SYSTEMS BIOLOGY:
GLOBAL REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION
March 17 - 20, 2005
Abstract Deadline: January 21, 2005

Organizers:
Peggy Farnham, University of California, Davis
Jack Keene, Duke University Medical Center
Saeed Tavazoie, Princeton University

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We are pleased to announce the third Cold Spring Harbor winter biotechnology conference on Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression, which will begin at 7:30 pm on Thursday, March 17 and run through lunch on Sunday, March 20, 2005. The conference is intended to foster cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas and expertise between experimentalists and computational biologists interested in the organization and control of complex transcription networks in eukaryotes. While a number of speakers have been invited, please note that the majority of oral presentations will be drawn from openly submitted abstracts.

Tentative Topics:
* Computational Approaches to Identifying Cis-Regulatory Elements
* Advances in Detection of Transcription Factor/DNA-Interactions
* Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Network Modeling
* Comparative Genomics of Global Gene Regulation
* Emerging Technologies in Systems Biology

Invited Speakers:
Hamid Bolouri, Institute of Systems Biology
Martha Bulyk, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Andrea Califano, Columbia University
Michael Eisen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Audrey Gasch: University of Wisconsin, Madison
David Gifford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dan Herschlag, Stanford University
Oliver Hobert, Columbia University
Timothy Hughes, University of Toronto
Leonid Kruglyak, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jason Lieb, University of North Carolina
Shirley Liu, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Aviv Regev, Harvard University
Pamela Silver, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. Status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Apply in writing to meetings@cshl.edu stating need for financial support - preference is given to those submitting abstracts.

We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in March.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by:

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.