From conf from opal.biology.gatech.edu Thu Aug 30 21:53:00 2007 From: conf from opal.biology.gatech.edu (Georgia Tech Conference Announcement) Date: Fri Aug 31 14:52:07 2007 Subject: [Bio-information-theory] Call for papers - 6th Georgia Tech, ORNL Conference on Bioinformatics Message-ID: <200708310253.WAA31232@opal.biology.gatech.edu> The 6th Georgia Tech - ORNL International Conference on Bioinformatics - In silico Biology: Gene Discovery and Systems Genomics Atlanta, Georgia, November 15-17, 2007 10 year anniversary of the first Georgia Tech conference in Bioinformatics -- Gene Discovery in silico This year, Georgia Tech continues the tradition of organizing bi-annual International Conference on Bioinformatics, bringing together leading, world-renowned researchers in genomics and bioinformatics to present recent advances in the field and to discuss open problems. We hope that these popular Georgia Tech meetings are serving well the interests of the dynamic and highly productiive bioinformatics research community. Important Dates Conference dates: November 15 - 17, 2007 Deadline for abstract subsmission: September 30, 2007 Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 7, 2007* *All selected abstracts will be eligible for competing for the 2007 best poster award. The winner(s) will be annouced at the banquet on November 17. A limited number of travel awards will be provided to doctoral students selected for presenting posters. Deadline for travel award application: October 11, 2007 A travel award request should be sent to Dr. Lee: evakylee@isye.gatech.edu Registration begins: August 20, 2007 Deadline for early registration: October 19, 2007 Conference Website http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2007/ CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS Joel Bader, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Jean-Michel Claverie, University of Mediterranee, Marseille, France James Galagan, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA Roderic Guigo, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Minoru Kanehisa, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Anders Krogh, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Hanna Margalit, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Andrei Mironov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Steven Salzberg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Alexander Souvorov, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA Mario Stanke, University of Gettingen, Gettingen, Germany Shamil Sunyaev, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Martin Tompa, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany Zhiping Weng, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Soojin Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University Eva K. Lee, Georgia Tech and Emory University PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pierre Baldi, University of California in Irvine David Bader, Georgia Tech Andrey Gorin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory King Jordan, Georgia Tech Michael Krauthammer, Yale University Eberhard Voit, Georgia Tech and Emory University Igor Zhulin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee ADMINISTRATION Harry Sharp, Georgia Tech CONFERENCE LOCATION The conference will be held at the Georgia Tech Global Learning & Conference Center, located in Midtown Atlanta near the center of the 1996 Olympic development, close to the Fox Theatre and Margaret Mitchell house.