ICBO/FOIS EARLY CAREER SYMPOSIUM

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career scientists who may be interested!

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               EARLY CAREER SYMPOSIUM

               July 25, 2012

               Call for Papers

               International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012)

               Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2012)

               http://purl.org/icbofois2012/

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IMPORTANT DATES:

* April 15, 2012: Deadline for submission of extended abstracts for Early 
Career Symposium.

* May 15, 2012: Notification of acceptance of colloquium submissions.

* June 30, 2012: Deadline for submission of camera-ready copy

* July 25, 2012: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Colloquium (approximately 
1:30pm-6:30pm)

SCOPE OF THE COLLOQUIUM

The ICBO and FOIS 2012 conferences will host a joint Early Career Symposium. 
This event is designed to provide an opportunity for current PhD students 
and postdoctoral researchers to give a short presentation of their research 
with ample time for feedback and mentorship. It will also allow participants 
to network with other early career scientists in ontology and biomedicine. 
While attendance is open to anyone registered for one of the main 
conferences, presenters should be active doctoral students or postdoctoral 
researchers.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Intending participants should submit an extended abstract, which may be a 
description of their current or planned research, an abstract of their PhD 
proposal, or a description of a related issue such as methodology. The 
research should either have a significant ontology component already or a 
plan to utilize ontologies in the future. All topics that fall into the 
scope of the conference are welcome.



Submission is via EasyChair 
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo-2012), according to the 
template provided on the conference web site (up to two pages):

http://www.kr-med.org/icbofois2012/doccons.htm

PRESENTATION

Presentations at the ECS will be given by doctoral or early postdoctoral 
researchers which have to register for the ECS. Accepted submissions will be 
presented as short talks (timing will depend on the final number of accepted 
submissions), with additional time for questions and discussion. Accepted 
submissions will be published in a symposium booklet (PDF).

TRAVEL FUNDS

A limited number of travel grants for the conferences may become available. 
Interested applicants should send an e-mail to ludger.jansen@uni-rostock.de. 
We will contact them with further details on how to submit an application 
once the funds have been secured.

CONTACT

For all queries about the Early Career Symposium, please contact Ludger 
Jansen (ludger.jansen@uni-rostock.de).



Robert Stevens
Reader in bioHealth Informatics
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
United Kingdom
M13 9PL

robert.stevens@manchester.ac.uk
Blog: http://robertdavidstevens.wordpress.com
Home: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~stevensr
+44 161 275 6251

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