Second Immunoinformatics and Computational Immunology
Workshop (ICIW 2011) http://ailab.cs.iastate.edu/iciw2011/


To be held in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology (ACM-BCB) (http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2011/),
Chicago, IL, U.S.A. August 1-3, 2011

Call for Papers
Naturally emerging or reemerging diseases pose some of the most serious threats to human health. Computational methods are urgently needed for developing new vaccines, therapies, and models to improve our understanding of the immune system, and reliable tools for focusing experimental investigations.

The workshop aims to attract researchers from computer science, information science,
biomedicine, bioinformatics, systems biology, and immunology to share research
challenges, research results, methods, and advances in immunoinformatics and computational immunology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
♦ Structural Immunoinformatics
♦ Epitope analysis and prediction
♦ MHC-peptide binding site analysis and prediction
♦ Immunoinformatics Databases, Knowledge Bases, Ontologies
♦ Computational modeling of immune system
♦ Analysis and prediction of minor histocompatibility antigens
♦ Predictive models for organ transplantation
♦ Immunogenomics
♦ Vaccine design
♦ Artificial immune systems and other biologically-inspired paradigms
♦ Multi-agent based modeling of immune response
♦ Allergenicity prediction
♦ Gene expression changes in adaptive immune response
♦ Comparative approaches to immunology

Important Dates
Paper Submission deadline: March 18, 2011
Poster Submission deadline: April 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: April 22, 2011
Camera-ready of accepted papers: May 1, 2011


Author Instructions
Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper.
Regular papers must be no longer than 10 pages, papers on evolving research and work
in progress should be no longer than 5 pages, following the ACM two-column format for
conference proceedings (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates)
All accepted papers will be included in a Workshop Proceedings to be published on line
and included with the conference proceedings on the CD. Authors of selected papers will have an opportunity to extend their workshop papers for publication (subject to peer review) in Journal of Immunological Methods and Immunome Research Journal.

Papers should be submitted electronically (in PDF form) through “EasyChair” at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iciw2011


Poster Submission

We invite authors to submit one-page extended abstracts. Submissions should be sent
to yasser@cs.iastate.edu before May 15, 2011. Notification of acceptance will be given
by May 31, 2011. Accepted abstracts will be selected for oral or poster presentation and
will be included in the workshop proceedings in CD.


Organizing committee

Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, USA))
Vladimir Brusic (Harvard University)
Yasser EL-Manzalawy (Iowa State University, USA)

Program Committee (Tentative)

Becca Asquith (Imperial College London, UK)
Anne De Groot (URI Institute for Immunology and Informatics, USA)
Salvador Eugenio Caoili (University of the Philippines Mani)
Can Kesmir (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Andrzej Kloczkowski (Ohio State University, USA)
Santo Motta (University of Catania, Italy)
German Nudelman (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA)
Bjoern Peters (La Jolla institute of allergy and immunology, USA)
Nikolai Petrovsky (Flinders University, Australia)
Julia Ponomarenko (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Johannes Sollner (Emergentec biodevelopment GmbH, Austria)
Anna Tramontano (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Guanglan Zhang (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA)