CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PARTICIPATION

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Meeting (ITG-Fachgruppe Bio-Informationstheorie)
"Gene Regulation and Information Theory"
Halle/Saale, Germany, April 17-19, 2013
Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2013
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We are pleased to announce the first meeting on Gene Regulation and
Information Theory taking place at Halle/Saale, Germany, from April 17
through April 19, 2013.

Modern biology is under change. New experimental techniques now allow
measuring biological processes with high precision, leading to an
avalanche of high-throughput data, but also to the exciting opportunity of
answering fundamental scientific questions that could not be addressed in
the past. The development of new theoretical concepts, modern methods for
data analysis, and mathematical models has started to play a central role
in this adventure.

Moreover, the emergence of truly interdisciplinary research teams uniting
scientists from very different fields under one roof have started to
change the way in which research in the biosciences is being conducted.
The meeting intends to stimulate such interdisciplinary collaborations by
bringing together scientists from molecular biology, information theory,
and related areas who are interested in analysing and modelling biological
processes, this time with a special focus on the exciting and rapidly
evolving field of gene regulation.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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- Ann Ehrenhofer-Murray (University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg-Essen,
Germany)
- Artemis Hatzigeorgiou (Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander
Fleming, Athens, Greece)
- Charles Lawrence (Brown University, Providence, USA)
- Eric van Nimwegen (University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)
- Ulf Andersson Orom (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin,
Germany)


KEY DATES
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- Submission of abstracts: April 1, 2013
- Notification: April 4, 2013


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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- Martin Bossert, Ulm
- Karin Breunig, Halle
- Ivo Grosse, Halle
- Steffen Schober, Ulm


ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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- Karin Breunig, Halle
- Andre Gohr, Halle
- Ivo Grosse, Halle
- Kathleen Kletsch, Halle
- Constance Mehlgarten, Halle
- Steffen Schober, Ulm


LOCATION
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Institute of Computer Science
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Von-Seckendorff-Platz 1
06120 Halle/Saale, Germany


CONTACT
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Steffen Schober
E-Mail: steffen.schober@uni-ulm.de
Phone: +49 (0)731/50-31532


FURTHER INFORMATION
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http://www.uni-ulm.de/~sschober/fachgruppe/Meeting2013/Meeting2013.shtml


We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting meeting at Halle/Saale on
April 17, 2013.

Karin Breunig, Andre Gohr, Ivo Grosse, Kathleen Kletsch, Constance
Mehlgarten, and Steffen Schober