RSGDREAM 2023: RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics with DREAM Challenges UCLA Los Angeles, CA, United States, November 28-December 1, 2023

Now in its fifteenth year, the RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics with DREAM Challenges, is one of the premier annual meetings in the fields of regulatory genomics, systems biology, and network visualization. This multidisciplinary conference brings together both computational and experimental researchers from across the world to discuss recent discoveries about genomic and molecular regulatory networks as well as innovative, integrative methods for developing a systems-level understanding of biological activity.The conference will be held at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. Program activities will begin on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 and conclude on Friday, December 1, 2023.

The conference will feature:

• Keynote speakers
• DREAM Challenges 
• Talks selected from an open call for abstracts

RSGDREAM 2023 will be a dual channel distribution conference, offering both in-person and virtual attendance.  We hope you join us at UCLA in Los Angeles, California, USA.  If you are unable, we hope you consider joining virtually on the conference's robust platform.

Submission Guidelines

The RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics invites abstracts for consideration for oral presentations or participation in a poster session. Abstracts may be either original unpublished work or original work that was published or accepted for publication in a high-impact journal between January 1, 2022 and November 1, 2023. Unpublished work will be considered for either an oral or poster presentation.

Key Dates for RSG:

• Abstract Submission for Oral Presentation and Poster deadline: Wednesday, September 27, 2023
• Author notifications will occur on or around Wednesday, October 11, 2023
• Late Breaking Posters deadline*: Friday, October 25, 2023 or until capacity is reached. 

*Poster portal information will be sent to all approved posters after the notification deadline. Note Late Breaking posters will have a very short turn-around as all presentations MUST be uploaded between November 10-14 for Posterpalooza and no file may be uploaded after November 21.

All presenters are expected to present in-person at the conference and will be required to provide a pre-recorded talk for the virtual platform library in advance of the conference. The pre-recorded talk will be available shortly after the live presentation to provide faster and more seamless access to the conference content for virtual participants.

Any abstracts submitted after the deadline will be included only at the discretion of the conference chairs, and will be eligible for poster presentations only. Please also note that we can only allow one abstract per presenting author.

Authors reserve the right to publish their work elsewhere.

In-Person Poster Hall: When preparing accepted posters please note that your printed poster should not exceed the following dimensions: 46 inches wide by 46 inches high. There will be 1 or 2 poster per side on the each poster board.  Additionally, we ask that you also follow the Virtual Poster Hall information below in addition to your in-person presentation. This ensures all posters are viewable to both in-person and virtual attendees thus providing more exposure to your work. 

Virtual Poster Hall: When preparing accepted posters please note that your poster will need to be uploaded via the virtual platform portal in two formats - a PDF of the poster and a 5-7 minute flash talk video not to exceed 100MB. Poster portal information will be sent to all approved posters closer to the conference and after the notification deadline. All presentations MUST be uploaded on specific dates within the window of November 8-10*. More specific dates will be given closer to the conference.*Late Breaking posters will have a very short turn-around.

Information for DREAM Challenges:

The DREAM Challenges are crowd-sourcing to solve complex biomedical research questions. Together, we share a vision to enable individuals and groups to collaborate openly so that the 'wisdom of the crowd' provides the greatest impact on science and human health.  Over sixty crowd-sourced DREAM Challenges have benchmarked informatic algorithms in biomedicine.  DREAM has had over 30,000 cross-disciplinary participants from around the world that have volunteered as solvers. Over 105 academic journal publications have resulted from DREAM Challenges covering a range of disease areas.

Learn more about the DREAM process - Pose > Prepare > Engage > Evaluate > Share

List of Topics

• Single-cell omics and multiomics 
• Spatial transcriptomics
• Machine learning methods for systems biology
• Network inference, visualization and analysis
• Regulatory genomics, regulatory networks
• Co-transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and translational regulation
• Epigenomics, chromatin state, nuclear organization
• Metabolomics, Proteomics
• Microbiome analysis
• Integrative methods for multiomics data
• Non-coding RNAs
• Genetic, molecular, and phenotypic variation in human disease
• Cellular signatures of biological responses and disease states
• Mathematical modeling and simulation of biological systems
• Methods for systematic validation of high-throughput biological predictions
• Translational systems biology

Committees

Steering committee

• Jake Albrecht, Sage Bionetworks
• Bonnie Berger, MIT
• Julie Bletz, Sage Bionetworks
• Richard Bonneau, NYU
• Paul Boutros, UCLA
• Andrea Califano, Columbia University
• Anshul Kundaje, Stanford University, RSG Program Chair
• Manolis Kellis, MIT
• Christina Leslie, MSKCC
• Jian Ma, Carnegie Mellon University
• Saurabh Sinha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Lonnie Welch, Ohio University

Organizing committee

• Ferhat Ay, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
• Elise Blaise, IBM, DREAM Program Chair
• Jason Ernst, UCLA, RSG Program Chair
• Pablo Meyer, IBM, DREAM Program Chair
• Sushmita Roy, University of Wisconsin, RSG Program Chair

Additional Support

• Bel Hanson, ISCB Senior Manager of Operations and Programs
• Nadine Kampman Costello, Marketing and Communications Manager
• Diane Kovats, ISCB, Chief Executive Officer
• Seth Munholland, ISCB, Lead Technologist

Venue

The conference will be held at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.

Program activities will begin on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 and conclude on Friday, December 1, 2023.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to events@iscb.org