A workshop on Computational Advances in Molecular Epidemiology (CAME 2011) will be organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2011) held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on Nov. 12-15, 2011. The workshop aims to accelerate progress in the field by bringing together field practitioners of molecular epidemiology, molecular evolutionists, population geneticists, medical researchers, bioinformaticians, statisticians and computer scientists interested in the latest developments in algorithms, mining, visualization, modeling, simulation and other methods of computational, statistical and mathematical analysis of genetic and molecular data in the epidemiological context. The deadline for submitting papers is Sept. 20, 2011. For more details about the workshop see http://alan.cs.gsu.edu/CAME11/.

A workshop on computational advances for next generation sequencing will be held on Feb. 4, 2011 in conjunction with ICCABS 2011, in Orlando, Florida. The workshop aims to bring together experts in the field to discuss mathematical and computational challenges such as error correction, de novo genome assembly, novel transcript discovery, virus quasispecies assembly, etc. The meeting is by invitation only; if you would like to inquire about the possibility of being invited, please contact the organizers by January 10, 2011.