4th Canadian Student Conference
on Biomedical Computing
SPONSORS:
UBC Biomedical Engineering UBC Brain Research Centre UBC Bioinformatics Graduate Program Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops Institute for Computing, Information & Cognitive Systems MITACS Student Advisory Committee College for Interdisciplinary Studies
Wreck Beach, University Endowment Lands

CSCBC is now over

Thanks go out to everyone involved in making this conference a great success. Photos are now online.

CSCBC was held on March 12-14 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia

The Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing (CSCBC) is a research event that provides an opportunity for students in the fields of bioinformatics and biomedical engineering to network with and learn from those at the forefront of this rapidly-advancing field. Research in biomedical computing harnesses computational methods to advance biological science and medical technology. CSCBC 2009 was hosted by the University of British Columbia from March 12-14, 2009, its first time in Western Canada!

Conference topics included, but were not limited to:

Bioinformatics

Computational Biology

  • Molecular sequence analysis
  • Molecular evolution
  • Protein structures
  • Computational drug design
  • Biomedical data and text mining
  • Biostatistics
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Bioinformatics algorithm and software development
  • Bio-ontologies
  • Applications of the above

Systems Biology

  • Structural, functional and integrative genomics
  • Computational proteomics
  • Computational metabolomics
  • Gene and protein interaction networks
  • Modeling of biological systems
  • Signaling pathways
  • Computational biophysics
  • Biomolecular dynamics
  • Synthetic biology
  • Applications of the above

Biomedical Engineering

Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Interventions

  • Biomedical signal processing
  • Biomedical imaging and image processing
  • Visualization methods
  • Computer aided diagnosis
  • Computer assisted surgery
  • Medical robotics
  • Telesurgery
  • Anatomical atlases
  • New applications for specific imaging systems
  • Functional imaging
  • Applications of the above

Medical Devices and Technology

  • Electronic medical devices
  • Intelligent instrumentation
  • Measurement and instrumentation
  • Tissue engineering
  • Implant technology
  • Patient monitoring
  • Prosthetics and orthotics
  • Biomaterials
  • Bio-nanotechnology
  • Applications of the above

Who is invited?

Submissions were open to all students, undergraduate or graduate, Canadian or international, whose work fell within the relevant subject area. Attendance at the conference was primarily aimed at students, although non-students could attend for a higher fee.