[Bioperl-l] Fwd: Computational Challenges Conference, Registration Open

[Chris Dagdigian]

>From: Andrew Komornicki <komornic@futures.eng.sun.com>
>Subject: Computational Challenges Conference, Registration Open
>To: compbio-sig@sun.com
>Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 15:51:12 -0700 (PDT)
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>             REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR
>COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES OF THE POST-GENOMIC AGE SYMPOSIUM II
>
>Registration is now open for the second Computational Challenges of the
>Post-Genomic Age workshop, a two-day symposium open to all scientists and
>co-sponsored by Sun Microsystems, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC),
>and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The symposium will address the
>scientific questions combined with computational challenges being posed by
>bioinformatics and the mapping of genomes, structural genomics, and
>interactions at the cellular level, and full organ simulations.
>
>Sixteen world-class scientists will address these issues September 13-15,
>2001, at the Regal University Hotel in Durham, North Carolina. Registration
>is available at the symposium Web site:
>      http://www.sdsc.edu/Workshops/postgenomic/
>
>"Dramatic advances in molecular genetics continue at an ever increasing
>pace," said conference organizer Andrew Komornicki of Sun Microsystems.
>"Biologists continue to face the challenge of relating DNA sequence
>information to three-dimensional protein structures and to the complex
>transformations that underlie living systems. Thus last year we focused on
>the progression of biological data from gene sequence information on through
>protein structure, cell function, and finally on to whole organ simulation.
>This year we have chosen a somewhat different perspective on the same set of
>problems."
>
>"As the new century begins, we are seeing an increasing importance of data,
>data collections, and the computing challenges associated with them," says
>Fran Berman, director of SDSC and the National Partnership for Advanced
>Computational Infrastructure. "A large number of communities, particularly
>in the life sciences, are finding they have enormous amounts of data and
>they need to be able to analyze it, mine it, and extract knowledge from it."
>
>This symposium focuses on the growing synergy between computational science,
>high-performance computing, and the biological sciences. A huge amount of
>data must be stored, analyzed and made broadly available to the scientific
>community.  In addition, advances in computational methods, algorithms, and
>computers have made it possible to model some biological systems with high
>accuracy and unveil unique views of how biological processes occur.
>
>The presentations will be on September 14-15. A reception is planned on
>Thursday evening with the meeting held on Friday and Saturday.  A dinner,
>hosted by the organizes is planned for Friday evening. Speakers from
>academia and industry will focus on four general topic areas:
>
>    * Bioinformatics and Databases,
>    * Algorithms for Discovery Life Sciences,
>    * Protein Structure, Function and Integration, and
>    * From Proteins to Disease.
>
>For more information, contact Andrew Komornicki, Sun Microsystems,
>650-786-0003, andrew.komornicki@eng.sun.com. The registration fee is $200,
>or $100 for post-doctoral researchers and students. The registration
>deadline is August 31.
>
>The current speakers who have accepted are listed below. They represent
>world leaders in many branches of biology. See
>http://www.sdsc.edu/Workshops/postgenomic/ for the current complete list.
>
>Contacts:
>Nancy Clark, Sun Microsystems, nancy.clark@sun.com
>David Hart, SDSC, dhart@sdsc.edu
>
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>BIOINFORMATICS AND DATABASES
>
>Lincoln Stein
>Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
>
>Shankar Subramaniam
>Department of Bioengineering
>Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
>University of California, San Diego
>
>Tod Klingler
>Prospect Genomics, Inc.
>
>Terry Gaasterland
>Laboratory of Computational Genomics
>Rockefeller University
>
>ALGORITHMS FOR LIFE SCIENCES DISCOVERY
>
>Ming Li
>University of California, Santa Barbara
>
>Michael Waterman
>Departments of Mathematics and Molecular Biology
>University of Southern California
>
>PROTEIN STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND INTEGRATION
>
>George Rose
>Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
>Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
>
>John Moult
>CARB
>University of Maryland
>
>Herbert Edelsbrunner
>Department of Computer Science
>Duke University
>
>FROM PROTEINS TO DISEASE
>
>George Church
>Department of Genetics
>Harvard University Medical School
>
>Bernhard Palsson
>Department of Bioengineering
>University of California San Diego,
>
>Jeremy Levin
>Physiome Sciences, Inc.
>
>Douglas Lauffenburger
>Director, Biotechnology Process Engineering Center
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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>Andrew Komornicki                  Tel: (650)-786-0003
>HPC Business Development
>Sun Microsystems  MPK12/2418
>Menlo Park, CA              Mailto:andrew.komornicki@eng.sun.com
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