VISUALIZING BIOLOGICAL DATA VIZBI

Note that early registration for VIZBI 2017 closes April 21, 23:59 CET. To secure your ticket before prices rise, go to the VIZBI registration page.

This event will feature an exhibit of original artwork inspired by a series of scientific stories. The artwork will be selected from submissions made to the VizbiPlus Challenge, a competition created to encourage local artists to draw from science to produce original, engaging and insightful new work. The event is the result of a new collaboration between the Spunky Bruiser Store and the VIZBI lab from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and CSIRO.

The event will feature a keynote presentation from an internationally recognized scientific artist; the unveiling of winners from a national art and science competition designed to engage the creative community. We aim to make this event the premier hub to connect the scientific and creative communities and bolster these fields by fostering creativity and innovation. VizbiPlus is happening on 12 June 2017 from 5:30 pm -7:30 pm at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

We are excited to share that BioVis 2017 will be part of the ISMB/ECCB 2017 conference held on July 24 in Prague, Czech Republic. The BioVis meetings aim to educate, inspire, and engage bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research and visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualisation. Find out how to participate at: http://biovis.net/2017/cfp_ismb/.

The BioVis and VIZBI meetings are quite complimentary: BioVis
features a full paper track – typical for computer science meetings – while
the VIZBI lacks a paper track, instead having a format more typical for meetings in the life sciences.

We are pleased to announce the complete speaker lineup for VIZBI 2017. These 21 world-leading researchers will showcase visualizations transforming how life scientists view data.

Keynotes: Daniel Keim, Drew Berry, Tamara Munzner. DNA: Christian Stolte, Hector Corrada Bravo, Jim Zheng. RNA: Yue Wan, David Powell, Davis McCarthy. Proteins: Jane Richardson, Alexander Rose, Michael Landsberg. Cells: Brenda Andrews, Sean Humphrey, Lars Juhl Jensen. Tissues: Siobhan Braybrook, John McGhee, Caroline Rae. Populations: Aaron Darling, Elena Naumova, David Raubenheimer.

Some of you may have had difficulties accessing the VIZBI website, due to recent server problems that are now fixed. As a result, we have extended the deadline for early registration to April 21. If you continue to experience difficulties accessing VIZBI.org, please contact us.

Registration for the main conference is closing on 7 April 2017. The conference registration fee includes admission, conference materials, meals, drinks, and coffee breaks. Visit the registration page for more details.

Jane Richardson is a Professor of Biochemistry at the Duke University, USA. She developed the Richardson diagram, ribbon diagram, method of representing the 3D structure of proteins. Together with Prof. David Richardson, they established the Richardson Labs and their goal is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the 3D structures of proteins, including their description, determinants, folding, evolution, and control. This has now been broadened to include RNA structures. Their approaches include structural bioinformatics, macromolecular crystallography, molecular graphics, analysis of structures, and methods development, currently, focused on the improvement of structural accuracy.