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Genome Informatics: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Nov 02 to Nov 05, 2011
The eleventh Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust conference on Genome Informatics will be held at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The meeting will begin on at 7.30pm on Wednesday, November 2, and finish with lunch on Saturday, November 5, 2011.
The focus for this conference is large-scale genome informatics. Biology is an experimental science that is experiencing an explosion of new data. This requires biologists to increase the scale and sophistication in the information technology used for their research. The conference scope encompasses the management and the analysis of these data, such as whole genome comparisons within and among species and strains, the analysis of results from high throughput experiments to uncover cellular pathways and molecular interactions, and the design of effective algorithms to identify regulatory sequence motifs.
The conference brings together the leading scientists in this growing field, and we strongly encourage researchers from other large scale information handling disciplines to attend. The majority of oral presentations will be drawn from openly submitted abstracts.
Keynote Speaker :
Evan Eichler, University of Washington
Topics & Discussion Leaders:
Population and Personal Genomics
Li Ding, Washington University School of Medicine
Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Transcriptomics, Alternative Splicing and Gene Predictions
Gunnar Raetsch, Max Planck Society, Germany
Steven Jones, BC Cancer Agency, Canada
Epigenomics and Non-Coding Genome
John Rinn, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Medical School
Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Baylor College of Medicine
Databases, Data Mining, Visualization and Curation
Alex Bateman, The Sanger Centre, UK
Ting Wang, Washington University
Sequencing Pipelines and Assembly
Zemin Ning, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Michael Schatz, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics
Serafim Batzoglou, Stanford University
Manolis Kellis, MIT
More information on the program is available at Cold Harbor Spring Laboratory