SYSTEMS BIOLOGY:
GLOBAL REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION
March 23 - 26, 2006
Abstract Deadline: January 25, 2006

Organizers:
Peggy Farnham, University of California, Davis
Jack Keene, Duke University Medical Center
Nir Friedman, Hebrew University, Israel

pre-meeting one-day workshops past program

We are pleased to announce the fourth Cold Spring Harbor winter biotechnology conference on Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression, which will begin at 7:30 pm on Thursday, March 23 and run through lunch on Sunday, March 26, 2006. 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.

Keynote Speaker: Alan Aderem, Institute for Systems Biology

Topics & Session Chairs:
Computational Approaches to Identifying Cis-Regulatory Elements (Nir Friedman)

Advances in Detection of Protein/DNA-Interactions in Living Cells (Peggy Farnham)

Transcriptional & Posttranscriptional Network Modeling
(Jack Keene)

Comparative Genomics of Global Gene Regulation
(Susan Mango)

Emerging Technologies & Concepts in Systems Biology (Pam Silver)

Invited Speakers:
Brenda Andrews, University of Toronto
Julia Bailey-Serres, University of California, Riverside
Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science
Craig Benham, University of California, Davis
Jonathan Eisen, Institute for Genomic Research
David Haussler, University of California Santa Cruz / HHMI
Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego
Manolis Kellis, MIT
Michael Levine, University of California, Berkeley
Lee Lim, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Merck & Co.
Susan Mango, University of Utah
Richard Myers, Stanford University School of Medicine
Erin O'Shea, Harvard University
Bing Ren, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Edward Rubin, Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
David Schwartz , University of Wisconsin, Madison
Eran Segal, Weizmann Institute of Science
Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School/DFCI
Michael Snyder, Yale University
Lisa Stubbs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Zhiping Weng, Boston University
Wyeth Wasserman, University of British Columbia

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline.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 may be supported in part by funds provided by the National Science Foundation

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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.