DISCUSSANT AND YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS
THIRD ALBANY CONFERENCE ON
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
"PHYLOGENETIC AND STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PROTEINS"
RENSSELAERVILLE, NY
SEPT 28 - OCT 1, 1995
* * * * * * DISCUSSANT AND YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS * * * * * *
As in past Albany Conferences on Computational Biology, we are
seeking an interdisciplinary audience: mathematicians and computer
scientists as well as biologists. To encourage participation of
specialists outside biology, we will award waivers of meeting fees
($495) to three mathematicians and/or computer scientists who
would act as discussants. Fee waivers will also be awarded to
several graduate students and postdocs to encourage participation
by young investigators. Individuals seeking either type of award
should submit an application (see below), a CV, and a short letter
explaining their interest in attending the meeting. "Young
Investigator" awardees will be expected to present a poster at the
meeting and so applicants should include an abstract with their
application.
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION
This interdisciplinary meeting will be the third in our series of Albany
Conferences on Computational Biology, and will be held September 28 -
October 1, 1995 in Rensselaerville near Albany, New York. Like the two
predecessors ("Converging Approaches in Computational Biology" in 1990
and "Patterns of Biological Organization" in 1992), the aim of this
conference is to explore the computational tools and approaches being
developed in diverse fields within biology, with emphasis this year on
phylogeny as apparent in relationships on the molecular level.
The conference will be designed to provide an environment for a frank and
informal exchange among scientists and mathematicians that is not normally
possible within the constraints of topical, single-discipline meetings. The
theme of the conference, "Phylogenetic and Structural Relationships Among
Proteins", will be developed in five sessions: 3-D Structural Relationships
Among Proteins, Sequence-Structure Interface, Data Bases, Phylogenetic
Methods, and Applications to Molecular Evolution. Leading specialists in the
various disciplines have been invited, with the degree of involvement in
novel computational approaches as one of the most important criteria of
selection.
SPEAKERS/TOPICS
Joel Sussman (Keynote Speaker): Brookhaven National Lab and Weizmann Inst
of Science
AChE in 3D: New mysteries revealed from the crystal structure.
Steven Benner: ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Structure prediction from sequence data.
Stephen Bryant: NIH, Computational Biology Branch
An alignment model and fast algorithm for protein threading.
Cyrus Chothia: MRC, Cambridge, England
1. The use of key residues in model building: Outline structure of the NCAMs.
2. The structural classification of Proteins (SCOP) database.
G. Brian Golding: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
The chimeric origins of the eukaryotic nucleus
David Hillis: University of Texas, Austin, TX
Accuracy in phylogenetics: Applying the theory to a particular data set.
Charles Lawrence: Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Bayesian methods for finding distant relationships in biopolymer sequences: Are
they structural or evolutionary?
Peter J. Munson: NIH, Analytical Biostatistics Section
Parametric, semi-parametric and nonparametric prediction of secondary structure
>From homologous sequences.
Spencer V. Muse: Penn State University
Likelihood methods for studying protein evolution.
Chris Sander: European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL
DALI - Protein structure comparison and classification.
Caro-Beth Stewart: University at Albany
Phylogenetic approaches to detecting adaptive molecular evolution.
Arlin Stoltzfus: Dalhousie University
What introns have to tell us about protein structure and vice versa.
Jeffrey L. Thorne: North Carolina State University
Using protein secondary structure to better understand protein evolution.
Shoshana J. Wodak: Univ Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Identification of short protein turn motifs by sequence and structure
fingerprints.
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Registration information can be obtained by directly contacting the
conference coordinator:
Carole A. Keith
Center for Molecular Genetics & 1995 Albany Conference
BIO 126
University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue Phone: 518/442-4327
Albany, NY 12222 USA FAX: 518/442-4354
Email: carole at cnsibm.albany.edu
Information about the meeting sessions and format can be obtained from
the following members of the organizing committee:
Joachim Frank (co-chair), Wadsworth Center
518-474-7002
joachim at orkney.ph.albany.edu
Carmen Mannella (co-chair), Wadsworth Center
518-474-2462
carmen at orkney.ph.albany.edu
Jacquelyn Fetrow
518-442-4389
jacque at isadora.albany.edu
Charles Lawrence, Wadsworth Center
518-473-3382
lawrence at wadsworth.ph.albany.edu
Caro-Beth Stewart, University at Albany
518-442-4342
cs812 at csc.albany.edu
