CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Registration opens at 5:00pm on Thursday, November 11, 1999 (with the reception at 7:00pm).
The program starts 8:00am Friday, November 12 and ends at noon Sunday, November 14.

NEW: The completed Detailed Conference Schedule (with times for all of the lectures) has been added.

AGENDA
The conference agenda includes keynote lectures, plenary lectures, and contributed lectures as well as poster sessions. Abstracts for the keynote lectures, plenary lectures, contributed lectures and poster presentations are now available.

The list of confirmed speakers is as follows:

KEYNOTE LECTURES

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

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

Walter Gilbert, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Introns and Modules in Ancient Conserved Genes

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

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

Steven Brenner, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Computational Approaches for Structural Genomics

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

Sean Eddy, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO Computational Screens for Noncoding RNA Genes in Archaeal Genomes

Patrick Forterre, University Paris-Sud, Paris, France Comparative Genomics of Three Pyrococcus Species: Evidences for a Single Replication Origin in these Hyperthermophilic Archaea and Gene Transfer from Bacteria to Archaea

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

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

Samuel Karlin, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Characterizing Highly Expressed Genes of Diverse Genomes

Jeffrey Lawrence, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Genetic Headroom

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

Burkhard Rost, Columbia University, New York, NY Evolution Teaches Structure Prediction

Andrej Sali, Rockefeller University, New York, NY Comparitive Protein Structure Modeling in Genomics

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

CONTRIBUTED LECTURES

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

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

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

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

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

All poster abstacts are now available online.

DETAILED CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

The complete Detailed Conference Schedule is now available online.