The call for Contributed Abstracts, for both oral and poster presentations to be included in the conference program, will open on February 8th, 2010, with a deadline for submissions of Friday, April 30th, 2010.  All abstracts will need to be submitted electronically via the conference web-site (http://www.ibc-floripa-2010.org), using a supplied template.  As for previous IBCs, contributions are welcome across the breadth of methodological topics and range of application areas covered by members of the society.  All contributed abstracts will be reviewed by members of the International Program Committee, with decisions about acceptance of abstracts in the conference program, and information about the allocation to oral or poster sessions, communicated to all authors before the end of July 2010.  A provisional scientific program will also be made available at this time.  All presenting authors are expected to have registered for the conference by the end of September 2010.