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Bioinformatics Symposium 2005 … A Prelude to ECCB’06
Submitted by Hershel Safer, Secretary of the Israeli Society for
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and ibs2005 Program Committee
member
The 8th Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium (www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~ibs05/)
was held on May 22nd at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU).
Approximately 500 people attended the meeting, which was chaired
by Chen Keasar of BGU and Ron Shamir of Tel Aviv University.
David Sankoff, University of Ottawa, gave the opening
keynote speech: “Rearrangements of partially ordered genomes.”
Rivka Carmi, BGU, spoke about “Mapping genes in isolated populations”
to close the day. Other speakers included Michael Levitt of Stanford
and Israeli researchers Roded Sharan, Naama Barkai, Zohar Yakhini,
Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, and Danny Barash.
Prizes were awarded for the two best student posters
of 70 that were exhibited: Yuval Tabach, Michael Milyavsky, et al.,
Weizmann Institute, “A promoter architecture of human cell
cycle genes implements a fuzzy-logical integration of two tumor
suppressive pathways during in-vitro transformation”; and
Avraham Ben-Shimon et al., Weizmann Institute, “Looking at
enzymes from the inside out: The proximity of catalytic residues
to the molecular centroid can be used for identification of active
sites.”
Ron Unger of Bar Ilan University was chosen president-elect
of the Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
The 2006 Symposium will be part of the 5th European
Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB, www.eccb06.org)
in the resort town of Eilat, Israel.
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