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Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB38 Vigo 2017: AGM Wed 12 Jul

Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB38 Vigo 2017: AGM Wed 12 Jul. ISCB Sub-Committee National Groups. xxx: Terms of Reference and Membership. Polish NG: Report. PNG Representatives , mandate 2016-2018

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Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB38 Vigo 2017: AGM Wed 12 Jul

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  1. Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB38 Vigo 2017: AGM Wed 12 Jul ISCB Sub-Committee National Groups

  2. xxx:Terms of Reference and Membership

  3. Polish NG:Report • PNG Representatives, mandate 2016-2018 Krystyna Szafraniec (chair), Alicja Cicha-Mikołajczyk (vice-chair), Kinga Sałapa (treasurer), Renata Majewska (webmaster) • Membership 2016 • 94 registered, 75 paid membership fee (among them 2 students, 10 retired) • Membership 2017 • 63 total, including 5 students, 10 retired • Course Organisation • 2-day course sponsored by ISCB entitled “Causal Inference”, September 22-23, 2016, Krakow, • Speaker: Stijn Vansteelandt, Professor of Statistics at Gent University and at the London School of Public Health (U.K.) • 23 participants, 22 members of PNG • Seminars Organisation • Two educational seminars organised for non-statisticians, lectures given by members of PNG: 1. „Pitfalls in Medical Statistics”organised within the IXth Conference on Preventive Cardiology, November 18-19, 2016, Krakow 2. „Statistical standards in medical research projects and publications” organised within XIth International Seminar- Statistics and Clinical Practice, May 11-13, 2017, Warsaw • Regular meeting, February 24, 2017, Large health studies in Poland- challenges in statistical modelling • PNG Life Short Summary • Satisfied with the Causal Inference course last year we are waiting for the next one in this September (thanks for sponsoring) • We made some steps toward 2020 Annual ISCB Conference in Krakow • Next regular meeting is scheduled for December 2017

  4. Hungarian NG:Report • HNG Representatives • Chair: Julia Singer (2017-2020) • Secretary: Tímea Gombos (2017-2020) • Treasurer: Attila Dávid (2017-2020) • Membership 2016 • 52 members, it was not split into categories • Membership 2017 • 23 members, 20 scientists, 2 students, 1 retired • Course Organisation 14-15 October 2016: Statistical Issues in Drug Development, delivered by Stephen Senn. This was the most successful course in our 25-year history in terms of number of participants (53 attendants from different countries: 46 from Hungary, 3 from Romania, 1 from Poland, 2 from Austria and 1 from Germany). • Seminars Organisation • Monthly regular seminars, and a two-day event Biosimilar Forum (organized in cooperation with the Viennese section of IBS and Accelsiors Ltd ) • HNG Life Short Summary • Regular meetings, and celebration of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of our national group.

  5. Romanian NG:Report • RNG Representatives • National Representative: AncaVitcu (2017-2018) • Deputy/Treasurer: AncaIgnat (2017-2018) • Webmaster: Elena Rotaru (2017-2018) • Nationalnetwork coordinators: Elena Podoleanu (Bucharest), SoranaBolboacă (Cluj-Napoca), Liana Bera (Sibiu), Laszlo-Barna Iantovics & Marius Mărușteri (Târgu Mureș), Corina Vernic (Timișoara) (2017-2018) • Membership 2016 • 68 members (68 scientists) • Membership 2017 • 59 members (59 scientists) • Course Organisation ISCB – will sponsor for the Fall of 2017 a package of three lectures: Using R for Statistical Analysis (Daniel Leucuța - University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Survival Analysis: Principles, Methods and Applications (Tomasz Burzykowski- Hasselt University, Belgium), Introduction to Web Scraping, Data Visualization and Content Analysis (Anca Vitcu - „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Faculty of Computer Science, Iasi, Romania) • Seminars Organisation • Being affiliated to the academic community all members have a hectic life imposed by their status - almostregularly deliver lectures, organize workshops and conferences at local and national levels • RNG Life Short Summary • Short meetings with the local coordinators are held almost each month, and at local level discussions take place whenever needed.

  6. Czech NG:Report • CzNGRepresentatives • Zdeněk Valenta (chairman), Marek Malý (vice-chairman), JindraReissigová (treasurer) • Mandate 11/2015-11/2018 • Membership 2016 • 43 members • Membership 2017 • 39 members (34 scientists, 3 students, 2 retired) • Course Organisation • Prof. Stephen Senn, Ph.D.„An Introduction to Statistical Issues in Drug Development“. One day course in Prague attended by 24 participantsfromthe Czech Republic (20), Slovakia (2), Germany (1) and Austria (1). • Seminars Organisation • Karel Kupka, TriloByte Statistical Software, Ltd. Measurement and classification of photoplethysmographic signals and their potential for cardiovascular disease diagnostics • DuintjerJurjenTebbens, ICS CAS Prague. Some applications of numerical linear algebra in statistics and some applications of statistics in pharmacy. • Milan Paluš, ICS CAS Prague. Brain networks and scalp electroencephalogram.

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