1. Conference Organising
ISCB Sub-Committee
Conference Organising
Terms of Reference, Membership and Report
ISCB37 Birmingham 2016: AGM Wed 24 Aug

2. Conf: Terms of Reference and Membership
Information
Terms of Reference
Members
Conference Organising googlegroups.com
1. Bring together ISCB conference organisers or ISCB members who have an interest in sharing and passing on their knowledge and experience to help future ISCB conference organisers.
2. Document processes and systems for assisting ISCB conference organisers.
3. Review and update the documents whenever necessary and promote their usage for improving the procedures or meetings.
Chair:
1. David W Warne (CH)
Secretary:
2. Geir Egil Eide (NO)
Members:
3. Jacobo de Una Alvarez (ES)
4. Jörg Assmus (NO)
5. Katherine Lee (AU)
6. Koos Zwinderman (NL)
7. Lucinda Billingham (UK)
8. Maarten Schipper (NL)
9. Michael Schemper (AT)
10. Tim Ramsay (CA)
11. Tomasz Burzykowski (BE)
12. Toshiro Tango (JP)
13. Ulrich Mansmann (DE)
14. Zdenek Valenta (CZ)

3. Conf: Report p.1/2 Changes to the SC
 Joined: -
 Left: KyungMann Kim (US), Keith Abrams (UK)
Last version of the COSC Guidelines
 Was sent to SC + Lutz + Harbajan in June 2013 for review – no comments received
 Was discussed further at ISCB34 in Munich
 Ideas were discussed at ISCB35 in Vienna
 Ideas were discussed at ISCB36 in Utrecht
 Has not been re-issued as some time is needed to implement the comments, upload to website with links to all the attachments.
– To be done by the Past-President in early 2017
 Martin Schipper has added his comments in the files in the attached zip file

4. Conf: Report p.2/2 Future Conferences
We should have a brief discussion of each of these:
 2016 Birmingham, UK
– budgeting process long and complicated, need better templates?
 2017 Vigo, Spain
- any issues to be discussed?
 2018 Melbourne, Australia
 2019 Leuven, Belgium
 some ideas for potential organisers and locations
- Krakow, Poland (will present proposal)
- Turkey (sadly few delegates allowed to attend ISCB37)
- Iran
- France – Lyon
- Portugal – Lisbon
- Japan 4