7th Georgia Tech - ORNL Conference on Bioinformatics

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Colleagues

The 7th Georgia Tech - ORNL Conference on Bioinformatics -
In silico Biology: Genome Biology and Bioinformatics
will be held in
Atlanta, Georgia, November 12-14, 2009
[Only registered users see links. ]

Georgia Tech continues the tradition of organizing bi-annual
International Conference on Bioinformatics, bringing together leading
researchers in genomics, bioinformatics and genome biology to present recent
advances in the field and to discuss open problems.

Important Dates
Deadline for early registration: October 15, 2009
Deadline for poster abstract subsmission: October 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 11, 2009

We invite papers submissions in the following areas
* genomics;
* transcriptomics;
* proteomics;
* reconstruction and modeling of gene networks;
* evolutionary biology;


SPEAKERS

Margaret O. Dayhoff lecture
David Lipman , NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

Plenary Speakers:
Vineet Bafna, University of California at San Diego, USA
Gill Bejerano, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Jeffrey Bennetzen, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Nick Grishin, University of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA
Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
King Jordan, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA
Igor Jouline (Zhulin), University of Tennessee - ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Eugene Koonin, NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Nikos Kyrpides, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Boris Lenhard, University of Bergen, Norway
Jian Ma, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, Technion, Israel Insitute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Joanna Masel, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Andrey Mironov, Moscow State University, Russia
Andrei Osterman, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA USA
Karen Nelson, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Natasa Przulj, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA
John Reinitz, State Uiversity of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA
Pierre Rouze, Gent University, Gent, Belgium

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University
Eva K. Lee, Georgia Tech and Emory University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Nicholas Bergman, Georgia Tech
Dmitrij Frishman, Munich Polytechnic University, Germany
Andrey Gorin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Andrzej M. Kierzek, University of Surrey, UK.
Eileen Kraemer, University of Georgia
Jun Liu, Harvard University
Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago
Andre Rogatko, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute
Gary Stormo, Washington University
Ying Xu, University of Georgia and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Soojin Yi, Georgia Tech
Igor Zhulin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee

ADMINISTRATION
Harry Sharp, Georgia Tech

CONFERENCE LOCATION
The Georgia Tech Ferst Center for the Arts. The Georgia Tech campus is located in Midtown Atlanta near the center of the 1996 Olympic development, close to the Fox Theatre and Margaret
Mitchell house.