Function SIG 2024 will be held on July 13-14

Function SIG Meetings:

Function-SIG 2024 will be held on July 13-14, 2024 as part of ISMB 2024 in Montreal, Canada.

Accepting 2024 abstract submissions

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Important Dates:

April 19, 2024 abstract submission deadline (talks and posters)
Monday, April 22, 2024 Late Poster Submissions Open (posters only)
May 13, 2024 Talk and/or Poster Acceptance Notifications
May 20, 2024 Late Poster Submissions Deadline
May 28, 2024 Late Poster Acceptance Notifications
 July 13-14, 2024 Function SIG meeting at ISMB 2024

 

See more important dates at the ISMB 2024 site.

Function-SIG 2024 Keynote Speakers

Valérie de Crécy-Lagard
Professor, University of Florida USA
Speaker Bio: After a Bachelor’s Degree at Ecole Polytechnique in 1987 and a PhD in microbial genetics at the Pasteur Institute (Paris) in 1991, Valérie de Crécy-Lagard worked in diverse academic and industrial settings using the power of bacterial genetics to study primary and secondary metabolism as well as mechanisms of regulation by proteolysis. In the past 25 years, her work has focused on combining comparative genomic analysis with experimental methods to discover the function of the many ‘unknowns’ found in sequenced genomes, first at the Scripps Research Institute and then, since 2004, in the Microbiology and Cell Science Department at the University of Florida where she is now Distinguished Professor. This led to solving many long-standing mysteries, particularly in the fields of coenzyme metabolism and transfer RNA (tRNA) modification and more generally contribute to the problem of functional annotation of protein families in the post-genomic era .

Talk Title: Linking Gene and function in the post-genomic era: issues and opportunities

Rafael Najmanovich
Professor,  University of Montreal, Canada
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Talks are sought in, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Prediction of protein function from varied data such as sequence, structure, expression data
  • The evolution of function
  • The design of function
  • Incorporating computational function prediction into experimental workflows
  • The use of text mining and natural language processing in function prediction
  • The use of machine learning in protein function prediction
  • The representation of biological function by ontologies and other means
  • Data science as applied to protein function datasets
  • Research related to the Critical Assessment of Function Annotation (CAFA)

Programs from previous years

The Function-SIG meeting is funded by the International Society for Computational Biology
In the past, the Function-SIG meetings were funded, in part, by DBI-1458359 and DBI-1458477 from the US National Science Foundation. R13 HG006079 and R13 HG007807 from the US National Institute of Health, as well as US Department of Energy grant DE-SC0006807TDD.