The Computer Science & Engineering Department is seeking exceptional candidates for four tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor positions, including two positions in bioinformatics and computational genomics. The department is among the top 50 departments in the nation as per the latest NRC rankings. Currently it has 21 faculty members, 10 of whom are NSF Career Award winners, with 300 undergraduate and 115 graduate students. For further information please see http://www.cse.uconn.edu.

The 8th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA’12) will be held in Dallas, Texas on May 21-23, 2012. The ISBRA symposium provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. The deadline for submitting extended abstracts (LNBI proceedings) is February 6, 2012; for short abstracts (oral or poster presentation) the deadline is April 9, 2012. For more details visit the symposium website at http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra12/.