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 Georgia Tech conference in Bioinformatics
-- 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. We hope that these popular
Georgia Tech meetings are serving well the interests of the dynamic and highly
productiive bioinformatics research community.
Important Dates
Conference dates: November 15 - 17, 2007
Deadline for abstract subsmission: September 30, 2007
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 7, 2007*
*All selected abstracts will be eligible for competing for the 2007 best poster
award. The winner(s) will be annouced at the banquet on November 17.
A limited number of travel awards will be provided to doctoral students
selected for presenting posters.
Deadline for travel award application: October 11, 2007
A travel award request should be sent to Dr. Lee: evakylee from isye.gatech.edu
Registration begins: August 20, 2007
Deadline for early registration: October 19, 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
Minoru Kanehisa, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University,
Kyoto, Japan
Anders Krogh, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hanna Margalit, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Andrei Mironov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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
PROGRAM 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 conference will be held at the Georgia Tech 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.
