CMSB2022: International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology University of Bucharest Bucharest, Romania, September 14-16, 2022 Conference website https://fmi.unibuc.ro/en/cmsb-2022/ Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmsb2022 Call for papers https://easychair.org/cfp/CMSB2022 Abstract registration deadline April 27, 2022 Submission deadline May 4, 2022 CMSB 2022 - Second Call for Papers The 20th conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB 2022, https://fmi.unibuc.ro/en/cmsb-2022/) 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, interested in the modelling, simulation, analysis, inference, design, and control of biological systems. NEW in the 2nd CfP * Invited speakers confirmed: * Alessandra Carbone (Sorbonne Université, France) * Gabriela Chiosis (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA) * Loïc Paulevé (Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, France) * Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) * Erik Sonnhammer (Stockholm University, Sweden) * Conference proceedings to be published in the LNBI series of Springer Nature. * Best paper award(s) sponsored by Springer Nature with 1000 EUR. List of Topics * formalisms for modelling biological processes; * methods and tools for biological system analysis, modelling and simulation; * frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis, and simulation of biological systems; * high-performance methods for computational systems biology; * identification of biological systems; * applications of machine learning and data analytics in biology; * network modelling, analysis, inference; * automated parameter and model synthesis; * model integration and biological databases; * multi-scale modelling and analysis methods; * design, analysis, and verification methods for synthetic biology; * methods for biomolecular computing and engineered molecular devices; * data-based approaches for systems and synthetic biology; * optimality and control of biological systems; * modelling, analysis and control of microbial communities. Types of contributions to CMSB 2022 * REGULAR papers should describe original work that has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. Accepted regular papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings in the Springer LNBI series. Papers in this category should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNBI style (including main figures and tables, excluding references and possible appendices). * TOOL papers should present new tools or public websites, new tool components or novel extensions to existing tools or websites supporting biological system modelling, analysis, simulation, or similar. Submissions must include information on methods, tool availability, and selected application results. They should be original and not previously published in a similar form. Accepted tool papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings in the Springer LNBI series. Papers in this category should have 4-6 pages in the Springer LNBI style (including main figures and tables, excluding references and possible appendices). * POSTERS: Extended abstracts should be submitted to propose poster presentation of original unpublished work, or of major results published or accepted in the last year in a high-quality journal or conference. The abstracts should be submitted in Springer LNBI style and should not exceed 4 pages all included. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited for presentation in a poster sessions and/or for flash presentations. Poster submissions will not be included in the Springer LNBI proceedings. * HIGHLIGHT TALKS: Highlight talk proposals should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract, for possible oral presentation without publication of related material in the conference proceedings. We particularly welcome submission of recently published work. Submitted abstracts summarising the results and their relevance should not exceed 2 pages including references. Extended abstracts will not be included in the Springer LNBI proceedings. The full information for authors on how to prepare and submit their contributions is available at https://fmi.unibuc.ro/en/cmsb-2022/cmsb-2022-call/. Committees Program Committee * Alessandro Abate<https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/alessandro.abate/> – University of Oxford (UK) * Paolo Ballarini<https://sites.google.com/site/pballarini/> – Centrale Supélec (France) * Daniela Besozzi<https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-besozzi-3370868/> – University of Milan Bicocca (Italy) * Luca Cardelli<http://www.lucacardelli.name/> – University of Oxford (UK) * Milan Češka<https://www.fit.vut.cz/person/ceskam/.cs> – Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic) * Eugenio Cinquemani<https://team.inria.fr/ibis/eugenio-cinquemani/> – Inria Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes (France) * Eugen Czeizler<https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenczeizler/?originalSubdomain=fi> – University of Helsinki (Finland) * Franck Delaplace<https://www.ibisc.univ-evry.fr/~delapla/> – Université Paris-Saclay (France) * Jerome Feret<http://www.di.ens.fr/~feret> – Inria Paris (France) * Clémence Frioux<https://cfrioux.github.io/> – Inria Bordeaux (France) * Ashutosh Gupta<https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashutosh-gupta-3b7a63141/> – IIT Bombay (India) * Monika Heiner<https://www-dssz.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/DSSZ/Main/MonikaHeiner> – Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg (Germany) * Jane Hillston<http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jeh> – University of Edinburgh (UK) * Tommaso Mazza<http://bioinformatics.css-mendel.it/> – CSS Mendel (Italy) * Andrzej Mizera<https://satoss.uni.lu/members/andrzej/> – University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) * Jun Pang<https://satoss.uni.lu/members/jun/> – University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) * Nicola Paoletti<https://nicolapaoletti.com/> – University of London (UK) * Loïc Paulevé<https://loicpauleve.name/> – CNRS, LaBRI (France) * Andrei Paun<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrei-Paun> – University of Bucharest, Romania, co-chair * Ion Petre<https://users.utu.fi/ionpet/> – University of Turku, Finland, co-chair * Tatjana Petrov<https://www.tatjanapetrov.info/> – University of Konstanz (Germany) * Ovidiu Radulescu<https://ovidiu-radulescu.yj.fr/> – University of Montpellier France) * Andre Ribeiro<https://sites.google.com/view/andreribeirolab/home> – University of Tampere (Finland) * Maria Rodriguez Martinez<https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=zurich-MRM> – IBM Zürich Research Laboratory (Switzerland) * Olivier Roux<https://olivieroux.wordpress.com/> – École Centrale de Nantes (France) * David Šafránek<https://www.fi.muni.cz/~xsafran1/> – Masaryk University (Czech Republic) * Carolyn Talcott<https://www.sri.com/bios/carolyn-talcott/> – SRI International (USA) * Jing Tang<https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/jing-tang> – University of Helsinki (Finland) * Adelinde Uhrmacher<https://mosi.informatik.uni-rostock.de/team/staff/prof-dr-rer-nat-adelinde-m-uhrmacher/> – University of Rostock (Germany) * Andrea Vandin<http://people.compute.dtu.dk/anvan/> – Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) * Verena Wolf<http://mosi.cs.uni-sb.de/verena.html> – Saarland University (Germany) * Christoph Zechner<https://zechnerlab.wordpress.com/> – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Germany) Organizing committee * David Pacioianu, University of Bucharest, Romania * Andrei Paun<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrei-Paun>, University of Bucharest, Romania (co-chair) * Ion Petre<https://users.utu.fi/ionpet/>, University of Turku, Romania (co-chair) * Nicoleta Siminea, University of Bucharest * Joel Sjöberg, University of Turku, Finland Publication The submissions to CMSB 2022 will be fully peer-reviewed. The accepted (regular and tool) articles will be published in the conference proceedings, in the Springer LNBI series. A special issue of a widely recognized international journal is expected to be organized later based on the conference, subject to separate peer-review. A selection of the best papers will be invited to be extended and submitted to this special issue. Important dates * May 4, 2022: regular and tool paper submission deadline (their abstracts submitted by April 27). * June 10, 2022: acceptance notifications. * June 17, 2021: poster and highlight talk abstract submission deadline. * September 14-16, 2021: conference. Venue The conference will be held in Bucharest (Romania), on-site, hybrid, or online, depending on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to the conference organizers Ion Petre (ion.petre@utu.fi) and Andrei Paun (apaun@fmi.unibuc.ro). -- Prof. Ion Petre Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Turku, Finland https://users.utu.fi/ionpet/ ion.petre@utu.fi