The International Study Group for Systems Biology is a collective of international researchers interested in advancing the biological sciences through exploring the interplay between theory and experiment. From 1989 to 2004, the collective went under the name of the International Study Group for BioThermoKinetics (or BTK) and organized workshops every two years. In 2004, at its Oxford meeting, the group decided that the emergent term ‘Systems Biology’ was a more accurate and meaningful description of its concerns, and accordingly changed its name to International Study Group for BioThermoKinetics which at the Trakai meeting in 2006 was again changed to the current name, International Study Group for Systems Biology (ISGSB). However, most of the group would consider that BTK had in many respects anticipated the development of Systems Biology, and its members were Systems Biologists before they knew it, just as Harry Kroto was in retrospect a nanotechnologist though he did not know that at the time.

ISGSB-2010 will be held in the suburbs of Vladimir, in 215 km from Moscow, in the out-of-town hotel Veles-club.