[Sigbioinform-l] 4th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics (ISNB)/2nd Netherlands Bioinformatics Conference (NBIC)

[B.D.C. van Schaik]

NBIC-ISNB 2007
2nd Netherlands Bioinformatics Conference (NBIC)
4th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics (ISNB)
16-19 April 2007, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
http://www.nbic-isnb2007.eu/

You are invited to register and submit an abstract for a contributed
talk, a poster or the application showcase. Deadline for registration
and abstracts: March 15.

 NBIC-ISNB 2007 is a four-day international bioinformatics conference
that includes:
- 2nd Netherlands Bioinformatics Conference (NBIC)
- 4th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics (ISNB)
- Launch of the Dutch Computational Life Sciences research programme (CLSII)
- Master Class bioinformatics
- Application showcase

2nd Netherlands Bioinformatics Conference (NBIC)
The Netherlands Bioinformatics Conference is an initiative of the
Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC). NBIC aims to strengthen and
support the bioinformatics community in the Netherlands through the
initiation of bioinformatics programmes and the organization of events.
The 2nd NBIC meeting (16-17 April) will start with invited lectures on
the special theme protein structure, one of the oldest themes in
bioinformatics. Internationally acknowledged speakers will discuss how
we can understand protein function and protein interaction from 3D
structure.

4th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics (ISNB)
ISNB (17-19 April) focuses on the bioinformatics of biological networks
which involves a range of interconnected multidisciplinary research
topics. Research areas include the quantitative understanding of the
dynamics of regulatory and metabolic networks by using modeling and
simulation techniques, the reconstruction of biological pathways
from experimental data, identification of pathway modules, the analysis
and interpretation of experimental data in the context of biological
networks, the construction and use of (public) pathway databases,
network visualization and the development and use of pathway markup
languages. Biological questions and new experimental techniques
as well as ongoing efforts in (bio)informatics and statistics guide the
development of the next generation of computational methodologies. The
combination of computational and genomics research will accelerate the
detailed understanding of biological networks, which will find many
applications in all application domains of life sciences.

Application showcase
Many bioinformatics projects are aimed at developing specialized
software tools and databases. On Monday at this conference, NBIC
organizes an Application Showcase. You are invited to submit an abstract
describing your software tool or database. This abstract will be
included in the conference proceedings. A committee makes a selection of
abstracts to be invited for a (live) demonstration to the bioinformatics
community in the Netherlands during the NBIC conference. Relevance,
originality and usability will be among the selection criteria. The
conference participants will also be invited to vote for their favourite
application. The winning application will be rewarded with a prize.

Confirmed speakers
NBIC
- Dr Rob Russell Structural Bioinformatics Group, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
- Dr Ruben Abagyan Ruben Abagyan Research Group, The Scripps Research
Institute, La Jolla, USA
- Prof dr Gianni Cesareni Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor
Vergata, Rome, Italy
Confirmed speakers
ISNB
- Dr Sally Leys, Department of Biological Sciences, University of
Alberta, Canada
- Dr Bernard Degnan, Integrative Biology, University of Queensland,
Australia
- Dr Sylvie Tambutté, Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Monaco
- Dr Mikhail Matz, Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Dr Andreas Beyer, Department of Bioengineering, University of
California San Diego, USA
- Dr John Finnerty, Boston University, USA
- Prof Matthias Mann, Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction
Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistrty, Martinsried, Germany
- Dr Yair Field, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
- Dr Edmund J. Crampin, Auckland BIoengineering Institute, The
University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Dr Hans van Beek, Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands


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Barbera D.C. Danz - van Schaik
Email: B.D.vanSchaik at amc.uva.nl

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