Submission Guidelines

All papers and proposals must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following categories are welcome.

• Workshop proposal describing the following information in A4 1-2 pages using the template here.

  • Title and Tagline: A clear, engaging name and a short 1-line description of your session.

  • Aim and Significance: A summary of the background, why the topic matters now, and what makes it innovative.

  • Target Audience: Who the session is for and the prerequisite knowledge required. An estimate of the number of attendees.

  • Agenda: Interactive tasks to be solved. Details and importance and its relevance for the community.

  • Speakers and Organizers: Bios and expertise of the team, plus a list of confirmed or tentative guests.

• Oral / poster presentations describing your original work. Please ensure that your abstract communicates a scientific result and refrains from advertising any commercial software or products. The length limit is up to 4 pages using the template here. Your submissions will not appear in EasyChair preprints.

Selection Criteria

Workshops

Workshops are selected by their contents and the fit for the meeting. We can take up around 10 workshops from large to small ones.

Presentations

Oral presentations are selected from submissions based on scientific merits and inclusion (balance on gender, region and topics).

Committees

Organizing Committee

• Masanori Arita, Susumu Goto, Yasunori Yamamoto (National Institute of Genetics, Japan)
• Kazuyoshi Ikeda (RIKEN, Japan)
• Kalpana Panneerselvam (Univ of Cambridge, UK)
• Sonia Balyan (IBDC, India)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to sympo2027@nig.ac.jp .