The Oklahoma Bioinformatics Society

OKBIOS

The Fifth Annual Conference of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society

MCBIOS 2008

MCBIOS 2008 was held February 23-24, 2008 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

It was so far the best attended MCBIOS (140 registrants) with the most participation (68 posters submitted).

Keynote talks were delivered by Dr. Bruce Roe and Dr. Edward Dougherty.

Program brochure and photos of the conference will be posted soon.

Student poster award winners were:

Vinay Ravindrakumar of UALR (1st place),

Quan Shi of LRCHS (2nd)

Brian Roux of UNO (3rd), with honorary mentions going to Murat Eren of UNO and Prashanti Manda of MSU.

Student talk winners were:

Daniel Quest of UNMC (1st place),

Nan Wang of MSU (2nd),

William Sanders of MSU (3rd).

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ABOUT OKBIOS:

The Oklahoma Bioinformatics Society (OKBIOS) is a non-profit professional organization created in the state of Oklahoma

to foster communications and multi-institutional collaborations between professionals in the all areas of life sciences

related to bioinformatics and computational biology, including (but not limited to) functional genomics, proteomics,

metabolomics, bioimaging and systems biology.

OKBIOS will also provide an informational hub for the local institutions to keep current on the development and availability

of new technology, national and international efforts in bioinformatics, local research news and information about

funding opportunities relevant to bioinformatics.

OKBIOS is a chapter of MCBIOS and has recently received a regional affiliate status within the International Society

for Computational Biology (ISCB).

CONTACTS:

Jonathan Wren, Ph.D.                                                Yuriy Gusev, Ph.D.