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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

All lectures will take place in Auditorium 236 (2nd floor) of the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center

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

18:10 - 18:50

Keynote Talk
18:50 - 19:50

19:50 - 22:00
Reception
The Global Learning and Conference Center Atrium
   
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
9:00 - 9:40
9:40 - 10:00
Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)
Poster presenters, please set up your poster between7am-10am and finish before 10am on Friday.
Session 3
(10:00 - 12:40)
Chair: Mark Borodovsky (Georgia Tech)
Keynote Talk
10:00 - 11:00
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
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)
Session 4
(14:00 - 15:20)
Chair: Soojin Yi (Georgia Tech)
14:00 - 14:40
14:40 - 15:20
Philip E. Bourne (University of California San Diego)
Nature vs Nurture Studied Using Protein Structure
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
16:30 - 17:10
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
   
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*
8:30 - 9:00*
9:00 - 9:40
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
Natalia Komarova (University of California, Irvine)
Somatic Evolution and Cancer
11:00 - 11:20
Break (Break Area, 2nd Floor)
11:20 - 12:00
Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine)
Charting Chemical Space with Computers
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
14:40 - 15:20
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*
16:10 - 16:50
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.
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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