Year Conference was held: 2018
Years the Conferences has been held: 18
Disciplines: Computational Biology
Gender Balance/Diversity Statement: None
Registration Cost (US dollars): $500-1500
Total Attendance Cost (US dollars): $2000-$4000
Travel Carbon Footprint (tons of CO2): 3000
Other Carbon Footprint (tons of CO2): 750
Associated Scientific Society/Organization: ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology)
Approx number of Society members (as of 2018): 3400
Approximate Number of Conference Attendees (Exhibitors included): 1500
Geographic Location(s): Athens, Greece
Years held (Annual, Biannual, Triannual): Annual
Host, Funders and Sponsors: Elixir EU(https://elixir-europe.org/), Bioexcel(https://bioexcel.eu/), EMBL-EBI(https://www.ebi.ac.uk/), Cambridge University Press(https://www.cambridge.org/), Oxford University Press(https://global.oup.com/?cc=us), Peer Community Inn(https://peercommunityin.org/), WeGreened.com(https://www.wegreened.com/), GOBLET, Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education & Training (https://www.mygoblet.org/), ISCB, e-Noise(https://e-nios.com/), ISCB student council
Digital or Virtual Options: None
Digital Archives (Recorded talks & slides): Only 1 invited talk (http://eccb18.org/presentations/)
Electronic program dissemination:
On-site Maternity Facilities: None
On-site Childcare Facilities/Services: None
Caregiver Grant: None
Career Development Events and Workshops: None
ECR Promotion Events: ISCB Student Council (https://www.iscbsc.org/) aim to promote the caree development of young computational biologists through their events. The Student Council conducts coordinated ECR events with ISCB-related events (ISMB, ECCB, ASBCB, ISCB-LA), such as the Student Council Symposium (SCS), European Student Council Symposium (ESCS), Student Council Symposium - Latin America (LA-SCS) and Student Council Symposium - Africa (SCS Africa)
Travel Awards for ECRs: Yes (ISCB provides Travel Fellowship funds exclusively for ISCB student and post doctoral members to attend the annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), and APBioNets International Conference on Computational Biology (InCoB). With the exception of PSB which is regularly held the first week of January in Hawaii, these other conferences typically move around geographically each year, and each are separated by several weeks or several months so as not to overlap. If you are a student or post doc presenting a paper or poster at any of these conferences and you need travel support funds to attend the conference please complete the application process as outlined on each of the conference websites (see conference calendar for links to the respective upcoming conference websites). ISCB fellowships to the annual ISMB conference are primarily supported through grant funds from U.S. government agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE), and in some cases the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS). When ISMB is held in conjunction with ECCB additional fellowship funding may be supported through European agencies. As a member society of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), all of ISCBs Society-run annual conferences, ISMB, Rocky, CSHALS, GLBIO, ISCB-Africa, ISCB-Asia, and ISCB-Latin America are also eligible for the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) travel fellowship program supported by a long- term grant from the NIH. The MARC funds are exclusively designated for minority scientists who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents (green card holders). Full information on the MARC funding program can be found on the FASEB website at www.faseb.org. Due to limited funds we regret that it is generally not possible to fund all travel fellowship applicants to the above conferences.)
Code of Conduct: Yes ISCB society has it applies to all conferences (https://www.iscb.org/codeofconduct/file)
Safety Instructions/Apps: None
Keynote Speaker Gender Balance: 4 Men: 3 Women
Speaker Gender Balance: None
Invited Speakers Gender Balance: 2 Men: 1 Woman
Session Chair Gender Balance: 23 Men: 2 Women
Conference Chair Gender Balance: Program Committee: 8 Men: 2 Woman, Conference chairs: 1 Man: 1 Woman, Steering Committee: 8 Men: 1 Woman, Steering Committee: 11 Men: 3 Women
Enviromental Sustainability efforts: None
Public Engagement Events Outreach: None
Sustainability Initiatives/Considerations/Green Strategies/Policies: None
Conference URL: http://eccb18.org/
Other Details/Announcements or Publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6176502/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6329205/