From bjorne@ida.his.se Thu Nov 2 15:27:12 2000 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:45:15 +0100 (MET) From: Bjorn Olsson To: amca@mail.mathatlas.yorku.ca Cc: bioinformatics2001@ida.his.se Subject: Bioinformatics 2001 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION and CALL FOR ABSTRACTS BIOINFORMATICS 2001 First Resort Billingehus Hotel and Conference Centre, Skovde, Sweden March 29 - April 1, 2001 INTRODUCTION Bioinformatics 2001 is the third major international bioinformatics meeting in Scandinavia. It is organized jointly by bioinformatics groups from the Nordic countries, and aims to cover current developments in research on all aspects of bioinformatics. IMPORTANT DATES Early Registration Deadline: 15 February, 2001 Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 February, 2001 Late Registration Deadline: 1 March, 2001 Conference Dates: 29 March - 1 April, 2001 TOPICS Bioinformatics 2001 will include session on the following topics: Algorithms Molecular Evolution and Genome Comparisons Life Process Modelling and Simulation Proteomics and Expression Analysis Data Mining KEYNOTE SPEAKER Kari Stefansson CEO, deCODE genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland INVITED SPEAKERS Confirmed speakers so far (more speakers will be announced): Xun Gu Dept. of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State Univ., USA Pavel Gromov Dept. of Medical Biochemistry, University of Aarhus, Denmark Christopher Hogue Samuel Lunenfeld Research Insitute and Dept. of Biochemistry, Univ. of Toronto, Canada Mathias Mann Univ. of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Michael Miyamoto Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Florida, USA David Penny Inst. of Molecular Biosciences, Massey University, New Zealand Jacqueline Reich Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Manchester, UK Oliver Ryder Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San Diego, USA. Garrett Odell Dept. of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Christos Ouzounis Computational Genomics Group, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK David Sankoff Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Montreal, Canada Ron Shamir School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel Terry Speed Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA Michael Sternberg Biomolecular Modelling Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK Caro-Beth Stewart Dept. of Biological Sciences, SUNY-Albany, USA Alfonso Valencia Protein Design Group, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid, Spain. Ralf Zimmer GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany More speakers will be announced. For the most recent list of speakers, and tentative titles of talks, see the Bioinformatics 2001 web site at http://www.ida.his.se/ida/bioinformatics2001 POSTER SESSION Delegates are welcome to submit abstracts presenting their research. Accepted abstracts will be presented during a poster session. Instructions on abstract submission will be posted at the Bioinformatics 2001 web site at http://www.ida.his.se/ida/bioinformatics2001 The deadline for abstract submission is February 15, 2001. VENUE The meeting is held at First Resort Billingehus in Skovde in the middle of Sweden, a location easily accessible from both Goteborg and Stockholm international airports. First Resort Billingehus is situated on the Billingen hill, with a beautiful view to the east overlooking the city of Skovde. ORGANIZATION Program Committee: Alvis Brazma Soren Brunak Finn Drablos Arne Elofsson Mark Johnson Inge Jonassen Dan Lundh Bengt Persson Bo Servenius Organizing Committe: Soren Brunak Dan Lundh Bjorn Olsson Bengt Persson Bo Servenius Session Chairs: Esko Ukkonen (Algorithms) David Liberles (Molecular Evolution and Genome Comparisons) Per Kraulis (Life Process Modelling and Simulation) Bengt Persson (Proteomics and Expression Analysis) Inge Jonassen (Data mining) The meeting is organized in collaboration within SocBiN - Society for Bioinformatics in the Nordic countries (www.socbin.org). MORE INFORMATION Web site: http://www.ida.his.se/ida/bioinformatics2001 Email: bioinformatics@ida.his.se