On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee of 27-th International Biometric Conference, that will be held in Florence 6-11 July 2014, we remind that the deadline of abstract submission is approaching.

Abstracts for contributed oral and poster presentations to be presented at IBC Florence 2014 can be submitted online until 16 December 2013 inclusive.
 
The mission of the IBS is "to promote the development and application of statistical and mathematical theory and methods in the biosciences, including agriculture, biomedical science and public health, ecology, environmental sciences, forestry, and allied disciplines." Contributions at the conference are therefore welcome across a wide range of both methodological topics and application areas relevant to the mission of the IBS.
 
The following list provides an indication of the areas that have been covered at previous conferences and will be covered at the coming conference, but these should not limit what you submit. 
Agricultural research
Analysis of imaging and signal data
Bayesian methods
Biological networks
Categorical data analysis
Causal inference in clinical and epidemiological research
Computer intensive methods and software development
Design and analysis of clinical trials
Design and analysis of toxicology and pharmacology
Ecological research (including forestry, fisheries and wild life)
Environmental research
Epidemiological research
Epidemiological research for radiation exposure
Genetic research (non human)
Genetic research (human)
Infectious diseases and control
Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model
Measurement and analysis of radioactivity and radiation exposure
Medical research (including diagnostics research and medical decision making)
Microarrays and omics data
Missing and incomplete data
Multiple testing and adjustments for multiplicity
Pharmacoepidemiology and post-marketing research / outcome research
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
Risk analysis and risk management
Spatial data analysis
Statistical graphics
Survival data analysis
Validity and reliability of measurements
Forensic statistics
Functional data analysis
Structural bioinformatics
Quantile/MQuantile regression
Predictive modelling and instead of spatial data analysis a broader spatial/spatio-temporal data analysis

All abstracts must be submitted online and prepared using the Word (97-03) templates.
 
Each abstract submission must include the title, list of authors and author affiliations, and abstract (as indicated in the template), with each submission having a maximum length of one page of A4 using the fonts specified in the templates. Authors are requested to select the area(s) of the abstract from a list of possible session topics (given above). The number of oral abstract submission with the same presenting author is limited to one.
 
All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific committee for the conference, and presenting authors will be informed of the status of their abstract (oral session, poster session, rejection) by 3 March 2014.
 
All contributed oral presentations will be allocated to a 15-minute slot within a particular scientific session, with each session lasting 105 minutes and therefore containing 6 oral presentations and time for discussion. All poster presentations will also be allocated to a particular scientific session throughout which it is expected that the presenting author will be present at their poster.
 
All presenting authors must have registered for the IBC by 15 May 2014 for their abstract to be included in the Programme.
 
Following on from the success of the awards made at the last three IBCs, we will again be awarding prizes for the Best Student Oral Presentation(s) and the Best Poster Presentation(s).
 
More information are available here:  http://www.biometricsociety.org/2013/09/ibs-2014-call-for-papers/ or here: http://www.ibs-italy.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=115

Prof. Adriano Decarli

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