2nd International Conference

C a l l f o r P o s t e r s

2nd International Conference
on
Bioinformatics Research and Development
BIRD’08

www.birdconf.org

Technical University of Vienna= , Austria July 7 – 9, 2008

Scope of the conference:
The primary focus of BIRD '08 is to provide researchers and users in the fi= eld of bioinformatics a forum in = which to interact about new research directions, developments, and software/web services.
It encompasses the methods of solving biological, medical, or chemical prob= lems by computer science, machine learning, or information processing tools.
The conceptual level of the methods range from theoretical approaches throu= gh the design of algorithms, models, and information processing systems throug= h to the development of software packages and web services.

The program committee seeks contributions, which topics include, but are not limited to:=

Algebraic Biology
Databases & Data Integration
Drug Design
Ontologies & Textmi= ning
Evolution and Phylogene= tics
Genomics
Gene and Splice Site Recognition
Machine learning and da= ta analysis
Gene Expression/regulat= ion & Microarrays
MicroRNA and RNAi
Molecular Diagnostics a= nd Treatment Support
Molecular Dynamics
Pathways, Networks, Sys= tems Biology
Phylogenetics & Molecular Evolution
Protein & RNA Struc= ture and Function
Proteomics
Sequence Analysis & Alignment
SNPs and Haplotyping
System Biology and Modelling

Poster Submission Details:

Posters should describe original, interesting, and sol= id scientific content that is relevant to bioinformatics and computational biology.

Authors are invited to submit condensed descriptions of ongoing work in English which will be displayed during the meeting.
Poster abstracts shoul= d be submitted by March 15, 2008, using the online poster submission form. They will be reviewed to ensure that the content is appropriate. We will attempt= to accept as many posters as possible, subject to space restrictions.

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- Abstracts should not exceed one A4 page.
- All abstracts must be submitted by March 15, 2008.

A= ll questions related to the BIRD ‘08 poster session should be directed to the BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office@birdconf.org)

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Short papers (max. 4 pages) of all accepted posters wi= ll be published by the Austrian Computer Society (OCG).
The presenting author = of each accepted poster must register for the conference prior to May 15, 2008, in order for= the poster to be included in the program. Presenting authors are expecte= d to attend the poster session.

Honorary Co-Chairs:=

H= einz Engl, University of Linz,= Austria

R= udolf Freund, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

A= marnath Gupta, SDSC o= f the University of Califo= rnia San Diego, USA

V= ladimir Marik, Czech Technical Univers= ity, Czech Republic

C= hris Sander, MSKCC - Computational = Biology Center, USA

A= Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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General Co-Chairs: =

R= obert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon Univer= sity, USA<= /o:p>

R= oland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria

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Organizing Chair:

G= abriela Wagner, DEXA Society, Austria

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Poster Session Co-Chairs:

D= jork-Arné Clevert, Signature Diagnostics= , Germany

R= oland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria

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Program Committee:<= /p>

W= erner Aigner, FAW, Austria

F= uat Akal, University of Basel, Switzerland

T= atsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan

V= asco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

W= alid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA

R= ubén Armañanzas Arnedillo, University of the Basque Country, <= /span>

S= antosh Atanur, C-DAC, India

B= rian Aufderheide, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, USA

R= olf Backofen, University of Freiburg, Germany

L= uis Bagatolli, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

P= eter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

K= halid Benabdeslem, University of Lyon1 - LIESP, France

C= hristian Blaschke, Bioalma Madrid, Spain

J= acek Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Brigitte Boeckmann, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland

Andreas M. Boehm, Rudolf-Virchow-Center for Experiment= al Biomedicine, Germany

Veselka Boeva, Technical University of Plovdiv, Bulgar= ia

Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Sweden

Anthony Bonner, University of Toronto, Canada

Roberta Bosotti, Nerviano Medical Science s.r.l., Ital= y

Timo Breit, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bruno Buchberger, University of Linz, Austria

Philipp Bucher, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and, Switzerland

Rita Casadio, University of Bologna, Italy

Sònia Casillas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelo= na, Spain

Silvana Castano, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, It= aly

Bulbul Chakravarti, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied= Life Sciences, USA

Belinda Chang, University of Toronto, Canada

Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Rosana Chehín, CONICET-Argentine, Argentina

Phoebe Chen, Deakin University, Australia

Cindy Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA

Francis Y.L. Chin, The University of Hong Kong, Hong K= ong

Bin Cui, Peking University, China

Coral del Val Muñoz, University of Granada, Spa= in

Sabine Dietmann, GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany

Zhihong Ding, University of California, Davis, USA

Pierre Dönnes, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Switzer= land

Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA

Silke Eckstein, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Technical University of Braunschwe= ig, Germany

Ingvar Eidhammer, The University of Bergen, Norway

Domenec = Farre, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain

Pedro Fernandes, Inst.Gulbenkian de Ciência, Por= tugal

Jorge H. Fernandez, EMBRAPA, Brazil

Christoph M. Flamm, University of Vienna, Austria

Javier Forment Millet, Universidad Politécnica = de Valencia,

Christoph M. Friedrich, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany

Cornelius Frömmel, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Michal J. Gajda, International Institute of Molecular = and Cell Biology, Poland

Rachelle Gaudet, Harvard University, USA

Zuzanne Gaudet, Harvard University, USA

Alejandro Giorgetti, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy

Aaron Golden, National University of Ireland, Ireland<= /p>

Joaquin Goni, University of Navarra, Spain

Pawel Gorecki, Warsaw University, Poland

Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell,= USA

Hendrik Hache, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Gene= tics, Germany

Javier Herrero, EMBL-EBI, UK

Volker Heun, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität M&uum= l;nchen, Germany

Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, USA

Tao-Wie Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Ela Hunt, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Lars Kaderali, University of Heidelberg, Viroquant Res= earch Group Modeling, Germany

Ju Han Kim, Seoul National University College of Medic= ine, Korea

Erich Peter Klement, University of Linz, Austria

Lubos Klucar, Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia

Ina Koch, Technical University of Applied Sciences Ber= lin, Germany

Anton HJ Koning, Erasmus MC, Netherlands

Hanka Kozankiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, P= oland

Martin Krallinger, National Center of Cancer Research (CNIO), Spain

Stefan Kramer, Technical University of Munich, Germany=

Michal Krátký, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

David Kreil, University of Natural Resources and Appli= ed Life Sciences, Austria

Arun Krishnan, Keio University, Japan

Tony Kusalik, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Gorka Lasso-Cabrera, University of Wales Swansea, UK

Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Tech, USA

Jorge Amigo Lechuga, Centro Nacional de Genotipado, Sp= ain

Marc F. Lensink, SCMBB, Belgium

Guohui Lin, University of Alberta, Canada

Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales, Austral= ia

Stefano Lise, University College London, UK

Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Università della Calab= ria, Italy

Patrick May, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany

Shannon McWeeney, Oregon Health & Science Universi= ty, USA

Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, Université d'Artois, Fr= ance

Henning Mersch, RWTH-Aachen, Germany

Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Baylor College of Medicine, = USA

Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan

Francisco Montero, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spa= in

Burkhard Morgenstern, University of Göttingen, Ge= rmany

Sach Mukherjee, University of Warwick, USA

Norbert Müller, University of Linz, Austria

Brendan Mumey, Montana State University, USA

Tim Nattkemper, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Jean-Christophe Nebel, Kingston University, UK

See Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapo= re

Vit Novacek, National University of Ireland, Galway, I= reland

Boris Novikov, University of St-Petersburg, Russia

Klaus Obermayer, Technical University of Berlin, Germa= ny

Bjorn Olsson, University of Skovde, Sweden

Allan Orozco, School of Medicine, UCR, Costa Rica

Jean Peccoud, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Jose M. Peña, Linköping University , Swede= n

Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China

Francisco Pinto, ITQB, University of Lisbon, Portugal<= /p>

Uwe Plikat, Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland

Thomas Ploetz, University of Dortmund, Germany

Adam Podhorski, CEIT, Spain

Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, USA

C.V.S.Siva Prasad, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India

Steve Qin, University of Michigan, USA

Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia

Axel Rasche, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Geneti= cs, Germany

Dietrich Rebholz, European Bioinformatics Institute, U= K

Peter Robinson, Humboldt-Universität, Germany

David Rocke, University of California, USA

Paolo Romano, National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Italy

Angel Rubio, CEIT, Spain

Cristina Rubio-Escudero, University of Granada, Spain<= /p>

Victor Sabbia, Laboratorio de Organización y Evolución del Genoma, Uruguay

Hershel Safer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Nick Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University, Japan

Meena K. Sakharkar, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Francisca Sánchez Jiménez, University of Málaga, Spain

Guido Sanguinetti, University of Sheffield, UK

Clare Sansom, Birkbeck College, London, UK

Roberto Santana, University of the Basque Country, Spa= in

Kengo Sato, Computational Biology Research Center, AIS= T, Japan

Kenji Satou, JAIST, Japan

Alexander Schliep, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany

Wolfgang Schreiner, Medical University of Vienna, Aust= ria

Torsten Schwede, University of Basel, Switzerland

Angel Sevilla Camins, Universität Stuttgart, Germ= any

Denis Shestakov, University of Turku, Finland

Florian Sieker, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

Tom Slezak, Lawrence Livermore National Lab L-174, USA=

Sagi Snir, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Dimitri Soshnikov, Moscow Aviation Technical Universit= y, Microsoft Russia, Russia

Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig, Germany

Stefan Stanczyk, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Boris Steipe, University of Toronto, Canada

Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Rep= ublic

Ashish V Tendulkar, Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, India

Todt Tilman, HAN University, Netherlands

Thodoros Topaloglou, University of Toronto, Canada

Todd Treangen, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, S= pain

Oswaldo Trelles, University of Malaga, Spain

Elena Tsiporkova, R&D Group, Flemish Radio & Television, Belgium

Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Dave Ussery, The Technical University of Denmark, Denm= ark

Paul van der Vet, University of Twente, The Netherland= s

Antoine H.C. van Kampen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherla= nds

Jean-Philippe Vert, Center for Computational Biology, = Ecole des Mines de Paris, France

Allegra Via, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Susana Vinga, INESC-ID, Portugal

Peter Vojtáš, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Jens Volkert, University of Linz, Austria

Arndt von Haeseler, University of Vienna, Austria

Dirk Walther, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany

Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong<= /p>

Georg Weiller, Australian National University, Austral= ia

David Wild, University of Warwick, UK

Viacheslav Wolfengagen, JurInfoR-MSU Institute for Con= temporary Education, Russia

Wolfram Wöß, Universit of Linz, Austria

Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, U= SA

F= ilip Zelezny, Czech Technical Unive= rsity, Czech Republic

S= ongmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Scie= nces, China

Y= ifeng Zheng, University of Pennsylva= nia, USA<= /o:p>

X= iaofeng Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia

Y= ongluan Zhou, EPFL, Switzerl= and

Q= iang Zhu, The University of Michigan, USA

F= rank Gerrit Zoellner, University of Bergen, Norway

M= oti Zviling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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Important Dates:

Submission of Poster descriptions: M= arch 15, 2008
Notification of Accepta= nce: April 15, 2008
Camera-ready Copies of short papers:= May 15, 2008

For further inquiries, please contact:

B= IRD Conference Organisation Office (office@birdconf.org)