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Special Sessions

ISMB/ECCB 2009 will feature Special Session presentations throughout the conference June 29 – July 2. Special Sessions have the purpose of introducing the scientific community to relevant scientific issues and topics that are typically not within the focus of an ISMB meeting. Preliminary program information on Special Sessions is noted below.
(Schedules subject to change)

Special Session 1: Genomic epidemiology
Special Session 2: Orthology Inference
Special Session 3: Membrane proteins – from biosynthesis to drug design
Special Session 4: PLoS
Special Session 5: Next Steps in eQTL Analysis: Gaining Insight at the Systems Level
Special Session 6: Regulatory Genome Architecture and Noncoding Mutations in Human Disease


Special Session 1: Genomic epidemiology
Organizer(s): Juni Palmgren
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm University, Sweden

Date:   Monday, June 29
Start Time:  10:45 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Room:  K1

Special Session 2: Orthology Inference
Organizer(s): Erik Sonnhammer
Stockholm Bioinformatics Centre, Sweden
Michael Ashburner
Cambridge University, England

Date: Monday, June 29
Start Time: 2:15 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
Room:  K1

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Special Session 3: Membrane proteins – from biosynthesis to drug design
Organizer(s): Gunnar von Heijne
Stockholm University, Sweden
http://www.dbb.su.se/Faculty/Gunnar_von_Heijne

Date: Tuesday, June 30
Start Time: 10:45 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Room: K1

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Special Session 4: Advances and Challenges in Computational Biology
Hosted By: (hosted by PLOS)
Organizer(s): Barb Bryant
PLoS Committee

Date: Wednesday, July 1
Start Time: 10:45 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Room: K1

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Special Session 5: Next Steps in eQTL Analysis: Gaining Insight at the Systems Level
Organizer(s): Andreas Beyer
Biotechnology Center
TU Dresden, Germany

Date: Wednesday, July 1
Start Time: 2:15 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
Room: K1

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Special Session 6: Regulatory Genome Architecture and Noncoding Mutations in Human Disease
Organizer(s): Gabriela Loots
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Livermore, California, USA

Ivan Ovcharenko
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Date: Thursday, July 2
Start Time: 10:45 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Room: K1

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