APBJC 2024

General Information

Name of Conference
1st Asia&Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference
~JSBi, GIW, InCoB, APBC, and ISCB-Asia~
Dates
October 22-25, 2024
Venue
Pre-Conference event: Asian Student Council Symposium
Preconference event on October 22, 2024: #ASCS2024
Hotel COLLECTIVE (https://hotelcollective.jp/en/), Naha, Okinawa, Japan
https://maps.app.goo.gl/oPikkk7FiWJpuRcP6(Google Maps)
Host Societies
Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNET)
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi)
Supporters
Association of Asian Societies for Bioinformatics (AASBi)
Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training (GOBLET)
BIOinformatics CLUb for Experimenting Scientists (BioClues)
Masyarakat Bioinformatika Dan Biodiversitas Indonesia (MABBI)
Korean Society for Bioinformatics (KSBi)
Taiwan Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Society (TBSB)
Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS)
Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Interaction and Networking Society (APBians, India)
The Chem-Bio Informatics Society (CBI)
Japan Association for Omics-based Medicine
Japanese Association for Medical Artificial Intelligence

Steering Committee

Conference Chairs
  • Susumu Goto (Research Organization of Information and Systems, Japan)
  • Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita (Soka University, Japan)

Local Organizing Committee

Members
  • Susumu Goto (Research Organization of Information and Systems, Japan)
  • Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita (Soka University, Japan)
  • Yoshihiro Yamanishi (Nagoya University, Japan)
  • Shinya Ikematsu
    (National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College, Japan)
  • Tsuyoshi Shirai (Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Japan)
  • Kenta Nakai (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Technical Program Committee

Chairs
  • Kenta Nakai (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Limsoon Wong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Members
  • Chris Tan (SUSTech, China)
  • Dongsup Kim (KAIST, Korea)
  • Jiangning Song (Monash University, Australia)
  • Junna Kawasaki (Chiba University, Japan)
  • Kana Shimizu (Waseda University, Japan)
  • Michael Gromiha (IIT Madras, India)
  • Ting-Wen Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
  • Tsung Fei KHANG (Universiti Malaya, Malaysia)
  • Wing-Kin Sung (CUHK & Hong Kong Genome Institute, China)

International Organizing Committee

Members
  • Annette McGrath (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia)
  • Diane Kovats (International Society for Computational Biology, USA)
  • Harpreet Singh (Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya Jalandhar, India)
  • Kenta Nakai (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita (Soka University, Japan)
  • Limsoon Wong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • Mohammad Asif Khan (University of Doha for Science and Technology, Qatar)
  • Phoebe Chen (La Trobe University, Australia)
  • Pradeep Eranti (Université Paris Cité, France)
  • Prash Suravajhala (Bioclues, India)
  • Shandar Ahmad (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
  • Shinn Ying Ho (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
  • Shinya Ikematsu (National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College, Japan)
  • Shoba Ranganathan (Macquarie University, Australia)
  • Susumu Goto (Research Organization of Information and Systems, Japan)
  • Tae-Min Kim (The Catholic University of Korea)
  • Tsuyoshi Shirai (Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Japan)
  • Yoshihiro Yamanishi (Nagoya University, Japan)

Child Care

Childcare services will be provided by World Kids. Applications must be made directly to World Kids.
More information on how to apply, please go to Child Care.

Sponsors

Diamond Sponsor

  • ALAFIA

Gold Sponsors

  • MEGAZONE
  • DDN

Session / Luncheon / Exhibition Sponsors

  • PDBj
  • MGeND
  • Veritas_Wako
  • CTBMB
  • Nabe
  • AWS
  • Q-omics
  • GlyCosmos
  • DBCLS
  • NDBC
  • AMED
  • HGC

Childcare Sponsors

  • csb
  • TOMY
  • okinawameiji
  • オキハム