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 conference in 1997
-- Gene Discovery in silico
This year, Georgia Tech continues the tradition of organizing bi-annual
International Conference on Bioinformatics, bringing together leading
researchers in genomics and bioinformatics to present recent
advances in the field and to discuss open problems.
Important Dates
Conference: November 15 - 17, 2007
Extended deadline for abstract submission: October 12, 2007
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 18, 2007
*All selected abstracts will be eligible for competing for the 2007 best
poster award.
The winner(s) will be announced at the dinner banquet on November 17.
Deadline for early registration: October 19, 2007
Deadline for late registration: November 8, 2007
Conference Website
http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2007/
CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS
Joel Bader, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Martha Bulyk, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital,
Cambridge, MA, 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
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 Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital,
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
Alberto Apostolico Georgia Tech
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 The Global Learning & Conference
Center, located in Midtown near the center of the 1996 Olympic
development, close to the Fox Theatre and Margaret Mitchell house.
