Connectionists: Call for Participation -- IEEE BIBM-LncRNA'21; Limited Workshop Fellowships still available

[Donald Adjeroh]

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The program for the 2021 IEEE BIBM LncRNA Workshop is now available.

Please check the workshop webpage at:
http://community.wvu.edu/~daadjeroh/workshops/LNCRNA2021/


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Highlights:

We have an exciting array of speakers for the workshop -- both In-Person presenters in Dubai, UAE, and online/remote presenters !!

4 Keynotes:

  *   George A Calin<https://faculty.mdanderson.org/profiles/george_calin.html>, MD, PhD,  MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA  (online)

  *   Jeffrey Loeb<https://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/departments/academic-departments/neurology-rehabilitation/molecular-translational-lab/>, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA  (In-person)
  *   Thomas Derrien<https://thomas-derrien.netlify.app/>, MD, PhD, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France (online)
  *   Nadya Dimitrova<https://dimitrovalab.yale.edu/people>, Ph.D, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA  (online)


2 Plenary Talks:

  *   Christopher E. Mason<http://www.masonlab.net/>, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA (online)

  *   Isidore Rigoutsos<https://cm.jefferson.edu/staff-members/isidore-rigoutsos/>, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA  (online)
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4 Invited Speakers:

  *   Tatiana Shkurat<https://sfedu.ru/www/stat_pages22.show?p=RR/per_eng/D&params=(p_per_id=%3E607)>, ScD, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia Federation (in-person)
  *   Ivan Martinez<https://directory.hsc.wvu.edu/Profile/38314>, PhD, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA  (in-person)
  *   Ekaterina Derevyanchuk<http://niib.sfedu.ru/personnel/derevyanchuk-eg>, PhD, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia Federation  (in-person)
  *   Ranjan Perer<https://www.hopkinsallchildrens.org/ACH-News/General-News/Johns-Hopkins-All-Children-s-Scientist-Makes-Key-C>, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA  (online)


One "round-table" panel of experts in the field

Presentation of accepted papers

Limited Travel Fellowships still available !!


We are also organizing a journal special issue based on the LncRNA Workshop for publication in MDPI Non-Coding RNA.


See our website: BIBM- LncRNA'2021:
https://community.wvu.edu/~daadjeroh/workshops/LNCRNA2021/


More details below ....

The IEEE BIBM 2021 Workshop on Long Non-Coding RNAs: Mechanism, Function, and Computational Analysis (BIBM-LncRNA)  will be held in conjunction with the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2021), Dec. 9 - 12, 2021.

Though the BIBM conference will be virtual/online, the LncRNA workshop will be held in a mixed mode -- both virtual/remote and face-to-face in Dubai, UAE.

BIBM-LncRNA'2021 will be held on Dec 11 and Dec 12, 2021.
Please see the website for the program schedule and speakers:

BIBM-LncRNA'2021:
https://community.wvu.edu/~daadjeroh/workshops/LNCRNA2021/

IEEE BIBM 2021:  https://ieeebibm.org/BIBM2021/


Fellowships:
Funds are available for limited fellowships to support the participation of students, and of researchers from underrepresented minority groups in the workshop.

We aim at supporting at least one author for each accepted paper, depending on number of papers, and on availability of funds.

Please apply on or before Dec. 5, 2021.


Journal Special Issue:
Authors of selected submissions will be invited to extend their papers for submission for review and possible publication in a special issue of the journal -- Non-Coding RNA. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ncrna


Important Dates:
Dec. 5, 2021: Deadline for Workshop Fellowship application
Dec 9-12, 2021: IEEE BIBM conference and workshops
Dec: 11-12, BIBM-LncRNA Workshop


BIBM-LncRNA'21 Workshop home page:
https://community.wvu.edu/~daadjeroh/workshops/LNCRNA2021/

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