| PSB Extended Workshop on Alternative Splicing | |
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United States - Hawaii - The Big Island |
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| Hosted by: | PSB |
| Venue: | the Fairmont Orchid Hotel |
| Dates: | Jan 06, 2004 through Jan 07, 2004 |
| Event Registration: | 2003-11-07 through 2004-01-06 |
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Description |
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| PSB Extended Workshop on Alternative Splicing January 6th, 2004, the Fairmont Orchid, Big Island of Hawaii Co-chairs: Hui Wang, Chris Lee, Ueng-cheng Yang and John Blume In addition to the originally planned Alternative Splicing conference on the morning of Jan. 7th, we are adding a full-day session with talks covering four major topics in alternative splicing (listed below), on Jan. 6th. Thus we will have two consecutive days of presentations and discussion about alternative splicing, at the beginning of the conference, and participants will have the rest of the conference to continue their discussions informally. Our purpose is two-fold: to cover the latest results and questions in this exciting field in greater detail than was possible during the PSB main session, and to provide a workshop forum for productive discussion between researchers from the biological, computational and statistical fields. Indeed, one major hope for the extended session is that we will be able to create a critical mass of interest for organizing a conference on alternative splicing that would bring together all three of these groups on a regular basis. Talks during the extended workshop will be grouped in four major areas, covering material including (but not limited to): Technologies: Splice variant-related measurement technologies, such as existing microarray platforms; laboratory protocols/assays; validation techniques or novel instrumentation platforms. Biology: Biological mechanisms of splicing; biological functions such as the impact of splice variants on biological pathways; phenomena such as nonsense-mediated decay and disease associations Bioinformatics: Algorithms and analysis for splicing variant discovery; comparative genomics; computational methods for identifying cis-acting elements, trans-acting elements, alternative promoters etc. Databases & Community Resources: Data storage, access, mining, open source databases, standardization, consortium, database for validation and knowledge-based annotation and curation etc. We would like to invite you and your colleagues to submit abstracts to present a talk or poster in the extended session (go here for the registration and submission form:http://www.bioinformatics.ucla.edu/~info/PSB/). The deadline for the submissions is Nov 18th and we will notify you of acceptance by Nov 25th. Space is limited, so we encourage you to submit your abstract as soon as possible. Note: we will continue to accept registrations to attend the extended session (without giving a talk or poster) after Nov. 18th. Note: Registration for the extended workshop is free for PSB participants. For more information about PSB or to register, please go to http://psb.stanford.edu. The PSB organizers have been terrifically helpful and generous in enabling us to add this workshop to the PSB, and we think there will be much benefit from bringing biologists and bioinformaticists together to discuss the exciting developments in alternative splicing. |
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| Additional Information | |
| Event URL: | http://www.bioinformatics.ucla.edu/~info/PSB/ |
| ISCB Member Discount: | None |
| Contact Person: | Hui Wang ([javascript protected email address]) |
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