From conf from opal.biology.gatech.edu Mon Oct 1 18:38:50 2007 From: conf from opal.biology.gatech.edu (Georgia Tech Conference Announcement) Date: Mon Oct 1 22:01:21 2007 Subject: [Bio-information-theory] Georgia Tech-ORNL Bioinformatics Conference (extended deadline) Message-ID: <200710012338.TAA52886@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 conference in 1997 -- Gene Discovery in silico This year, Georgia Tech continues the tradition of organizing bi-annual International Conference on Bioinformatics, bringing together leading researchers in genomics and bioinformatics to present recent advances in the field and to discuss open problems. Important Dates Conference: November 15 - 17, 2007 Extended deadline for abstract submission: October 12, 2007 Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 18, 2007 *All selected abstracts will be eligible for competing for the 2007 best poster award. The winner(s) will be announced at the dinner banquet on November 17. Deadline for early registration: October 19, 2007 Deadline for late registration: November 8, 2007 Conference Website http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2007/ CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS Joel Bader, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Martha Bulyk, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA, 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 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 Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital, 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 Alberto Apostolico Georgia Tech 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 The Global Learning & Conference Center, located in Midtown near the center of the 1996 Olympic development, close to the Fox Theatre and Margaret Mitchell house. From jeedward from gmail.com Fri Oct 5 19:24:33 2007 From: jeedward from gmail.com (John Edward) Date: Fri Oct 5 21:29:54 2007 Subject: [Bio-information-theory] BCBGC-2008 Call for papers Message-ID: <000301c807af$475d0990$6401a8c0@cisnotebookbp> Call for papers The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions and session proposals. The conference will be held at the same time and place where several other major events are taking place. The website contains more details. Sincerely John Edward