Conferences 2007

4th Integrative Bioinformatics Conference

Conference organisers:
Jacob Koehler: Rothamsted Research, UK
Martin Kuiper: University of Ghent, Belgium
Ralf Hofestaedt: Bielefeld University, Germany

In the current post genomic era, the functional characterisation of genes is more challenging than the actual sequencing. A combination of many new high throughput techniques is used to integrate and extract information from large quantity of data, shifting the research focus of bioinformatics from sequence analysis techniques to Integrative Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, enabling Systems Biology.
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Date and Venue: September 10-12, 2007; Ghent, Belgium

Symbiosis: 13th European Congress on Biotechnology - functional genomics & technology symposium

Symposium organiser:
Mike Taussig: Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK

This symposium forms part of the larger 13th ECB conference which has 5 main themes: Functional Genomics & Technology, Industrial Biotechnology, SymBIOsiS – Science, Industry & Society, Health & Medicine, Green Biotechnology. The Functional Genomics & Technology Symposium will cover a range of topics from high-throughput reagent-based tools and technologies to comparative genomics, systems biology and nanotechnology.
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Date and Venue: September 16-19, 2007; Barcelona, Spain

ESF-UB European Conference on Synthetic Biology: Design, Programming and Optimisation of Biological Systems

Organisers:
Alfonso Valencia: Spanish National Cancer Center (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Natalio Krasnogor: University of Nottingham School of Computer Science & Information Technology, UK
Victor de Lorenzo: CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Sven Panke: ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Synthetic Biology seeks to exploit methods that are regularly used within computational sciences and engineering disciplines to help biologists to build “designer” biological entities that could benefit society (e.g. environmental remediation, healthcare strategies, etc). It is with this goal in mind that this conference will seek to collect and showcase world-class interdisciplinary research in Synthetic Biology.
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Date and Venue: November 24-29, 2007; Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain