The 2013 posters are at http://vizbi.org/Posters/2013. For the Wednesday 6pm Breakout session, participants can propose and vote for topics at http://bit.ly/vizbi2013breakouts (you’ll need to log in with a Google ID). For Twitter please use the ‘#vizbi’ hashtag; we encourage participants to upload photos from VIZBI to Flickr and use the tag ‘vizbi’ – they will appear at http://vizbi.org/2013/Photos/.
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Thursday, March 21st, 2013VIZBI 2013 Keynote Speaker – Sara Irina Fabrikant
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
VIZBI 2013 first keynote speaker will be Dr. Sara Irina Fabrikant. She is currently an Associate Professor of Geography and head of the Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) group in the GIScience Center at the Geography Department of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research and teaching interests lie in geographic information visualization and visual analytics (geovis), GIScience and cognition, graphical user interface design and evaluation, including dynamic cartography.
She was awarded a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship to study Geographic Information Science for one academic year at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1993. She is the current elected chair of the International Cartographic Association’s Cognitive Visualization Commission. She publishes in a variety of GIScience/geovis related journals and is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Cartographica, Cartographic Perspectives, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, Journal of Spatial Information Science, Revue Internationale de Géomatique, and Transactions in GIS, in addition to her Program Committee memberships for various international GIScience/geovis related conferences (e.g., GIScience, COSIT, InfoVis (UK), etc.). She has been the Program Committee Chair of the GIScience 2010 conference. She has made various presentations at national and international professional meetings, including invited keynotes and other lectures at universities in North America, Europe, Asia, and New Zealand. Other service includes memberships of the Association of American Geographers, the International Cartographic Association’s Commission on Geovisualization, the North American Cartographic Information Society, and the Swiss Society of Cartography.
VIZBI 2013 registration closes soon
Saturday, March 16th, 2013A heads-up that conference registration and one-day registration will close Sunday, 17 March, at 11:59 pm EST. However, registration for virtual participation will remain open throughout the meeting.
VIZBI 2013 Art & Biology Keynote Address – Felice Frankel
Friday, March 15th, 2013
This year’s Art & Biology keynote address will be delivered by Felice Frankel, a renowned science photographer and a researcher in the Center for Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The CSIRO-sponsored outreach keynote titled “Communicating Science Visually” will also be simulcast live to Melbourne, Australia as part of the CSIRO workshops on “Effective Visualisation for Science” and “Bioinformatics Focus on Analytical Methods”.
Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Felice’s images have been published in over 200 journal articles and/or covers and various other publications for general audiences such as National Geographic, Nature, Science, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Materials Today, PNAS, Newsweek, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, and New Scientist among others. Felice foundered the IMAGE AND MEANING workshops and conferences, which promote public understanding of science through visual expression. She was principal investigator of the National Science Foundation-funded program, Picturing to Learn, which studies how visual representations aid in learning. She and her work have been often profiled in the mainstream press, and she exhibits throughout the United States and in Europe. Her limited edition photographs are included in a number of corporate and private collections.
VIZBI 2013 Tutor Spotlight – Graham Johnson’s uPy Tutorial
Thursday, March 14th, 2013Graham Johnson is an outstanding medical illustrator, animator and visualisation expert with over 15 years of professional experience. He holds a masters degree in Medical and Scientific Illustration from the John Hopkins School of Medicine and a PhD in Biophysics from the Scripps Research Institute. He illustrated the textbook Cell Biology (written by Pollard and Earnshaw) and has created numerous scientific visuals ranging from journal covers to pedagogic animations and game designs. He currently works at the UCSF as a qb3@UCSF Faculty Fellow. His visuals have won numerous prizes including the best video at the 2011 NSF International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge as well as the best poster at VIZBI 2012. He was a speaker at the VIZBI 2012 meeting where he spoke about the challenges of visualizing “mesoscale” data and the application of uPy and autoFill frameworks (the video can be viewed here). As part of this year’s tutorial series, Graham will give an introduction on uPy (ubiquitous Python API), a system that facilitates interaction with molecular graphics software with animation systems such as Maya, Cinema 4D and Blender.
Autodesk Award for Art & Biology Poster
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013Autodesk have offered a free Maya license for the best Art & Biology poster at VIZBI 2013. Normally retailing for $3,675, Maya is widely-used for creating interactive 3D applications, video games, animated film, TV series, and visual effects. This very generous prize is offered to participants from academics and industry alike, but cannot be resold.
