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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
http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2009/

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, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
 Andrey Gorin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 Andrzej M. Kierzek, University of Surrey, UK.
 Eileen Kraemer, University of Georgia
 Jun Liu, Harvard University
 Hannah Margalit, Hebrew University
 Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago
 Andre Rogatko, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute
 Gary Stormo, Washington University
 Lance Waller, Emory 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.