We are delighted to invite you and your colleagues to register for VIZBI 2011, the 2nd workshop on ‘Visualizing Biological Data’, to be held at the Broad Institute, Cambridge-MA (USA), March 16-18, 2011.
VIZBI 2011 brings together scientists actively using or developing computational visualization to study a diverse range of biological data. We have assembled a list of high-profile speakers (see end of email) who will review the state-of-the-art and challenges of visualization within their field. VIZBI 2011 also features an ‘art & science’ evening (Thursday) during which we will be joined by medical illustrators, graphic designers, and artists interested in biological visualization. On Saturday, March 19, immediately after the workshop, participants can choose to attend one of a range of tutorials and take part in a hands-on ‘bring-your-own-data’ session.
All workshop participants are encouraged to submit a poster on their work, plus an image for the art & science evening. A limited number of participants will also be offered the opportunity to be part of an authoritative book co-authored with the VIZBI speakers, essentially an expanded version of the Nature Methods focus issue (http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v7/n3s); the book will be the first to comprehensively review this topic and will be distributed by a major scientific publisher.
Please see http://vizbi.org for more information.
We hope you can join us for this exciting event!
We would also be grateful if you consider forwarding this call to colleagues who may be interested.
The VIZBI 2011 chairs:
Seán O’Donoghue, EMBL
Bang Wong, Broad Institute
James Procter, U. Dundee
Larry Hunter, U. Colorado
VIZBI 2011 Speakers (in order of appearance):
Manuel Lima Microsoft, UK. (Keynote: Visual Complexity).
Robert Kuhn, UCSC, USA…
Bradley Bernstein, Harvard, USA.
Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Harvard, USA.
Eric Westhof, U. Strasbourg, France.
John Quackenbush, Harvard, USA.
Yoseph Barash, U. Toronto, Canada.
Tamara Munzner U. British Columbia, Canada. (Keynote: Human-Computer Interfaces).
John Westbrook, Rutgers, USA.
Arthur Olson, Scripps, USA.
Gaël McGill, Harvard Medical School & Digizyme, USA.
Trey Ideker, UCSD, USA.
Anne-Claude Gavin, EMBL, Germany.
Minoru Kanehisa, U. Kyoto, Japan.
Yannis Kalaidzidis,MPI-CBG Dresden, Germany.
Drew Berry, Walter & Eliza Hall, Australia. (Keynote: Communicating science, Visually).
Willy Supatto, U. Paris Diderot, France.
David Shattuck, UCLA, USA.
Rob MacLeod,U. Utah, USA.
Des Higgins, U. College Dublin, Ireland.
Rod Page, U. Glasgow, UK.
Hervé Tettelin, U. Maryland, USA.
Martin Wattenberg & Fernada Viegas, Google, USA. (Keynote: Visual Design)
VIZBI training day topics:
Blender, Cytoscape, Circos, Jalview, Processing, VTK & ParaView.