Now in its sixteenth year, the RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics with DREAM Challenges, is one of the premier annual meetings in the fields of regulatory genomics, systems biology, and network visualization. This multidisciplinary conference brings together both computational and experimental researchers from across the world to discuss recent discoveries about genomic and molecular regulatory networks as well as innovative, integrative methods for developing a systems-level understanding of biological activity. The conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. Program activities will begin on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 and conclude on Thursday, October 3, 2024.

The conference will feature:

• Keynote speakers
• DREAM Challenges 
• Talks selected from an open call for abstracts

RSGDREAM 2024 will be a dual channel distribution conference, offering both in-person and virtual attendance.  We hope you join us at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.  If you are unable, we hope you consider joining virtually on the conference's robust platform.

Submission Guidelines

The RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics invites abstracts for consideration for oral presentations or participation in a poster session. Abstracts may be either original unpublished work or original work that was published or accepted for publication in a high-impact journal between January 1, 2023 and September 1, 2024. Unpublished work will be considered for either an oral or poster presentation.

Key Dates for RSG:

• Abstract Submission for Oral Presentation and Poster deadline: Friday, August 2, 2024
• Author notifications will occur on or around Friday, August 16, 2024
• Late Breaking Posters deadline*: Friday, August 30, 2024 or until capacity is reached. 

*Poster portal information will be sent to all approved posters after the notification deadline. Note Late Breaking posters will have a very short turn-around as all presentations MUST be uploaded after the Confirmation of Participation deadline on September 10, 2024 and not after September 24, 2024.

All presenters are expected to present in-person at the conference and will be required to provide a pre-recorded talk for the virtual platform library in advance of the conference. The pre-recorded talk will be available shortly after the live presentation to provide faster and more seamless access to the conference content for virtual participants.

Any abstracts submitted after the deadline will be included only at the discretion of the conference chairs, and will be eligible for poster presentations only. Please also note that we can only allow one abstract per presenting author.

Authors reserve the right to publish their work elsewhere.

In-Person Poster Hall: When preparing accepted posters please note that your printed poster should not exceed the following dimensions: 46 inches wide by 46 inches high. There will be 1 or 2 poster per side on the each poster board.  Additionally, we ask that you also follow the Virtual Poster Hall information below in addition to your in-person presentation. This ensures all posters are viewable to both in-person and virtual attendees thus providing more exposure to your work. 

Virtual Poster Hall: When preparing accepted posters please note that your poster will need to be uploaded via the virtual platform portal in two formats - a PDF of the poster and a 5-7 minute flash talk video not to exceed 100MB. Poster portal information will be sent to all approved posters closer to the conference and after the notification deadline. All presentations MUST be uploaded on specific dates before September 24, 2024*. More specific dates will be given closer to the conference.

*Late Breaking posters will have a very short turn-around.

Information for DREAM Challenges:

The DREAM Challenges are crowd-sourcing to solve complex biomedical research questions. Together, we share a vision to enable individuals and groups to collaborate openly so that the 'wisdom of the crowd' provides the greatest impact on science and human health.  Over sixty crowd-sourced DREAM Challenges have benchmarked informatic algorithms in biomedicine.  DREAM has had over 30,000 cross-disciplinary participants from around the world that have volunteered as solvers. Over 105 academic journal publications have resulted from DREAM Challenges covering a range of disease areas.

Learn more about the DREAM process - Pose > Prepare > Engage > Evaluate > Share

List of Topics

Omics Integration and Analysis

• Single-cell, spatial, and bulk multi-omics
• Integrative methods for multi-omics data analysis

Computational Approaches in Gene Regulation

• Perturbation technologies and machine learning for probing gene regulation
• Regulatory genomics, including transcriptional and translational regulation

Mathematical Modeling and Network Inference

• Mathematical modeling of biological systems
• Network inference and analysis in biological systems

Epigenomics and Chromatin Organization

• Epigenomics, chromatin organization, and nuclear architecture
• Chromatin accessibility, remodeling, and histone modifications

Genetics of Complex Traits and Diseases

• Genetic variation in complex traits
• Cellular signatures of disease states

Committees

Program Committee

• Bonnie Berger, MIT
• Elise Blaise, IBM
• Richard Bonneau, NYU
• Ashleigh Donnellan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Jason Ernst, University of California, Los Angeles
• Bel Hanson, ISCB
• Anshul Kundaje, Stanford University
• Manolis Kellis, MIT
• Diane Kovats, ISCB
• Christina Leslie, MSKCC
• Jian Ma, Carnegie Mellon University
• Pablo Meyer, IBM
• Sushmita Roy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Saurabh Sinha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Lonnie Welch, Ohio University

Organizing committee

• Ferhat Ay, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, RSG Program Chair
• Elise Blaise, IBM, DREAM Program Chair
• Aly Azeem Khan, University of Chicago, RSG Program Chair
• Pablo Meyer, IBM, DREAM Program Chair
• Sushmita Roy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, RSG Program Chair

Additional Support

• Bel Hanson, ISCB, Director of Operations and Programs
• Diane Kovats, ISCB, Chief Executive Officer
• Justine Morris, ISCB, Coordinator of Operations and Programs
• Seth Munholland, ISCB, Lead Technologist
• Maddie Thomas, ISCB, Community Engagement Liaison
• Mallory Wiper, ISCB, Communications Specialist

Venue

The conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.

Program activities will begin on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 and conclude on Thursday, October 3, 2024.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to events@iscb.org.