Early registration is now in progress for the Second International
Georgia Tech Conference on Bioinformatics.
The organizers would like to inform you that the following deadlines
are approaching:
* September 10 - Deadline for poster abstract submission
* October 1 - Deadline for early registration
We encourage you to register as soon as possible, as participation will
be limited to about 250 people.
For more information, please see the conference website at:
http://exon.biology.gatech.edu/conference
We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta,
The Conference Organizers
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SECOND GEORGIA TECH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS
In silico BIOLOGY: SEQUENCE & STRUCTURE & FUNCION
ATLANTA
NOVEMBER 11 - 14, 1999
SPONSORS:
National Institutes of Health
US Department of Energy
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Georgia Tech College of Science
Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
SouthEastern Center for Applied Analysis
SmithKline Beecham
AGENDA:
The conference agenda includes keynote lectures, plenary lectures,
as well as poster sessions.
The list of confirmed speakers is as follows:
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Russell Doolittle University of California, San Diego, CA
Walter Fitch University of California, Irvine, CA
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
David Baker University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Pierre Baldi University of California, Irvine, CA
Steven Brenner Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Chris Burge MIT, Cambridge, MA
Antoine Danchin Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
Sean Eddy Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Patrick Forterre University Paris-Sud, Paris, France
David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Samuel Karlin Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Jeffrey Lawrence University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Steven Henikoff Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Christine Orengo University College, London, UK
Burkhard Rost Columbia University, New York, NY
Andrej Sali Rockefeller University, New-York, NY
William Taylor National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
STEERING/PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Pierre Baldi Net-ID
Mark Borodovsky, Co-chair Georgia Tech
Soren Brunak Technical University of Denmark
Chris Burge MIT
Jim Fickett SmithKline Beecham
Steven Henikoff Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Eugene Koonin, Co-chair NCBI/NIH
Andrej Sali Rockefeller University
Chris Sander Millennium Pharmaceuticals
Gary Stormo University of Colorado
DEADLINES:
POSTER SUBMISSION:
Deadline for poster abstract submission:
September 10, 1999
REGISTRATION:
Early registration ends:
October 1, 1999
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
Registration opens at 6:00pm on Thursday, November 11
The program starts 8:00am Friday, November 12
and ends at noon Sunday, November 14.
LOCATION:
The conference will be held at the
Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown
located near the center of 1996 Olympic development,
close to the Fox Theatre & Georgia Tech.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
General co-ordination
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech
mark at amber.gatech.edu
"Bioinformatics" magazine publication
Chris Burge MIT
cburge at mit.edu
Poster sessions
Scott Sammons Emory University
sammons at bimcore.emory.edu
Administrative & Public Relations Assistant
Amanda Besemer Emory University
Amanda_Besemer at bus.emory.edu
Publicity
John Besemer Georgia Tech
john at amber.gatech.edu
Registration and general events
Michael Moryc Georgia Tech
michael.moryc at conted.gatech.edu
MORE INFORMATION
To obtain more information on poster submission & registration
visit the WWW page:
http://exon.biology.gatech.edu/conference
or contact us by
e-mail: register at conted.swann.gatech.edu
Phone: (404) 894-2400
Fax: (404) 894-8925
