6-7, 2025
Southern Connecticut State University
School of Business Building
10 Wintergreen Ave, New Haven, CT 06515

Program

Online registration is closed. Walk-in registration available for in-person attendees.
Participation open to all genders.
Virtual attendance available; details emailed after registration.

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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.

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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

Keynote Speakers and Panelists

Tiffani J. Bright

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

María Rodríguez Martínez

María Rodríguez Martínez
Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
Yale School of Medicine

Susan McClatchy

Susan McClatchy
Senior Program Manager, Bioinformatics Education
The Jackson Laboratory

Yulei (Julie) Pang

Yulei (Julie) Pang
Professor in Mathematics
Southern Connecticut State University

April Wei

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

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Important Dates

Paper / Abstract Submission Deadline December 6, 2024
Extended to: December 16, 2024
Acceptance Notification January 10, 2025
Camera Ready Submission January 24, 2025
Extended to: January 31, 2025

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.

Submission are open to all genders.

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.

Paper / Abstract Submissions are now closed.

Camera Ready Submission

Guidelines for oral and poster presentations and instructions for camera ready submissions and completing IEEE copyright form are available here. Deadline: January 31, 2025.

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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 Shcheglova, 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

    Sponsors

    IEEESouthern Connecticut State University - Office of Faculty DevelopmentNASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium

    Parking and Map

    Visitors can park at the Wintergreen Avenue Garage. The event will be held at the School of Business Building.

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    Address

    School of Business Building
    Southern Connecticut State University
    10 Wintergreen Ave, New Haven, CT 06515

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