Call for papers - 6th Georgia Tech, ORNL 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 productive bioinformatics research community.

Important Dates
Conference dates: November 15 - 17, 2007

Deadline for abstract submission: 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 announced 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@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.