Call for Talk Abstracts/Papers: 2006 International Workshop on
 Multiscale Biological Imaging, Data Mining and Informatics, Santa
 Barbara, Sept 7-8, 2006
 
 Important dates:
     * June 30 - Talk abstract submission deadline
     * July 15 - Notification of acceptance/rejection
     * July 20 - Poster abstract submission deadline
     * July 20 - Demonstration abstract submission deadline
     * Aug 20 - Early registration deadline
     * Sept 7-8 - Workshop dates
 
 Conference Web site: http://www.bioimageinformatics.org/2006
 
 Talk abstracts and papers are solicited for the 2006 Workshop on
 Multiscale Biological Imaging, Data Mining and Informatics, Santa
 Barbara, Sept 7-8, 2006. This workshop aims at bringing together
 interdisciplinary researchers to identify problems and present answers
 to multiscale bioimage data mining and informatics using cutting edge
 imaging technology (including fluorescence imaging, electron microscopy
 imaging, etc.) and quantitative analysis methods (including image data
 analysis, computer vision, data mining, machine learning, as well as
 other informatics methods). Abstracts for presentations, posters or
 software/hardware demonstrations, related to all aspects of bioimage
 data mining and informatics, are welcome. 
 
 Appropriate topics include but are not limited to:
     * Acquisition of cellular, molecular and other bioimages;
     * Novel bioimaging techniques; novel bioimage data;
     * Bioimage feature measurement, description, extraction, and selection
     * Bioimage registration and comparison
     * Object segmentation and tracking in bioimages
     * Clustering/classification of bioimages or patterns derived from 
bioimages
     * Object/pattern recognition and understanding in bioimages
     * Bioimage ontology and related data mining
     * Bioimage data visualization
     * Other bioimaging related techniques, including transmission, 
compression, storage, database, etc.
     * Tools/software for bioimage data processing and data mining
     * Bioimage related biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine applications, 
e.g. 3D protein structure reconstruction, gene regulatory network/pathway 
modeling, etc.
     * Joint analysis using both bioimages and other data (e.g. sequences, 
microarray, protein interaction, etc.)
     * Other bioinformatics problems where advanced imaging and image analysis 
methods can be applied.
 
 People who intends to give a talk should submit an abstract of 1 to 2
 pages no later than June 30, 2006. The abstracts will be reviewed and
 the authors will be notified of the results. A selected set of
 submissions will be invited to extend as formal papers edited in a
 special issue in the Open-Access journal BMC Cell Biology. 
 
 Program Committee Members
     * Manfred Auer - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (co-chair)
     * Hanchuan Peng - Howard Hughes Medical Institute (co-chair)
     * Ambuj Singh - University of California, Santa Barbara (co-chair)
     * Xuewen Chen - University of Kansas
     * Wah Chiu - National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Baylor College of 
Medicine
     * Gaudenz Danuser - Scripps Institute
     * Mary Dickinson - Baylor College of Medicine
     * Robert DuBose - Amgen, Inc.
     * Robert Dunkle - Scimagix
     * Christos Faloutsos - Carnegie Mellon University
     * Steven Fisher - University of California, Santa Barbara
     * Ilya Goldberg - National Institute on Aging, NIH
     * Amarnath Gupta - SDSC
     * Bernd Hamann - University of California, Davis
     * David Knowles - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
     * Richard Levenson - Cambridge
       Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRI)
     * Chung-sheng Li - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
     * Fuhui Long - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
     * B.S. Manjunath - University of California, Santa Barbara
     * May Wang - Georgia Institute of Technology
     * Stephen Wong - Harvard Medical School
 
 More information is available at http://www.bioimageinformatics.org/2006