2nd Bioinformatics Symposium

Data Bases, Genomes, Networks, and Folds September 16, 2003

Invitation
High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) and Umeå Centre for Molecular Pathogenesis (UCMP) cordially invite you to participate in the 2nd annual Bioinformatics Symposium. The symposium is organized in collaboration with the Department of Computing Science, Umeå Institute of Technology (UmTH), Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine (UCMM), and Umeå Plant Science Center (UPSC).
Scope
The aim of the annual symposium is to stimulate ongoing multidisciplinary activities in Bioinformatics at Umeå University and to foster new activities and collaboration around challenging problems and opportunities in the field.

The program includes presentations by distinguished Bioinformatics scientists as well as local researchers.
Dates and Location
The symposium will be held on September 16, 2003 in the Betula Hall, Building 6M, Norrlands universitetssjukhus, Umeå.
Detailed Program
Tuesday September 16 - Betula Hall

09.30	Registration
10.15	Welcome and Opening
10.20	Mining biological knowledge from expression time profile data and literature Jan Komorowski, The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala University and The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
11.10	Multivariate data analysis of microarray data Anders Berglund, Organic Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Umeå University
11.40	Multivariate analysis of a protein-stability database Max Bylesjö, UCMP, Umeå University
12.10	Lunch at Universum
13.40	Predicting old and new folds for genome sequences David T. Jones, Dept. of Computer Science, Bioinformatics Unit, University College London, UK
14.30	Structure anchored HMMs Jeanette Tångrot, Dept. of Computing Science and UCMP, Umeå University
15.00	Coffee
15.30	The Populus genome program Stefan Jansson, UPSC and Dept. of Plant Physiology, Umeå University
16.20	Closing

Participation and RegistrationThere is no fee for the symposium. All participants registred before September 11 will receive free coffee and lunch. Note that the number of seats is limited and therefore the participants are registered on a "first come first served basis".

Participation in the symposium without attending lunch is also possible. For details see the registration form.

Registration is closed.

We need your registration no later than September 11, 2003.

Questions are answered by Lena Hellman (lena.hellman@hpc2n.umu.se).