This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts for full talks to the inaugural conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio) is Thursday, April 8, 2010, which less than 1 week away. Please see http://bit.ly/iEvoBio_CfA for the full Call for Abstracts and author instructions.

As another reminder, full talks are only 1 of 5 kinds of contributed content that iEvoBio will feature. The other 4 are: 1) Lightning talks (5 mins long), 2) Challenge entries, 3) Software bazaar demonstrations, and 4) Birds-of-a-Feather gatherings. The Call for Challenge entries is also open (see http://ievobio.org/ challenge.html). Tentative submission deadlines are listed on the conference website (http://ievobio.org/program.html#dates).

More details about the program and guidelines for contributing content are available at http://ievobio.org. You can also find continuous updates on the conference's Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/ iEvoBio, and there is an announcment-only Google group at http://groups.google.com/group/ievobio-announce . You can use the group's RSS feed (see above URL), or join the group to receive announcements by email.

iEvoBio is sponsored by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in partnership with the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). Additional support has been provided by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).

The iEvoBio 2010 Organizing Committee: Rod Page (University of Glasgow) Cecile Ane (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Rob Guralnick (University of Colorado at Boulder) Hilmar Lapp (NESCent) Cynthia Parr (Encyclopedia of Life) Michael Sanderson (University of Arizona)