ISMB 2006: Fortaleza, Brazil, August 6-10

Hosted by

SIGs and Satellite Meetings

Student Council Symposium

Late Breaking Poster Session Call

Call for PLoS Track

Call for SCS2 Posters

Academic Demos

Industry Demos

Travel Fellowships

Poster Guidelines & Schedule

Conference Chair

Goran Neshich, EMBRAPA/CNPTIA, Campinas, Brazil

Conference Vice-chair

Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, LNCC/MCT, Petrópolis, Brazil

Program Chairs

Phil Bourne, University of California, San Diego, USA
Søren Brunak, University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Advisory Committee

Amos Bairoch, SwissProt, Geneva, Switzerland
Barry Honig, Columbia University, New York, USA
Nobuhiro Go, Jaeri, Kyoto, Japan

Area Chairs

Comparative Genomics
Jean-Michel Claverie, University of Mediterranée, Marseilles, France
Eugene Koonin, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA

Databases & Data Integration
Rolf Apweiler, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Minoru Kanehisa, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Evolution and Phylogeny
Manolo Gouy, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
Tandy Warnow, The University of Texas, Austin, USA

Human Health
Maricel Kann, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH., Rockville, MD, USA
Marco Punta, Columbia University, New York, USA
Predrag Radivojac, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, USA
Yanay Ofran, Columbia University, New York, USA

Molecular and Supramolecular Dynamics
Diana Murray, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Eugene Shakhnovich, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Ontologies
Anand Kumar, Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, Bangalore, India
Helen Parkinson, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Robert Stevens, The University of Manchester, UK

Proteomics
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Zhaolei Zhang, University of Toronto, Canada

Sequence Analysis
Søren Brunak, University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Nick Grishin, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA

Structural Bioinformatics
Rob Russell, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

Systems Biology
Joel Bader, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Chris Sander, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Text Mining & Information Extraction
Andrey Rzhetsky, Columbia University, New York, USA
Alfonso Valencia, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid, Spain\

Transcriptomics
Hanah Margalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Michael Zhang, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA

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Poster Committee Members

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Software Demo Committee

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Steering Committee (SC)

Michael Gribskov, ISCB President, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Goran Neshich, ISMB 2006 Conference Chair, EMBRAPA/CNPTIA, Campinas, Brazil
Janet Kelso, ISCB Conferences Committee Chair, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Hershel Safer, ISCB Conferences Committee Past Chair, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
David Rocke, ISCB Treasurer, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
David States, ISMB 2005 Conference Chair, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Barb Bryant, ISCB Vice President, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, USA
BJ Morrison, ISCB Executive Officer, San Diego, CA, USA
Steven Leard, ISCB/ISMB Conference Liaison, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Local Organizing Committee

Goran Neshich, EMBRAPA/CNPTIA, Campinas-SP, Brazil
Paula Kuzer Falcão, EMBRAPA/CNPTIA, Campinas-SP, Brazil
Álvaro Seixas Neto, EMBRAPA/CNPTIA, Campinas-SP, Brazil
Gonçalo A. G. Pereira, Unicamp, Campinas-SP, Brazil
João Carlos Setubal, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, USA
João Paulo Kitajima, Alellyx Applied Genomics and LBI, Unicamp, Campinas-SP, Brazil
José Antonio Maranho, Vertical Events, Campinas-SP, Brazil
Junior Barrera, USP, São Paulo-SP, Brazil
Sandro José de Souza, Ludwig Inst., São Paulo-SP, Brazil
Glacius Oliva, USP, São Carlos-SP, Brazil
Richard Charles Garrat, USP, São Carlos-SP, Brazil
Diana Magalhães de Oliveira, UECE, Fortaleza, Brazil
Fernando Barroso, USP, Riberão Preto-SP, Brazil
Sergio Verjovski-Almeida, USP, São Paulo-SP, Brazil

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)

Conference Chair: Goran Neshich, EMBRAPA/CNPTIA, Campinas, Brazil
Conference Vice-Chair: Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, LNCC/MCT, Petrópolis, Brazil
Conference advisor (Europe): Amos Bairoch, SwissProt, Geneva, Switzerland
Conference advisor (North America): Barry Honig, Columbia University, New York, USA
Conference advisor (Asia-Australia): Nobuhiro Go, Jaeri, Kyoto, Japan
Program Committee Co-Chair: Søren Brunak, University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Program Committee Co-Chair: Phil Bourne, University of California, San Diego, USA
Tutorial Session Chair: Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Poster Session Chair: Junior Barreira, USP, São Paulo-SP
PLoS Oral Presentations Chair: Barbara Bryant, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, USA
Scientific Demo Chair: Sandro Souza, Ludwig Inst., São Paulo-SP
Past Conference Program Chair: David States, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Logistical Committee (LC)

Conference Chair: Goran Neshich, EMBRAPA/CNPTIA, Campinas, Brazil
PCO: Joe Maranho, Vertical Events, Campinas-SP, Brazil
PCO: Neusa Maranho, Vertical Events, Campinas-SP, Brazil
Website: Douglas Umaki Morita, EMBRAPA/CNPTIA, Campinas, Brazil
Poster Chair (LC): Fernando Barroso, USP, Riberão Preto-SP
Tutorial Chair (LC): Paula Kuser, EMBRAPA/CNPTIA, Campinas-SP
Demo Chair (LC): João Kitajima, Alellyx Applied Genomics and LBI, Unicamp, Campinas-SP
Liaison: Steven Leard, ISCB/ISMB Conference Liaison, Edmonton, AB, Canada