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CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Colleagues

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, Munich Polytechnic University, Germany
 Andrey Gorin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 Andrzej M. Kierzek, University of Surrey, UK.
 Eileen Kraemer, University of Georgia
 Jun Liu, Harvard University
 Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago
 Andre Rogatko, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute
 Gary Stormo, Washington 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