Upcoming Conferences

COMBINE 2025

Conference Date

Conference Location

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The “Computational Modeling in Biology” Network (COMBINE) is an initiative to coordinate the development of the various community standards and formats in systems biology and related fields. COMBINE 2025 will be a workshop-style event hosted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Local organizers are Elebeoba E. May and colleagues.

Workshop Location

Confirmed Plenary and Invited Speakers

1. Belinda Akpa,   University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA
2. Sasitharan Balasubramaniam,   University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
3. William Bentley,   University of Maryland-College Park, USA
4. Gheorghe Craciun,   University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
5. Adriana Dawes,   The Ohio State University, USA
6. Bernard de Bono,   Indiana University, USA & University of Auckland, New Zealand
7. John Denu,   University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
8. Anthony Gitter,   Morgridge Institute & University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
9. Jo Handelsman,   University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
10. Herbert Levine,   Northeastern University, USA
11. Erica Majumder,   University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
12. Megan Mcclean,   University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
13. Ion Moraru,   UConn Health, USA
14. David Nickerson,   Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand
15. Brian Pfleger,   University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
16. Sushmita Roy,   University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
17. James Sluka,   Indiana University - Bloomington, USA
18. Lucian Smith,   University of Washington, USA
19. John Yin,   University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Schedule

The schedule will be available here.

Arrival and Transportation

There are several airports near Madison, Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the location of the workshop.

• Dane County Regional Airport (MSN): 6 miles from downtown, nonstop flights to major hubs.
• General Mitchell International (MKE): 80 miles east, more flight options.
• Chicago O’Hare International (ORD): 130 miles southeast, ideal for international travel
• Chicago Midway International (MDW): 140 miles southeast, budget-friendly with Southwest

Ground Transportation

Regional busses

Accommodations and Conference Hotels

There are two conference hotels for COMBINE 2025, UW-Madison's Union South Hotel and the DoubleTree Hotel. A block of rooms have been held and are available for workshop participants to book stays from October 19th-24th at a nightly rate of $186 USD (exclusive of taxes and any applicable fees). Reservations must be made by September 28, 2025.

• DoubleTree Hotel Downtown Madison – COMBINE 2025 (https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/msndtdt-com-9f9ba3f4-979e-4320-988e-43095848ebec/) DoubleTree is 0.4 miles from the Pyle Center with complimentary downtown and airport shuttle service.
• Union South Hotel COMBINE 2025(https://go.wisc.edu/hotel-combine-2025) Union South is 0.8 miles from the Pyle Center with complimentary parking.

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Type A and Type B plugs are used in USA.

Support

Registration

Registration for the meeting is $199 USD (standard) for in person and free for virtual attendees. **After September 28th, late registration is $219 USD.** Please register at the link above as soon as possible and finalize your registration using the EventBrite link on the registration form. This will help us plan the schedule and match your interests to the timing of the breakouts, etc. Note, only registered attendees will be sent information related to the meeting.

Call for Breakout Sessions and Tutorials

All attendees can suggest breakout sessions for hacking and/or detailed discussions of certain aspects of one or several of the COMBINE standard(s), metadata and semantic annotations (format-specific or overarching), application and implementations of the COMBINE standards, or any other topic relevant for the COMBINE community. The topics for those breakout sessions, and the time slots which would suit their communities can be submitted via the link above. Note, breakout session organisers will be responsible for creating and hosting their own online sessions, if required.

Call for Talks, Lightning Talks and Posters

Requests for a short talk, lightning talk (5 min max.) and/or poster can be submitted via the link above. This link should also be used to submit title and abstract for invited talks. Please use several forms if you want to submit abstracts on different topics. The submission deadline is outlined above. Talks will take place during the community session and posters will be displayed during a dedicated poster session at the meeting.

Application for travel funding

We have limited funding to support trainnee participation in the COMBINE 2025 Workshop for students and postdocs who make a significant contribution to the meeting. Applications will be considered as they are received until funds are exhausted. Therefore, please submit your application as soon as possible.

Topics of Interest

• Model use and development to advance mechanistic understanding of biological systems from molecular to physiome and community scales (e.g., development, epigenetics, host-pathogen systems, plant systems, microbiomes and communities)
• Data exchange, pipelines and model standards for systems and synthetic biology
• Visualization and graphical notation standards for systems and synthetic biology
• Standards for sharing and analysing biological pathway data
• Standards for computational biological models and modelling support
• Metadata description and model annotation in COMBINE standard formats
• Implementation of COMBINE standards in tools, databases and other resources
• Integrated model and data management for systems and synthetic biology
• Standardization and use of Artificial Intelligence approaches in biological modelling
• Emerging standardization needs in multi-scale, multicellular and microbial community modeling
• Community aspects of COMBINE