SECOND GEORGIA TECH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS In silico BIOLOGY: SEQUENCE & STRUCTURE & FUNCTION ATLANTA NOVEMBER 11 - 14, 1999 SPONSORS: National Institutes of Health US Department of Energy Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Georgia Tech College of Science Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience SmithKline Beecham Georgia Tech School of Biology Southeast Applied Analysis Center FULL LENGTH MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION: Special issue of "Bioinformatics" magazine will publish papers submitted by the conference participants presenting either talks or poster papers. Deadline for manuscript submission: June 18, 1999 POSTER SUBMISSION: Deadline for poster abstract submission: September 10, 1999 REGISTRATION: Early registration ends: October 11, 1999 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: Registration opens at 5:00pm on Thursday, November 11 (with the reception at 7:00pm). The program starts 8:00am Friday, November 12 and ends at noon Sunday, November 14. LOCATION: The conference will be held at Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown located near the center of 1996 Olympic development, close to Fox Theatre & Georgia Tech. AGENDA: The conference agenda includes keynote lectures, plenary lectures, as well as poster sessions. The list of confirmed speakers is as follows: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Russell Doolittle University of California, San Diego, CA Walter Fitch University of California, Irvine, CA Walter Gilbert Harvard University, Cambridge, MA PLENARY SPEAKERS: David Baker University of Washington, Seattle, WA Pierre Baldi University of California, Irvine, CA Steven Brenner Stanford University, Stanford, CA Antoine Danchin Institute Pasteur, Paris, France Sean Eddy Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO Patrick Forterre University Paris-Sud, Paris, France David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz, CA Steven Henikoff Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA Samuel Karlin Stanford University, Stanford, CA Jeffrey Lawrence University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Christine Orengo University College, London, UK Burkhard Rost Columbia University, New York, NY Andrej Sali Rockefeller University, New-York, NY William Taylor National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK CONTRIBUTED LECTURES: Soren Brunak Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark Pierre Rouzé University of Ghent, Belgium David Sankoff Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada Ron Unger Bar Ilan University, Tel-Aviv, Israel STEERING/PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Pierre Baldi University of California, Irvine Mark Borodovsky, Co-chair Georgia Tech Soren Brunak Technical University of Denmark Chris Burge MIT Jim Fickett SmithKline Beecham Steven Henikoff Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Eugene Koonin, Co-chair NCBI/NIH Andrej Sali Rockefeller University Chris Sander Millennium Pharmaceuticals Gary Stormo University of Colorado ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General co-ordination Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech mark@amber.gatech.edu Poster session Scott Sammons Emory University sammons@bimcore.emory.edu Publicity John Besemer Georgia Tech john@amber.gatech.edu Publication of Conference Brochure Dr. Ping Li Georgia Tech ping@amber.biology.gatech.edu Administrative & Public Relations Assistant Amanda Besemer Emory University Amanda_Besemer@bus.emory.edu Registration and general events Michael Moryc Georgia Tech michael.moryc@conted.gatech.edu MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Manuscripts should be sent to Dr. Chris Burge. Three copies of the text and figures are required. MIT / Center for Cancer Research 40 Ames St., E17-526a Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 E-mail: cburge@mit.edu POSTER SUBMISSION * To apply for participation in a poster session, please send a one page abstract of your poster in plain text format, by September 10, 1999, to Scott Sammons by e-mail: sammons@bimcore.emory.edu (preferred method) or by FAX: (404) 727-3659 Please include author(s) affiliation, e-mail address. Acceptance notice will be issued by September 24. A booklet with the accepted poster abstracts will be available at the conference. REGISTRATION ** Registration Fee: Early (until October 11): Commercial - $495, Academic/government - $345, Student - $195, Late: Commercial - $595, Academic/government - $445, Student - $245. The registration fee for students has been kept low thanks to the generous contributions of our sponsors. The registration fee covers conference materials, welcome reception, coffee breaks, 3 breakfasts, 2 lunches, and 2 dinners. Hotel Reservations: For reservations at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown phone (404) 881-6000 or (800) 228-9898. Mention the Bioinformatics/Georgia Tech Conference to receive a special rate of $89 per night (valid until October 22, 1999). Travel Discounts: ** Delta Air Lines offers special fares to attendees of Georgia Tech programs. Certain restrictions may apply. For information and reservations, call 1-800-241-6760 and refer to file 123282A (for domestic flights only). To obtain more information & registration form, visit the WWW page: http://exon.biology.gatech.edu/conference or contact us by e-mail: register@conted.swann.gatech.edu Phone: (404) 894-2400 Fax: (404) 894-8925