Dear Colleagues,
The 7th Georgia Tech - ORNL Conference -
"Genome Biology and Bioinformatics"
to be held on November 12-14, 2009
is now less than a month away:
http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2009/
The program of the conference features
talks of many leading experts in the field
http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2009/speakers_2009.php
Thanks to financial support from a larger group of sponsors
we are happy to announce that the registration fee is reduced to:
$20 student/postdoc
$50 - academic
$100 - industry
Deadline for poster abstract submission is extended to
November 1
We hope to see you soon in the
Georgia Tech Ferst Center for the Arts
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Invited Speakers
Margaret O. Dayhoff Lecture
David Lipman, NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Margaret Dayhoff and Molecular Evolution in the 21st Century
Vineet Bafna, University of California at San Diego, USA
Proteogenomics
Gill Bejerano, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Genomics and the Evolution of Human-Specific Traits
Jeffrey Bennetzen, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
The Hyperevolution of Artifacts and Realities in the Structure and Function of Higher Plant Genomes
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Gene Finding in the Era of Next Generation Sequencing
Nick Grishin, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA
Evolutionary Classification of Protein Structures
Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
Large Scale Genomic Data Mining
King Jordan, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA
MIR Elements Provide Chromatin Boundaries to the Human Genome
Igor Jouline, University of Tennessee - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA Molecular Evolution of a Complex Signal Transduction System in Prokaryotes
Eugene Koonin, NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Systems Biology and the Prospects of a Post-Modern Evolutionary Synthesis
Nikos Kyrpides, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
The Future of Microbial Genomics
Boris Lenhard, University of Bergen, Norway
Long-, Short- and Mid-Range Gene Regulation: Lessons from Genome-Wide Patterns of Sequence Conservation and Transcription Factor Binding
Jian Ma, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Unraveling the Ancestral Mammalian Genome Yields Insights into the Human Genome
Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Deciphering the Role of Alternative Splicing in Modulating the Human Gene Regulatory Network
Joanna Masel, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
The Origin of New Coding Sequences
Andrey Mironov, Moscow State University, Russia
Conserved Intronic RNA Secondary Structures
Karen Nelson, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Studies of The Human Microbiome
Andrei Osterman, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA USA
Integrated Genomic Reconstruction of Metabolic and Regulatory Networks in Bacteria
Natasa Przulj, Imperial College London, UK
>From Network Topology to Biological Function and Disease
John Reinitz, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA
When Two Plus Two Doesn't Equal Four: Modeling Non-Modular Enhancer
Behavior in the Eve Promoter
Pierre Rouze, Gent University, Gent, Belgium
>From Protists to Plants, Fungi and Animals: Eukaryote Genomes Are
Not Born Equal
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