17:00 - 20:00

Registration (Ballroom level)

19:00 - 21:00

Reception (25th Floor)

7:00 - 8:00

Continental Breakfast

7:30 - 9:30

Registration (Ballroom level)

8:00 - 8:15

Welcome & Introduction

Robert Nerem,
The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Tech

Elise Feingold,
National Human Genome Research Institute, Natioinal Institutes of Health

8:15 - 9:45

Session Chair, Soren Brunak

8:15 - 9:00

Burkhard Rost, Columbia University
Evolution Teaches Structure Prediction

8:15 - 9:00

Andrej Sali, The Rockefeller University
Comparative Protein Structure Modeling in Genomics

9:45 - 10:05

Break

10:05 - 12:05

Session Chair, Walter Gilbert

10:05 - 11:05

Russell F. Doolittle, University of California, San Diego
Sequence Analysis: Where We Were, Where We Are, and Where We Might Go

11:05 - 11:20

Break

11:20 - 12:05

Antoine Danchin, Institut Pasteur, Paris
The Delphic Boat: What Bacterial Genomes Tell Us?

12:05 - 13:40

Lunch (25th Floor)

13:40 - 15:10

Session Chair, Mark Borodovsky

13:40 - 14:25

Jeffrey Lawrence, University of Pittsburgh
Genetic Headroom

14:25 - 15:10

Samuel Karlin, Stanford University
Characterizing Highly Expressed Genes in Diverse Genomes

15:10 - 15:40

Break

15:40 - 17:10

Session Chair, Steven Henikoff

15:40 - 16:25

Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine
Exploiting the Past and the Future in Protein Secondary Structure Prediction

16:25 - 17:10

David Baker, University of Washington
Progress in ab initio Protein Structure Prediction

17:10 - 17:30

Break

17:30 - 20:00

Poster Session

The authors of posters with odd numbers are expected to be near their posters from 18:00 to 19:00.
The authors of posters with even numbers are expected to be near their posters from 19:00 to 20:00.

20:00

Dinner

7:00 - 8:00

Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 9:10

Session Chair, Antoine Danchin

8:00 - 8:35

Pierre Rouze, University of Ghent, Belgium
Evaluation of Gene Finding Programs Using Gene Contigs and Application to A. thaliana

8:35 - 9:10

Soren Brunak, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby
Structural Basis for Triplet Repeat Disorders: A Computational Analysis

9:10 - 9:30

Break

9:30 - 10:30

Session Chair, Walter M. Fitch

9:30 - 10:30

Walter GIlbert, Harvard University
Introns and Modules in Ancient Conserved Genes

10:30 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 12:15

Session Chair, Pierre Baldi

10:45 - 11:30

Christine A. Orengo, University College, London
CATH Protein Families: Insights into Structural Evolution and Function

11:30 - 12:15

Steven E. Brenner, Stanford University
Computational Approaches for Structural Genomics

12:15 - 13:40

Lunch (25th Floor)

13:40 - 15:10

Session Chair, Russell Doolittle

13:40 - 14:25

Steven Henikoff, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Block-Based Methods for Detecting Protein Homology

14:25 - 15:10

William Taylor, MRC National Institute of Medical Research, London
Defining Domains in Protein Structure

15:10 - 15:40

Break

15:40 - 17:10

Session Chair, Monica Riley

15:40 - 16:25

Sean Eddy, Washington University
Computaional Screens for Noncoding RNA Genes in Archaeal Genomes

16:25 - 17:10

David Haussler, University of California, Santa Cruz
Analysis of Micorarray Gene Expression Data Using Support Vector Machines

17:10 - 17:30

Break

17:30 - 20:00

Poster Session

The authors of posters with odd numbers are expected to be near their posters from 18:00 to 19:00.
The authors of posters with even numbers are expected to be near their posters from 19:00 to 20:00.

20:00

Dinner (25th Floor)

7:00 - 8:00

Continental Breakfast

8:15 - 9:25

Session Chair, Andrej Sali

8:15 - 8:50

Ron Ungar, Bar Ilan University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
A Simple Algorithm for Detecting Circular Permutations in Proteins

8:50 - 9:25

David Sankoff, Universite de Montreal, Montreal
Genome Rearrangement with Gene Families

9:25 - 9:45

Break

9:45 - 11:45

Session Chair, Eugene Koonin

9:45 - 10:45

Walter M. Fitch, University of California, Irvine
Predicting the Future Course of Human Influenza Virus Evolution

10:45 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:45

Patrick Forterre, Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay
Comparative Genomics of Three Pyrococcus Species: Evidences for a Single Replication Origin in these Hyperthermophilic Archaea and Gene Transfer From Bacteria To Archaea

11:45 - 12:00

Closing Remarks, Mark Borodovsky