Systems Biology & New Sequencing Technologies (SBNST)

Scope



Parallel advances in two relatively disconnected areas of science are boosting our understanding of biological systems. On the one hand, systems biology, with its integration of high-throughput biological data and its emphasis on quantitative modeling and simulation, is providing a global perspective of biology that goes beyond classical reductionist approaches. On the other hand, new sequencing technologies are developing at an enormous speed, and provide whole genome data that revealed previously unexplored genomic features such as functional intergenic regions, copy number variations and other genomic differences between members of the same species. In this meeting, we will gather an inter-disciplinary group of scientists with roots in these two disciplines with the aim to create a forum to discuss new ideas and explore what lies in overlap between these two growing fields.



Invited speakers

• Joe Beechem, Life Technolgies
• Andrea Califano, Columbia University
• Carlos Cordon-Cardo, Columbia University
  
• Michael Egholm, 454 Life Sciences Corporation
• Christian Haudenschield, Sequencing Technologies, Illumina
• Philip M. Kim, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto
  
• Ihor Lemishka, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Arnold Levine, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• Bud Mishra, New York University
• Eric Schadt, PacBio and Sage *
  
• Jeffrey Schloss, National Institutes of Health *
  
• Luis Serrano, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
• Henk Stunnenberg, Nijmegen Center for Molecular Sciences
• Saeed Tavazoie, Princeton University
• Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University
• Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Resear
• Ioannis Xenarios, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Organizers

• Gustavo Stolovitzky (IBM Research, USA)
• Raul Rabadan (Columbia University, USA)
• Pascal Kahlem (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)
• Roderic Guigo (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain)
• Luis Serrano (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain)
  

Registration
Early registration and poster abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2010
Poster acceptance will be announced by May 31, 2010
Online registration

Venue
Auditorium of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)
CRG - Centre for Genomic Regulation
Dr. Aiguader, 88
08003 Barcelona, Spain
www.crg.es

Conference Secretariat

Romina Garrido & Blanka Wysocka

CRG - Centre for Genomic Regulation

Dr. Aiguader, 88

08003 Barcelona, Spain

Tel. +34 93 316 01 10 / 01 45

Fax +34 93 316 00 99