*ECCB 2016 / 15th European Conference on Computational Biology * *3-7 September 2016, *World Forum Convention Center, The Hague, The Netherlands. Conference website: http://www.eccb2016.org *Extended deadline: Call for workshops, SIGs and tutorials - January 22* We have decided to extend the deadline for submitting a proposal for a workshop, SIG workshop or tutorial to* January 22, 2016*! This gives you one more week to work on your proposal! The workshops and tutorials are planned on September 3 and 4, 2016 in the World Forum in The Hague, immediately preceding the ECCB 2016. Don’t miss out on this opportunity! Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/calls/> *Update keynote speakers* We are proud to welcome the following keynote speakers to the ECCB 2016: - *Hans Clevers*, director Research of the Princess Maxima Center for pediatric oncology. Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/speakers/hans-clever/> - *Nuria Lopez­-Bigas, *ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and head of the Biomedical Genomics group of the joint Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics, GRIB (IMIM­UPF) at Barcelona (Spain). Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/speakers/nuria-lopez-bigas/> - *John Marioni, *Group Leader of Computational and Evolutionary Genomics at the EMBL-EBI, Hinxton (UK). Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/speakers/john-marioni/> - *Benedict Paten, *assistant director of the Center for Big Data in Translational Genomics at UC Santa Cruz. Benedict Paten directs the UC Santa Cruz Center for Big Data in Translation Genomics. Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/speakers/benedict-paten/> *Scientific key dates* *Workshops/SIGs/Tutorials* 22 January 2016 submission deadline for workshop/SIG's/ tutorial proposals 10 February 2016 acceptance notification for workshops/SIG's/ tutorials *Proceeding papers, Highlight papers and Application track* 25 January 2016 call for papers, highlight papers and application track open 29 March 2016 submission deadline for papers, highlight papers and application track 23 May 2016 acceptance notification for papers, highlight papers and application track *Posters* 25 January 2016 call for posters open 13 June 2016 submission deadline for posters 14 July 2016 acceptance notification for posters Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/calls/keydates/>