SYSTEMS BIOLOGY:
GLOBAL REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION
March 27 - 30, 2008
Abstract Deadline: January 16, 2008

Organizers:
Julia Bailey-Serres, University of California, Riverside
Martha Bulyk, Harvard Medical School
Harmen Bussemaker, Columbia University
Bing Ren, University of California, San Diego

pre-meeting one-day workshops past program

We are pleased to announce the sixth Cold Spring Harbor winter biotechnology conference on Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression, which will begin at 7:30 pm on Thursday, March 27 and run through lunch on Sunday, March 30, 2008. 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:
Robert Waterston, University of Washington

Topics:
Genomic Regulatory Elements
Transcriptional Regulatory Networks
Evolution of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks
Epigenetics and Transcription
Post-Transcriptional Processes
Analysis of Transcriptional Dynamics in Cells

Invited Speakers:
Phil Benfey, Duke University
Bradley Bernstein, MGH/Broad Institute
Chris Burge, MIT
Sue Celniker, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Job Dekker, University of Massachusetts
Aimee Dudley, Harvard Medical School
Nir Friedman, Hebrew University, Israel
Guri Giaever, University of Toronto, Canada
Michael Hawrylycz, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Tim Hughes, University of Toronto, Canada
Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego
Robert Kingston, MGH/Harvard Medical School
Hao Li, University of California, San Francisco
X. Shirley Liu, Harvard Medical School
Mike Snyder, Yale University
John Stamatoyannopoulos, University of Washington
Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University
Marvin Wickens, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sunney Xie, Harvard University
Michael Zhang, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline.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 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

We have funds to provide partial scholarships for individuals who are US citizens/permanent residents from minority groups under-represented in the life sciences. Please provide justification in writing to meetings@cshl.edu and state your financial needs. Preference will be given to those applying who submit abstracts to the meeting.

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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.