Dear colleagues, It's our pleasure to invite you to Okinawa for a workshop on Qualitative computational modeling for biological networks. The workshop will be held on October 31st, as a satellite to the 2019 ICSB conference: https://www2.aeplan.co.jp/icsb2019/tutorials_satellite.html <https://www2.aeplan.co.jp/icsb2019/tutorials_satellite.html> The program will cover: • Boolean and logical modeling • Petri nets • molecular interaction maps • community standards development and interoperability • model composition and modularity • analytical methods • network inference • model curation and annotation And we can already announce invited talks by: • Marcelle Kaufman (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) • Edda Klipp (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) • Takeyuki Tamura (Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan) Applications are now open for oral presentation based on abstract submission. Call for oral presentations: https://www.easychair.org/cfp/QualMod2019 <https://www.easychair.org/cfp/QualMod2019> Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=qualmod2019 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=qualmod2019> Submissions will be selected after review by the workshop's scientific commitee. Scientific committee: • Tatsuya Akutsu (Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan) • Réka Albert (Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania) • Claudine Chaouiya (Aix-Marseille University, France / Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal) • Thomas Helikar (Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, USA) • Ina Koch (Institute of Computer Science, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany) • Reinhard Laubenbacher (Jackson Laboratory / UConn School of Medicine, Connecticut) • Hiroshi Matsuno (Yamaguchi University, Japan) • Atsushi Mochizuki (Kyoto University, Japan) • Heike Siebert (Berlin Free University, Germany) Key dates: • Submission deadline: July 13th • Notification of Acceptance: July. 31st Workshop registration: As a satellite to ICSB we don't have a separate registration process. All participants must be registered to the main event. • Early bird registration until June 28th. • Late registration till September 20th https://www2.aeplan.co.jp/icsb2019/registration.html <https://www2.aeplan.co.jp/icsb2019/registration.html> Looking forward to meeting you in Okinawa, Adrien Fauré & Denis Thieffry. -------------------------------------------------- Prof. Denis THIEFFRY Ecole Normale Supérieure - Département de Biologie IBENS - UMR ENS - CNRS 8197 - INSERM 1024 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, FRANCE