IWBDA-20: International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA, United States, August 3-5, 2020

New Workshop Track in 2020!

The Twelfth International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) will bring together researchers from the synthetic biology, systems biology, and design automation communities to discuss concepts, methodologies and software tools for the computational analysis and synthesis of biological systems.

The field of synthetic biology, still in its early stages, has largely been driven by experimental expertise, and much of its success can be attributed to the skill of the researchers in specific domains of biology. There has been a concerted effort to assemble repositories of standardized components; however, creating and integrating synthetic components remains an ad hoc process. Inspired by these challenges, the field has seen a proliferation of efforts to create computer-aided design tools addressing synthetic biology's specific design needs, many drawing on prior expertise from the electronic design automation (EDA) community.

The IWBDA offers a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion, with the aim of seeding and fostering collaboration between the biological and the design automation research communities.

IWBDA is organized by the non-profit Bio-Design Automation Consortium (BDAC). BDAC is an officially recognized 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.

Topics of interest include:

• Design methodologies for synthetic biology.
• Standardization of biological components.
• Automated assembly techniques.
• Computer-aided modeling and abstraction techniques.
• Engineering methods inspired by biology.
• Domain specific languages for synthetic biology.
• Data exchange standards and models for synthetic biology.

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts must be submitted via EasyChair using this link. If you do not have an easy chair account, please create one by following the instructions specified here.  Abstracts should be two pages long and referenced, following the ACM SIG Proceedings templates at www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.  For your convenience, we have created a template for IWBDA Abstracts in overleaf which can be found here. (Inclusion of figures is encouraged.) Indicate whether you are submitting to the Research or Workshop track (see below). Indicate whether you would like your abstract considered for a poster presentation, an oral presentation, or both. Include the full names, affiliations and contact information of all authors. Abstracts should be submitted in pdf format and should not exceed two pages.  Abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Those that are selected for oral and poster presentations will distributed to workshop participants and posted on the workshop website.

New Workshop Track in 2020!  

Applicants may propose to conduct either half day (8am-12pm, 1pm-5pm) or full day workshops of interest to the IWBDA community.  Proposals should be submitted via the submission link above.  Indicate Workshop track when prompted. Proposals need not follow the abstract template above.  Instead, please submit a 1/2 - 1 page description of the workshop, including activities, learning objectives, and why your workshop is of interest to the community.  Also please include a brief agenda and contact info for the organizers.

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 13, 2020

Committees

Contact us at: iwbda-exec AT lists.bio-design-automation.org

• General Chair - Eric Young, Worcester Polytechnic Institue
• Local Chair - Natalie Farny, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Co-Web Chair - Aaron Adler, BBN Technologies
• Co-Web Chair - Prashant Vaidyanathan, Microsoft Research
• Finance Chair - Traci Haddock-Angelli, iGEM Foundation
• Program Committee Chair - Bryan Bartley, BBN Technologies

Venue

IWBDA will take place at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Bryan Bartley