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the 20<sup>th</sup></span> <span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">
International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#888888">University of Bucharest</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#888888">Bucharest, Romania, September 14-16, 2022</span></span></p>
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<strong style="color:#333333;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">CMSB 2022 - First Call for Papers</strong><br>
<span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">The 20th conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB 2022, </span><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" href="https://fmi.unibuc.ro/en/cmsb-2022/" target="_blank">https://fmi.unibuc.ro/en/cmsb-2022/</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">)
will take place on September 14-16, in Bucharest (Romania), on-site, hybrid, or online, depending on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. CMSB is a well established conference series, whose aim is to bring together researchers from across the biological,
mathematical, computational, and physical sciences,</span><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> </span><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">interested in
the modelling, simulation, analysis, inference, design, and control of biological systems.</span><br>
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<strong style="color:#333333;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">List of Topics</strong></div>
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<li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">formalisms for modelling biological processes;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">methods and tools for biological system analysis, modelling and simulation;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis, and simulation of biological systems;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">high-performance methods for computational systems biology;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">identification of biological systems;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">applications of machine learning and data analytics in biology;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">network modelling, analysis, inference;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">automated parameter and model synthesis;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">model integration and biological databases;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">multi-scale modelling and analysis methods;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">design, analysis, and verification methods for synthetic biology;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">methods for biomolecular computing and engineered molecular devices;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">data-based approaches for systems and synthetic biology;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">optimality and control of biological systems;</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">modelling, analysis and control of microbial communities.</span>
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<strong style="color:#333333;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Committees</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
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</span><strong style="color:#333333;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt">Program Committee (preliminary, to be completed)</strong></div>
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<li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/alessandro.abate/" target="_blank">Alessandro Abate</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
University of Oxford (UK)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://sites.google.com/site/pballarini/" target="_blank">Paolo Ballarini</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
Centrale Supélec (France)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-besozzi-3370868/" target="_blank">Daniela Besozzi</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
University of Milan Bicocca (Italy)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="http://www.lucacardelli.name/" target="_blank">Luca Cardelli</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
University of Oxford (UK)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.fit.vut.cz/person/ceskam/.cs" target="_blank">Milan Češka</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://team.inria.fr/ibis/eugenio-cinquemani/" target="_blank">Eugenio Cinquemani</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
Inria Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes (France)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenczeizler/?originalSubdomain=fi" target="_blank">Eugen Czeizler</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
University of Helsinki (Finland)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="http://www.di.ens.fr/~feret" target="_blank">Jerome Feret</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
Inria Paris (France)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://cfrioux.github.io/" target="_blank">Clémence Frioux</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
Inria Bordeaux (France)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashutosh-gupta-3b7a63141/" target="_blank">Ashutosh Gupta</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
IIT Bombay (India)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www-dssz.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/DSSZ/Main/MonikaHeiner" target="_blank">Monika Heiner</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg (Germany)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jeh" target="_blank">Jane Hillston</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
University of Edinburgh (UK)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="http://bioinformatics.css-mendel.it/" target="_blank">Tommaso Mazza</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
CSS Mendel (Italy)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://satoss.uni.lu/members/jun/" target="_blank">Jun Pang</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://loicpauleve.name/" target="_blank">Loïc Paulevé</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
CNRS, LaBRI (France)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrei-Paun" target="_blank">Andrei Paun</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
University of Bucharest, Romania, co-chair</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://users.utu.fi/ionpet/" target="_blank">Ion Petre</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
University of Turku, Finland, co-chair</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.tatjanapetrov.info/" target="_blank">Tatjana Petrov</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
University of Konstanz (Germany)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=zurich-MRM" target="_blank">Maria Rodriguez Martinez</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
IBM Zürich Research Laboratory (Switzerland)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.fi.muni.cz/~xsafran1/" target="_blank">David Šafránek</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
Masaryk University (Czech Republic)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.sri.com/bios/carolyn-talcott/" target="_blank">Carolyn Talcott</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
SRI International (USA)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/jing-tang" target="_blank">Jing Tang</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
University of Helsinki (Finland)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://mosi.informatik.uni-rostock.de/team/staff/prof-dr-rer-nat-adelinde-m-uhrmacher/" target="_blank">Adelinde Uhrmacher</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
University of Rostock (Germany)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="http://people.compute.dtu.dk/anvan/" target="_blank">Andrea Vandin</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="http://mosi.cs.uni-sb.de/verena.html" target="_blank">Verena Wolf</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
Saarland University (Germany)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://zechnerlab.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Christoph Zechner</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> –
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Germany)</span> </li></ul>
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</span><strong style="color:#333333;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt">Organizing committee</strong></div>
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<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt">David Pacioianu, University of Bucharest, Romania</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrei-Paun" target="_blank">Andrei Paun</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt">,
University of Bucharest, Romania (co-chair)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><a style="background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt" href="https://users.utu.fi/ionpet/" target="_blank">Ion Petre</a><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt">,
University of Turku, Romania (co-chair)</span> </li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt">Nicoleta Siminea, University of Bucharest</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt">Joel Sjöberg, University of Turku, Finland</span>
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</span><strong style="color:#333333;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Publication</strong><br>
<span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">The submissions to CMSB 2022</span><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> </span><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">will
be fully peer-reviewed. The accepted articles will be published in the conference proceedings,</span><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt"> </span><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">expected
to be in the Springer LNCS/LNBI series and to be indexed by ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, and Google Scholar.</span><br>
<span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">A special issue of a widely recognized international journal is expected to be organized after the conference. A selection of the best papers will be invited to be extended and
submitted to this special issue.</span><br>
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<strong style="color:#333333;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Important dates</strong></div>
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<li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">May 4, 2022: regular and tool paper submission</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">June 10, 2022: acceptance notifications</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">June 17, 2021: poster abstract submission</span>
</li><li><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">September 14-16, 2021: conference</span>
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<strong style="color:#333333;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Venue</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt">The conference will be held in </span><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Bucharest (Romania), on-site, hybrid, or
online, depending on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic.</span><br>
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<strong style="color:#333333;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Contact</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><span style="color:black;background-color:white;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 11pt">All questions about submissions should be emailed to the conference organizers Ion Petre (ion.petre@utu.fi) and Andrei Paun (apaun@fmi.unibuc.ro).</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
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