ICSB 2011

1. Deadline July 1: Submission of Poster Presentations and Standard Registration

For those of you being interested to present a poster at this year’s ICSB, don’t miss the deadline for submission of abstracts for poster presentations on July 1, 2011! Posters will be sorted according to the 20 topics of the conference and its parallel sessions, please have a closer look at the corresponding menu on the conference website.
To take advantage of the standard registration fee, please register before July 1, 2011. Late registration fees will apply starting from July 2, 2011.

2. ICSB Schedule: Overview and Detailed Schedule

3. Jim Simons will join the ICSB2011

We proudly announce that another high-ranking speaker has joined the conference. To our great pleasure James H. Simons, secretary and treasurer of The Simons Foundation has accepted the invitation of Prof. Eils to join the conference and make it even more valuable and interesting for our guests. Dr. Simons is Chairman and CEO of Renaissance Technologies LLC. Prior to his financial career, Dr. Simons served as chairman of the Mathematics Department at S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, taught mathematics at M.I.T. and Harvard University, and was a cryptanalyst at the Institute of Defense Analyses in Princeton, N.J. Dr. Simons' scientific work was in the area of geometry and topology, and his most influential work involved the discovery and application of certain measurements, now called Chern-Simons Invariants, which have had wide use, particularly in theoretical physics. James Simons holds a B.S. from M.I.T., a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, and won the American Mathematical Society's Veblen Prize for his work in geometry in 1975. He is a former Chairman of the Stony Brook Foundation and is currently a trustee of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Rockefeller University, M.I.T., the Mathematical Science Research Institute in Berkeley, and the Institute for Advanced Study (source: Simons Foundation). Dr. Simons will give a talk on Monday, August 29, 2011.

4. Workshop and Tutorials

ICSB 2011 will offer you a total of 33 workshops and tutorials accompanying the conference. You will find detailed information on each workshop by clicking at the titles of the workshops and tutorials on the conference homepage, the current schedule is available here.
All events will take place prior and after the conference either at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) or Heidelberg University’s BioQuant Center. Both venues are located on the Heidelberg life science campus at the Neuenheimer Feld in Heidelberg. Bus transportation from Heidelberg to Mannheim and vice versa will be available on Sunday and Thursday. Workshops and tutorials can be booked for a small fee during regular conference registration. If you have already registered and would like to book an additional workshop/tutorial, please send a short mail to isabel.peter@mcon-mannheim.de. Please note that you can join the workshops and tutorials without a registration to the conference.

5. Industry Presentations

In addition to the non-commercial workshops and tutorials, we proudly announce that we will have two industry presentations during the conference. First, we will have a presentation session on Monday evening by Raytest Isotopenmessgeräte GmbH exclusively presenting the ImageStream Cell Analysis System from Amnis. “The system is a next generation instrument that combines the power of microscopy and flow cytometry in a single platform to advance applications in biology, biochemistry, drug discovery, basic biomedical research and diagnostics” (Source: Raytest GmbH).

Moreover, the Nature Publishing Group will present a highly informative and interesting tutorial on the topic: “How to get published” on Wednesday afternoon.

6. Further Information and Updates

To stay tuned with the latest news on the ICSB 2011, please visit the conference website www.icsb-2011.net and follow the regular updates by the organizing team via the conference blog http://icsb2011.blogspot.com or via http://twitter.com/ICSB_2011.

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Heidelberg and Mannheim this summer!

Best regards, on behalf of the ICSB 2011 Organizing Committee,

Roland Eils
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Ulrike Conrad, Jan Eufinger, Angela Oberthür, Klaus-Peter Michel, and Stephanie Werner-Ried (Local Organizing Team)

The ICSB 2011 Organizing Committee: Roland Eils (Chair), Peer Bork, Thomas Höfer, Ursula Klingmüller, Ursula Kummer, and Peter Sorger