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SECOND ANNUAL UMASS BIOINFORMATICS CONFERENCE

University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, Massachusetts, USA Thursday - Friday, May 2-3, 2002

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS

The goal of this second conference will be to foster University-Industry relations in Bioinformatics. We encourage and solicit participation by academic and commercial research groups in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and computer science whose goals are to advance state-of-the-art systems in Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Genomics, and Proteomics.

Suggested topics include but of course are not limited to:

University-Industry Partnerships in Bioinformatics and Genomics * Proteomics * Advances in Microarray Technology and Data Analysis * Gene Mapping (Statistical Genomics) * Protein-protein interactions * in Silico Gene Detection * Pharmacogenomics * Using Bioinformatics Technologies in the Classroom/Curriculum Development * Evolutionary Genomics * Bioinformatics Tools: Their Use and Development * Data Visualization * Environmental Informatics * Data Mining * Neuroinformatics * Computational Structural Biology * Physiological Genomics * Phylogenetics and Molecular Evolution * Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genome Research

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 15, 2002 Notification deadline: March 29, 2002

Send abstracts for posters or presentations as attachments to James_LyonsWeiler@uml.edu, or by post to

James Lyons-Weiler University of Massachusetts Lowell One University Avenue Lowell, MA 01854 Re: Paper for 2002 Bioinformatics Conference

Abstracts submitted via email must be submitted as word (*.doc) or text (*.txt) documents. Files containing papers must be named after the first author (e.g., LyonsWeiler.doc or LyonsWeiler.txt). Submissions must include the e-mail address of the corresponding presenter.

Keynote Speakers will include:

Dr. James Cassatt, Ph.D., Director, Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics, National Institute of General Medical Sciences at NIH, and member of Bioinformatics Development Committee

Dr. Phil Reilly, M.D., J.D., CEO, Interleukin Genetics Incorporated

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION can be found at http://www.cs.uml.edu/bioinformatics/2002conference.

The UMASS Lowell Bioinformatics Conference Committee James Lyons-Weiler, Biological Sciences, Co-Chair James_LyonsWeiler@uml.edu Georges Grinstein, Computer Science, Co-Chair grinstein@cs.uml.edu