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CALL FOR PAPERS
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, world-
renowned researchers in genomics and bioinformatics to present recent advances
in the field and to discuss open problems.
In the ten years since the first such Georgia Tech Conference "Gene Discovery
in silico" held in November 1997, astonishing progress has been made in genome
related biological science and engineering. There is a strong evidence that
these popular Georgia Tech meetings have served well the interests of the
dynamic and highly productiive bioinformatics research community.
Important Dates
Conference dates: November 15 - 17, 2007
Deadline for poster abstract subsmission: September 30, 2007
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 7, 2007
Registration begins: August 1, 2007
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
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
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 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
CONFERENCE 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 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.
