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Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB40 Leuven: AGM Wed 17 July 2019 (17 o’clock)

Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB40 Leuven: AGM Wed 17 July 2019 (17 o’clock). ISCB Sub-Committee National Groups. National Groups: Terms of Reference and Membership. Polish NG: Report. PNG Representatives , mandate 2019-2021

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Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB40 Leuven: AGM Wed 17 July 2019 (17 o’clock)

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  1. Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB40 Leuven: AGM Wed 17 July 2019 (17 o’clock) ISCB Sub-Committee National Groups

  2. National Groups:Terms of Reference and Membership

  3. Polish NG:Report • PNG Representatives, mandate 2019-2021 • Krystyna Szafraniec (chair), Alicja Cicha-Mikołajczyk (vice-chair), • Kinga Sałapa (treasurer), Agnieszka Dorynska (webmaster) • Membership 2017 • 63 total, including 5 students, 10 retired • Membership 2018 • 62 total, including 5 students, 10 retired • Membership 2019 • 52 total, including 4 students, 6 retired • Course Organisation • Seminars Organisation • Educationalseminarorganised for non-statisticians, lecturesgiven by members of PNG: „Pitfalls in Medical Statistics”organisedwithinthe XIth Conference on Preventive Cardiology, 23-24.XI.2018, Krakow, • Regularmeetings: twice a year - December 14, 2018, Kraków; June 27-28, 2019, Szczecin • Ist Conference of the PNG organisedtogether with the Polish Medical Society (Section of the Methodology of MedicalSciences) „Modern Statistics in MedicalResearch”, June 27-28, 2019, Szczecin • PNG Life Short Summary • Regularsummer scientific meeting took the form of a small conference (37 participants) • We madesomestepstoward 2020 Annual ISCB Conference in Krakow

  4. Hungarian NG:Report • HNG Representatives • Chair: Julia Singer (2017-2020) • Secretary: TímeaGombos (2017-2020) • Treasurer: Attila Dávid (2017-2020) • Membership 2017 • 23 members, 20 scientists, 2 students, 1 retired • Membership 2018 • 21 members, 17 scientists, 3 students, 1 retired • Membership 2019 • 24 members, 18 scientists, 4 students, 2 retired • Course Organisation Last short course: 9 November 2018:The design and analysis of N of 1 trials, deliveredby Stephen Senn. Seminars Organisation • Monthly regular seminars, Biosimilar Forum (yearly, organized in cooperation with the Viennese section of IBS and Accelsiors Ltd ) • HNG Life Short Summary • Regular meetings, no award for young statisticianswas granted. Slightincrease in thenr. of studentmembersduetotheBiostatisticsPostgraduate Program (2-year education) started in 2018 attheVeterinary University . 4

  5. Romanian NG:Report Romanian NG Representatives: Anca VITCU (Chair), Anca IGNAT (vice-Chair/ Tresurer), Local coordinators (Sorana BOLBOACA, Liana BERA, Corina VERNIC), Web developer: Elena ROTARU (mandate until 2020) Membership 2019: 43 members (42 scientists, 1 PhD student) - We developed an Agenda to promote biostatistics among students at national level, a strategy to recruit them in the ISCB and connect them with the happenings in the related fields held in other universities from the European area. We evaluated what policies, topics, materials and tools may increase students’ interest in the field of biostatistics, what could motivate them to join RNG and participate at ISCB events, how we have to reshape our actions to better meet their expectations. In this context we prepare a Workshop on The role of biostatistics and bioinformatics in contemporary medicine and pharmaceutical research(advancements and limits, successes and pitfalls) to be organized as a Webinar coordinated by RNG-ISCB, Faculty of Computer Science & Faculty of Medicine (Iasi, Romania). Is dedicated to Master and PhD students in medicine, molecular and computational biology, biotechnology, computer science, mathematics; invited speakers would be experts from ISCB community and the event will be held during two sessions in October and December 2019. - A new RNG platform is in work based on modern web technologies and social network media with the aim to create a better connection with the relevant information provided in the fields as biostatistics, medical and pharmaceutical research, biotechnology development. - On a personal level, as usual, all RNG members are involved in projects developed in the universities they are affiliated, are members of national and international editorial boards, act as reviewers for reference books and as part of competition commissions.

  6. Czech NG: Report • Czech NG Representatives • Zdeněk Valenta (chairman), Marek Malý (vice-chairman), JindraReissigová (treasurer) • Mandate 11 Sept 2018 – 10 Sept 2021 • Membership 2019 • 39 members (32 scientists, 4 students, 3 retired) • Course Organisation • Emmanuel Lesaffre and ArnoštKomárek:‘Analysis of Interval-Censored Data: Does Interval Censoring Matter?’ (2nd Nov 2018). One day non-sponsored ISCB course in Prague attended by 15 participantsfromthe Czech Republic (9), Poland (2), South Korea (2), Germany (1) and Switzerland (1) • Seminars Organisation • Aleksander Owczarek (Silesian Medical University Katowice, Poland)‘A time-domain-constrained fuzzy clustering method in biomedical data analysis’ • Stanislav Katina (Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic’).‘Visualisation of spatially smoothed biological signal recorded on landmarks, curves or surfaces’ • Jan Kalina (Dept. of Machine Learning, Institute of Computer Science AS CR). `Introduction to machine learning’ • MichalaLustigová (National Institute of Health, Prague, Czech Republic) `Population health assessment from the demographic perspective’ • Zdeněk Fabián (Dept. of Statistical Modelling, Institute of Computer Science AS CR) `Foundations of Alternative Probability Theory for Continuous Random Variables’ • Marie Turčičová (Dept. of Statistical Modelling, Institute of Computer Science AS CR)) `Covariance modelling for ensemble filtering algorithms in high dimension’

  7. 2019 ISCB Conference Awards for ScientistsReport by Zdeněk Valenta • The applicants • The NG SC received a total of 6 eligible applications for the Conference Awards for Scientists (CASc) from 5 applicants, which is down from 14 as of last year • The applicants represented 5 countries, namely Bangladesh (1), China (1), Hungary (1), India (1) and Turkey (1) • It was a little disappointing to see the submission rate decreased so dramatically from the last year, although obviously the Joint ISCB/SSA Annual Conference in Melbourne represented a rare opportunity and was able to attract scientists truly from across the globe, e.g. from Cameroon, Kenya, Lebanon and Costa Rica • The winners • The NG SC decided to grant two ISCB CASc awards in 2019. Both winners achieved the score of 7 out of 10 possible • The first winner is Afsana Mimi from Bangladesh. Her contribution was entitled ‘Variable Selection for Censored Data Using Modified Correlation Adjusted coRrelation (MCAR) Scores’ • The second winning application was submitted by Attila Dávid from Hungary. His paper was entitled ‘Two new exact confidence intervals for a bounded negative binomial sampling scheme’. • Congratulation to the 2019 CASc Award winners!

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