Each participant can upload one scientific poster and one artistically-inspired ’Art & Biology’ poster. The award for best poster in each category will be decided by popular vote. Participants are asked to judge scientific posters based on how well they communicate work of significant biological insight or importance; the best scientific poster will be awarded the NVIDIA prize. By contrast, the criteria for assessing Art & Biology posters are subjective, so the Autodesk Award will likely go to a poster that is visually compelling and original – it may help to see Art & Biology posters from previous VIZBI meetings. Further details on poster submission and upload are here.
To allow extra time for submissions for this award, we have extended the deadline for upload of Art & Biology posters only until midnight PST, March 17 .
VIZBI 2013 Tutor Spotlight – Drew Berry
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
Drew Berry is a cell biologist and biomedical animator at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) in Melbourne, Australia. He is best known for creating scientifically accurate and visually stunning biological animations that shed light on cellular and molecular processes and enlighten both researchers and the scientifically curious. His work has earned him international recognition including an Emmy (2005) and a BAFTA (2004). In 2010 he was awarded a Macarthur Fellowship. Drew Berry’s animations have been exhibited at such prestigious venues as MoMA and the Guggenheim. More recently, he has won widespread acclaim for his work on the video clip for Björk’s track “Hollow” from her app-based Biophilia album. He was a VIZBI 2011 keynote speaker and this year he will be running a tutorial on how he uses key features of Maya software to produce stunning animations. His VIZBI 2011 keynote address can be viewed here.
VIZBI 2013 update
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013Poster upload for VIZBI 2013 is now open – to upload a poster, you need to first register for the VIZBI conference, and you will receive details on the upload process with your confirmation email. To be included in the VIZBI conference, your contribution needs to be uploaded on or before 12 March 2013.
We have also finalized the VIZBI 2013 tutorial program; each tutorial now has a brief description, with links to further details. We have been fortunate to get some very high profile tutors.
VIZBI 2013 early registration ends Friday, Feb 8
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013A short reminder that early registration for VIZBI 2013 closes this Friday, Feb 8. Space is limited so register soon to ensure a place.
This year’s program focuses on new and emerging fields, and features contributions from some very high profile scientists, both for the 21 invited talks, as well as the 12 tutorials on March 19, one day prior to the conference.
If you are interesting in promoting your organization or professional society, a range of sponsorship options are also available.
Virtual posters at VIZBI 2013
Thursday, January 17th, 2013If you cannot join us in Cambridge, USA, you have the option of virtual registration, which allows participation via streaming video and chat. At VIZBI 2013, for the first time, virtual participants can now submit a poster along with a 60 second video presentation, which will be screened during one of the fast-forward sessions (details here).
VIZBI 2013 registration now open
Thursday, January 17th, 2013Early registration for VIZBI 2013 is open until February 8, 2013 – after then, an additional registration charge of $100 will be added for all participants. Poster upload closes March 12, 2013.
Free InfoVis course
Thursday, January 17th, 2013Indiana University is offering a free MOOC (massive open online course) in Information Visualization, starting Jan 22, 2013 – for details see http://ivmooc.cns.iu.edu.
BBSRC/AHRC Workshop on “The challenges of Visualising Biological Data”
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010The BBSRC and the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) wish to invite applications to attend a multi-disciplinary workshop exploring the challenges of visualising increasingly complex and large-scale biological datasets.
The workshop will take place in Bristol (UK) on November 16th and 17th 2010. Applications are due on August 6th at 4 PM.
Full details are on the workshop website.
ISMB Special Session on Network Visualization
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010ISMB 2010 in Boston will feature a special session on visualization of biological networks. The session will focus on the discussion of use cases and standardization of input and output, as well as integration of tools. More background and details about the session are available on the ISMB 2010 website.
VCBM 2010 Poster Deadline Extended
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
The poster submission deadline for the 2nd Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM) has been moved to May 5, 2010.
The workshop will be held in Leipzig, Germany, on July 1-2, 2010 and will address the integration of state-of-the-art visualization and image analysis for application to research in biology and medicine.
VIZBI blog on Twitter, Friendfeed & Facebook
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010If you want to stay up to date on everything VIZBI-related and get news about similar events, start following our Twitter feed: http://www.twitter.com/vizbi or our Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/vizbi, or on Facebook. This is in addition to the VIZBI wiki http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/VIZBI2010.
Visual Computing for Biology & Medicine
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Paper submissions to the 2nd Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM) are still possible until March 8th. Posters can be submitted until April 19th. The workshop will be held in Leipzig, Germany, on July 1-2, 2010. Full details are available on the website: http://www.vcbm.org/2010
VIZBI FriendFeed Group
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010We have opened a VIZBI 2010 group on FriendFeed. Please join and add your own comments about the talks at http://friendfeed.com/vizbi2010.