Confirmed speakers


Keynote
Thomas Lengauer   Max Planck Institute


Session: RNA
Paul Higgs   McMaster University
Todd Lowe   University of California
Peter Stadler   University of Leipzig
Michael Zuker   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


Session: Evolution of protein structure
Brian Golding   McMaster University
Arthur Lesk   Penn State University
David Pollock   Louisiana State
Boris Shakhnovich   Boston University


Session: Systems Biology
John Quackenbush   The Institute for Genomic Research
Nick Luscombe   Yale University
Avi Mayo   Weizmann Institute of Science
Jeff Hasty   University of California


Session: Comparative prokaryotic genomics
John Helmann   Cornell University
James McInerney   National University of Ireland Maynooth
Dawn Field   Oxford University
Nick Thomson   The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute


Session: Databases and ontologies
Susan Davidson   University of Pennsylvania
Midori Harris   European Bioinformatics Institute
Lynette Hirschman   MITRE
Robert Stevens   University of Manchester