UPDATE --
Per requests, we will extend the abstract submission deadline to October 14, 2005.
- Online abstract submissions open until October 14, 2005
- NIH travel grant for PhDs and postdoctoral fellows:
. $750 for foreign scholars
. $500 for scholars within US and Canada.
. Nomination due: extended to October 7, 2005.
- Early registration due October 14 2005
- Conference schedule available online
- Check hotel information on conference website
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5th Georgia Tech - ORNL International Conference on Bioinformatics, in Silico Biology
"Computational Genomics and Evolutionary Biology"
November 17-19, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Home Page:
http://opal.biology.gatech.edu/conference/
ORGANIZED BY
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Georgia Tech
Oak Ridge National Lab
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Selected papers will be published in a special issue of BIOINFORMATICS journal (Oxford University Press)
IMPORTANT DATES
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November 17-19, 2005 - Conference time
September 30, 2005 - Poster Abstract submissions due
October 14, 2005 - Early Registration due
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CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
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Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science
Natalia Komarova, Rutgers University
Michael Lynch, Indiana University, Bloomington
Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine
Philip Bourne, University of California, San Diego
Volker Brendel, Iowa State University
Julio Collado-Vides, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Andrew Ellington, University of Texas at Austin
Dmitrij Frishman, University of Munich & Max-Plank, Germany
Sorin Istrail, Brown University
Alex Kondrashov, NCBI / NIH
John McDonald, Georgia Tech
Jeffrey Thorne, North Carolina State University
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STEERING/PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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- Conference Chairs:
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech
Eugene Koonin, NCBI / NIH
- Program Chairs:
Eva K. Lee, Georgia Tech and Emory University
Andrey Gorin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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