Thank you for making the 2006 conference a success. Please download a PDF of the abstracts: CG06Abstracts.pdf (3.8MB)

The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech (VBI) and The Jackson Laboratory invite you to participate in bringing together today's leading scientists from around the world to discuss the latest advances in bioinformatics and computational biology. The goal of this meeting is to provide a forum comprised of invited speakers, speakers selected from submitted abstracts, and poster presenters to discuss their work and exchange ideas.

Themes for this year:

• High-throughput automated genome annotation
• Bioinformatics for biological networks
• Bioinformatics for infectious diseases

For an expanded topic list, please see: Abstracts

This year, the Annual Computational Genomics Conference is being held in Baltimore, Maryland. If you are associated with a university, government agency, nonprofit research lab, or from the biotechnology industry, this is the conference to attend!

Students

Student Application for Funding Assistance (PDF)

Also include the following:

• Letter of recommendation from student advisor
• Written statement of goals (500 words or less)

Keynote Speakers

Barry J. Marshall, Ph.D.
University of Western Australia
Nobel Laureate, 2005 in physiology or medicine for the discovery (together with J. Robin Warren) of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease

David Haussler, Ph.D., UC, Santa Cruz
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Director, Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering
Scientific Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research.

Speakers (Invited and Confirmed)

Joel Bader
Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD

Olga G. Troyanskaya
Princeton University - Princeton, New Jersey

Contact Information

E-mail: ComputationalGenomics@vbi.vt.edu

Sponsors