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International Workshop
Physical and Chemical Foundations of Bioinformatics Methods
June 18 - 22, 2007
Scientific coordinators:
Markus Porto (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
H. Eduardo Roman (Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Michele Vendruscolo (University of Cambridge, UK)
Organisation:
Claudia Poenisch (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany)
Bioinformatics is a recent discipline developed to organize and analyse the
wealth of biological data generated by large scale programmes such as genome
projects and structural genomics initiatives. Today, this discipline constitutes
a very active and mature area of research that provides efficient algorithms for
a variety of applications, including sequence alignment, gene detection, and
structure comparison. So far, however, the physical and chemical foundations of
the methodologies developed in Bioinformatics have not been explored with the
necessary depth. Progress in understanding the structural properties of
biological entities, including their physical and chemical interactions, can
greatly help to improve existing bioinformatics methods, and ultimately
suggesting new approaches.
We aim at bringing together researchers from different scientific communities
working within the following three main areas: (i) methodological developments
in Bioinformatics, (ii) experimental and (iii) computational studies of the
properties of biological macromolecules. Possible synergies between these
experimental, theoretical, computational, and statistical analysis approaches
are anticipated to take place on two main fronts: to improve our understanding
of biological information storage and processing, and to suggest new methods to
extract this information from biological sequences. When achieved, such
synergies will provide an integrated view of the subject. We hope that our
conference can stimulate such an integration, by letting explore the connections
between these different disciplines and providing a suitable framework for
interaction.
Invited Speakers (* to be confirmed):
| Pierre Baldi (USA) | Edo Kussell (USA) | Shmuel Pietrokovski (Israel) |
| Stefan Bornholdt (Germany) | Michael Lässig (Germany) | Robert Russel (Germany) |
| Ralf Bundschuh (USA)* | Andrew Lee (USA) | Michael Schroeder (Germany) |
| Eytan Domany (Israel) | Pietro Liò (UK) | Daniel Segrè (USA)* |
| Hunter B. Fraser (USA) | Jens Meiler (USA) | Luis Serrano (Germany)* |
| Liisa Holm (Finland) | Leonid Mirny (USA) | Michael Sternberg (UK) |
| Amnon Horovitz (Israel) | Christine Orengo (UK) | Sarah Teichmann (UK) |
| Kevin Karplus (USA) | Angel Ortíz (Spain) | Hans Westerhoff (The Netherlands) |
| Sung-Hou Kim (USA) | Christos Ouzounis (UK)* | Golan Yona (USA) |
Applications are welcome and should be made by using the application form on the conference web page. However, please note that the number of attendees is very limited. The registration fee is 100 Euro, costs for accommodation and meals will be covered by the Max Planck Institute. In exceptional cases, limited funding for travel expenses is available. Please note that childcare is available upon request.
Deadline for applications is March 15, 2007.
For further information please e-mail to: pcfbim07
mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
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