Thursday, November 17, 2005  | 
  
   
    17:00 - 20:00  | 
    Registration, outside Auditorium 236, Global Learning Center  | 
  
   
    Session 1 (18:00 - 
19:50)  |  
    Chair: Andrey Gorin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | 
   
 
   
    18:00 - 18:10  | 
     
      
	  Opening Welcome Speech
  
	 François  Sainfort (Georgia Tech) 
  	 Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs 
	 William W. George Professor of Health Systems College of Engineering
	  
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    18:10 - 18:50  | 
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    Keynote Talk 
    18:50 - 19:50      | 
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     19:50 - 22:00 
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     Reception  
The Global Learning and Conference Center Atrium   | 
  
   
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    Friday, November 18, 2005  | 
  
   
    7:00 - 8:00  | 
    Continental Breakfast  | 
  
   
    7:30 - 9:30  | 
    Registration  | 
  
  
    Session 2 (8:00 - 9:40)  | 
    Chair:  Eva Lee (Georgia Tech)  | 
  
   
    8:00 - 8:20  | 
    Peter Good (NIH)  
        Current Opportunities at the National Institutes of Health  | 
  
   
    8:20 - 9:00  | 
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    9:00 - 9:40  | 
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    9:40 - 10:00  | 
    Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor) 
      Poster presenters, please set up your poster between7am-10am and finish before 10am on Friday.
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    Session 3 (10:00 - 12:40)  | 
    Chair:  Mark Borodovsky (Georgia Tech)  | 
  
  
    Keynote Talk 10:00 - 11:00  | 
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    |  11:00 - 11:20 | 
    Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor) | 
  
   
    | 11:20 - 12:00 | 
    Volker Brendel (Iowa State University) 
            Incorporation of Splice Site Probability Models for Non-canonical Introns Improves Gene Structure Prediction in Plants | 
  
   
    12:00 - 12:40  | 
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    12:40 - 14:00  | 
    Lunch (Rooms 330 and 331 of the Conference Center)  | 
  
     
    13:30 - 14:00  | 
    Peter Good (NIH) 
		Meet with Potential PIs to Provide a More Focused Advice on How to Write NIH Grants 
        (Room 318, Global Learning Center)
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    Session 4 (14:00 - 15:20)  | 
    Chair:  Soojin Yi (Georgia Tech)  | 
  
   
    14:00 - 14:40  | 
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    14:40 - 15:20  | 
    Philip E. Bourne (University of California San Diego) 
          Nature vs Nurture Studied Using Protein Structure 
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    15:20 - 15:50  | 
    Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)  | 
  
    
    Session 5 (15:50 - 17:00)  | 
    Chair:  Eileen T. Kraemer  (The University of Georgia)  | 
  
   
    15:50 - 16:30  | 
        
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    16:30 - 17:10  | 
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    17:10 - 17:30  | 
    Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)  | 
  
    
    Poster Session 
      (17:30 - 19:30)  | 
    Please set up your poster before 10:00AM on Friday. 
    The authors of posters with odd numbers are expected to be near their posters from 17:30 to 18:30 
      The authors of posters with even numbers are expected to be near their posters from 18:30 to 19:30 | 
  
   
    | 19:30 -  | 
    Dinner on your own | 
  
   
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    Saturday, November 19, 2005  | 
  
   
    7:00 - 8:00  | 
    Continental Breakfast  | 
  
   
    8:00 - 10:00  | 
    Registration (continued)  | 
  
    
    Session 6 (8:00 - 9:40)  | 
    Chair:  Eberhard Voit (Georgia Tech)  | 
  
   
    8:00 - 8:30*  | 
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    8:30 - 9:00*  | 
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    9:40 - 10:00  | 
    Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)  | 
  
    
    Session 7 (10:00 - 12:40)  | 
    Chair: Inna Dubchak (Laurence Berkeley National Lab) | 
   
  
    Keynote Talk 10:00 - 11:00  | 
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    11:00 - 11:20  | 
    Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)  | 
  
    11:20 - 12:00  | 
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    12:00 - 12:40  | 
    Andrew Ellington (University of Texas at Austin) 
    Designing RNA Conformational Changes | 
  
   
    12:40 - 14:00  | 
    Lunch (Rooms 330 and 331 of the Conference Center)  | 
  
    
    Session 8 (14:00 - 15:20)  | 
    Chair:  Eugene V. Koonin (NCBI/NIH)  | 
  
   
    14:00 - 14:40  | 
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    14:40 - 15:20  | 
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    15:20 - 15:40  | 
    Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)  | 
  
   
    Session 9 (15:40 - 17:00)  | 
    Chair:  Dmitrij Frishman (Technische Universität, Munich, 
Germany)  | 
  
  
   
      15:40 - 16:10*  | 
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    16:10 - 16:50  | 
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    16:50 - 17:00  | 
    Mark Borodovsky (Georgia Tech) Concluding Remarks for the Speaker's Sessions  | 
  
   
    Poster Session 
      (17:00 - 19:00)  | 
    The authors of posters with odd numbers are expected to be near their posters from 17:00 to 18:00. 
      The authors of posters with even numbers are expected to be near their posters from 18:00 to 19:00. 
      Please Promptly Remove Everything by 19:30. 
      The building will be locked then and you will have to pick up your stuff on Monday, Nov 21 before 12:00PM.
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    | 19:00 - 22:30 | 
    Conference Banquet and Award Ceremony (for all attendees) 
	Mark Borodovsky and Eva Lee (Georgia Tech) 
 The Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center Dining Room | 
  
   
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    *Contributed talks 
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