[Taxacom] Call for Abstracts open for Conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio)

[Robert Guralnick]

Dear Taxacom:

The Call for Abstracts for full talks is now open for the 2012
conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and
Biodiversity (iEvoBio), at
http://ievobio.org/ocs2/index.php/ievobio/2012. See below for
instructions.

Accepted talks will be 15 minutes in length and will be presented
during the full talk session of the conference.  Because the number of
program slots for full talks is limited, some talks may be moved to
the Lightning Talk session (5 minutes in length).

Submitted talks should be in the area of informatics aimed at
advancing research in phylogenetics, evolution, and biodiversity,
including new tools, cyberinfrastructure development, large-scale data
analysis, and visualization.

Submissions should be 1 page long at most and include a title, a list
of contributors, and an abstract. The abstract should provide an
overview of the talk's subject, and give enough detail to allow
reviewers to decide whether the submission merits a full talk, or
whether it should be moved to a Lightning Talk session.  If the
subject of the talk is a specific software component for use by the
research community, the abstract must state the license and give the
URL where the source code is available so reviewers can verify that
the open-source requirement(*) is met.

The deadline for submission is April 2, 2012. We intend to notify
authors of accepted talks before early registration for iEvoBio (and
Evolution) ends. Further instructions for submission are at the
following URL:
http://ievobio.org/ocs2/index.php/ievobio/2012/schedConf/cfp

Full talks are one of the five kinds of contributed content that
feature in iEvoBio. The other four are: 1) Lightning talks (5 mins
long), 2) Challenge entries, 3) Software bazaar demonstrations, and 4)
Birds-of-a-Feather gatherings. The Call for Challenge entries is
already open (see http://ievobio.org/challenge.html). The calls for
contribution to the other three sessions will open later, and will
remain open until shortly before the conference or until the
respective track fills up. In addition, 2012 iEvoBio sponsor
Biomatters Ltd will be running the Geneious Challenge alongside this
year’s iEvoBio Challenge, see
http://ievobio.org/geneious_challenge.html for more information.

More details about the conference and program are available at
http://ievobio.org. You can also find continuous updates on the
conference's Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/iEvoBio and Google+
page, or subscribe to the low-traffic iEvoBio announcements mailing
list at http://groups.google.com/group/ievobio-announce.

iEvoBio 2012 is sponsored by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis
Center (NESCent) and by Biomatters Ltd., in partnership with the
Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) and the Systematic Biologists
(SSB).

The iEvoBio 2012 Organizing Committee:
Hilmar Lapp, US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (chair)
Robert Beiko, Dalhousie University
Nico Cellinese, University of Florida and Florida Museum of Natural History
Robert Guralnick, University of Colorado at Boulder
Rebecca Kao, Denver Botanic Gardens
Ellinor Michel, Natural History Museum, London
Nadia Talent, Royal Ontario Museum
Andrea Thomer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

(*) iEvoBio and its sponsors are dedicated to promoting the practice
and philosophy of Open Source software development (see
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php) and reuse within the
research community. For this reason, if a submitted talk concerns a
specific software system for use by the research community, that
software must be licensed with a recognized Open Source License (see
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/), and be available for download,
including source code, by a tar/zip file accessed through ftp/http or
through a widely used version control system like cvs, Subversion,
git, Bazaar, or Mercurial.  Authors of full talks who cannot meet this
requirement at the time of submission should state their intentions,
and are advised that the requirement must be met by July 9, 2012, at
the latest.