The conference will feature authors from selected papers submitted for consideration to the Proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Genomics and Bioinformatics. In addition, the virtual conference will feature the following invited speakers:

Chris Adami, California Institute of Technology. USA
Masanori Arita, University of Tokyo. Japan
Amit Agrawal, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology. USA
Orli G. Bahcall, Nature Genetics. USA
Joel Bader, John Hopkins University. USA
Kim Baldridge. Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Julie Bernauer, Yeast Structural Genomics - IBBMC UMR. France
Phil Bourne, University of California, San Diego. USA
Eric Davidson, California Institute of Technology. USA
Chris Dwan, The BioTeam. USA
Keith Dunker, University of Indiana. USA
Mike Eisen, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the University of California at Berkeley. USA
Michael Ellison, Institute for Biomolecular Design. University of Alberta. Canada
Richard J. Feldmann. Global Determinants, Inc. USA
Alberto Garcia, Universidad del Pais Vasco. Spain
Elodie Ghedin, The Institute of Genomic Research (TIGR). USA
Henry Khachaturian, NIBIB, National Institutes of Health. USA
Eugene Koonin. National Institutes of Health. USA
Pandjassarame Kangueane. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Vladimir A. Kuznetsov, Genome Institute of Singapore. Singapore
John Mattick, The University of Queensland, Brisbane. Australia
Tom Marr, University of Alaska. USA
Amit Majumdar, San Diego Supercomputer Center. USA
Anna Panchenko, National Institutes of Health. NCBI. USA
Pert Pancoska, Stony Brook University. USA
Pandjassarame Kangueane. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Daniele Passerone, University of Zürich. Switzerland
Jason Papin, University of Virginia. USA
Teresa Przytycka, NCBI, NLM, National Institutes of Health. USA
Dennis Quan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. USA
Susanna-Assunta Sansone, The European Bioinformatics Institute. United Kingdom
Shu-Lin Liu, University of Calgary. Canada
Nadrian C Seeman, New York University. USA
Deanne Taylor, Serono Reproductive Institute. USA
Susan Trapp, UCHSC Computational Bioscience Program. USA
Tamara Zemlo, The Science Advisory Board. USA
Mike Waters, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS-NIH). USA
Tan Tin Wee, Bioinformatics Centre. National University of Singapore. Singapore
Susan Wilson, Mathematical Sciences Institute. Australian National University, Australia
Michael Wise, University of Western Australia. Australia.
Shizhong Xu, University of California Riverside. USA

Important dates:

Participant Registration is Open

Paper submission Deadline: June 30, 2005 (closed)

Site Registration Opens : March 15, 2005