davison@UHNIX2.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) (06/01/90)
Forwarded message: > From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Jun 1 08:34 CDT 1990 > Message-Id: <9006011330.AA20094@genbank.bio.net> > Date: Fri, 1 Jun 90 09:27 EDT > From: <JF600%albnyvms.bitnet@genbank.bio.net> > Subject: Computational Biology -- Fall Conference > To: bionews@genbank.bio.net > X-Original-To: bionews@genbank.bio.net > > > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + > > CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT > > "CONVERGING APPROACHES IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY" > > SEPTEMBER, 13-16, 1990 > > RENSSELAERVILLE, NY > > > > An interdisciplinary meeting on "Converging Approaches in > Computational Biology" will be held September 13-16, 1990 in Rensselaerville > near Albany, New York, under the auspices of the Center for Molecular > Genetics of the State University of New York at Albany. The concept of the > meeting reflects an increased awareness within the scientific community that > computational tools being developed in diverse fields have common elements or > close analogies. The aim of the conference is to identify these elements and > to facilitate an exchange among computational biologists that is not normally > possible within the constraints of topical, single-discipline meetings. > > The meeting will bring together about 100 scientists working in a > wide range of disciplines (such as x-ray crystallography, electron > microscopy, sequence analysis, neurophysiological signal processing) with the > purpose of encouraging interdisciplinary exchange on underlying concepts of > mathematical modeling and techniques of numerical analyses in biology. To > this end, the meeting is organized into sessions according to particular > mathematical or computational themes: Latent Feature Identification, > Information Theoretical Approaches, Methods for Reconstruction and > Refinement, Simulations and Modelling, Discovery of Patterns. > > > CONFERENCE SITE > > The conference, one of the Albany Conference series held annually > since 1984, will take place at the Rennselaerville Conference Center, located > 30 miles southwest of Albany, NY in the Helderberg Mountains. The Institute > offers on-campus facilities including a large auditorium with all necessary > audio-visual equipment, and smaller conference halls for informal workshops > and poster sessions. The Weathervane Restaurant, located on-campus and > formerly the carriage house of the Huyck estate, provides meals and > refreshments, while overnight lodging is available in the modern and classic > estate houses. Rooms are assigned in advance to registrants, and > transportation to and from Rensselaerville is provided from the airport, as > well as train and bus stations. The rural, secluded setting of the > conference, the limited number of participants and the scheduling of sessions > in the morning and the evening -- leaving the afternoons free -- are intended > to facilitate informal discussions among conference participants. > > > CONFERENCE FORMAT > > The conference will consist of three morning and two evening sessions > over a period of three nights and days (Thursday evening through Sunday > morning). Each session will be devoted to a particular computational theme > and will be comprised of four or five 30-minute talks by experts from > different biological disciplines (with strong representation from structural > biology), interspersed by question-and-answer periods of 15-20 minutes. > There will be an open-ended discussion period at the end of each session, > with the speakers and chair serving as a panel. > > > CONFERENCE PROGRAM > > The following is a summary (as of May 25) of the sessions planned > for the meeting on Computational Biology. All of the speakers and most of > the session chairs are indicated. > > > SESSION 1. METHODS FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND REFINEMENT > > Chair: Dr. Mario Amzel, Johns Hopkins University > > Speakers: > > Dr. Sarah Nelson Fox Chase Cancer Center > Peaks, patterns and protein structures from high resolution NMR spectra > > Dr. A.B. Goncharov Academy of Sciences, USSR > Determination of angles among randomly oriented particles of unknown structure > > Dr. Lynn Ten Eyck General Atomics > Image reconstruction and model refinement in protein crystallography > > Dr. John Kuriyan Rockefeller University > Application of molecular dynamics to crystallographic refinement of > proteins > > > SESSION 2. INFORMATION THEORETICAL APPROACHES > > Chair: Dr. Andrew McLachlan, Univ. of Cambridge > > Speakers: > > Dr. Joel Trussel North Carolina State Univ. > Set theoretic approaches to estimation and identification > > Dr. Michael Unser National Institutes of Health > Optimum resolution conversion and scale-space representation of images > > Dr. Bi-Cheng Wang Univ. of Pittsburgh > Resolution of phase ambiguity in macromolecular crystallography by a > noise filtering process > > Dr. Temple Smith Dana Farber Cancer Inst. > Identification of functional pattern correlates > > > SESSION 3. LATENT STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION > > Chair: Dr. Fred Cohen, Univ. of California, San Francisco > > Speakers: > > Dr. Pat Argos European Molecular Biology Laboratory > Comparing protein sequences, sensitive methods and realistic > evaluations > > Dr. Peter Franaszczuk University of Maryland > Direction of postsynaptic potentials in intracellular recordings > from neurons in tissue culture > > Dr. Joachim Frank Wadsworth Center, NYS Health Dept. > Classifying noisy projections of an unknown structure > > Dr. Charles Lawrence Wadsworth Center, NYS Health Dept. > Analysis of misaligned data with application to sequence analysis > and neurophysiology > > Dr. Gary Stormo Univ. of Colorado > Identifying functional domains in biological sequences > > > SESSION 4. SIMULATIONS AND MODELLING > > Speakers: > > Dr. Ken Dill Univ. California, San Francisco > Statistical mechanics of protein folding > > Dr. Jeff Skolnick Scripps Research Inst. > Models of globular protein folding > > Dr. Richard Feldman National Institutes of Health > Could we ever design a biology > > Dr. Kathleen Palmer Cornell University > Modelling "loops" of proteins: homology and energy-based methods > and applications > > > SESSION 5. DISCOVERY OF PATTERNS > > Speakers: > > Dr. Alan Lapedes Los Alamos National Laboratory > Neural nets, optimization and statistics: a biological case study > > Dr. Michael Liebmann Amoco Technology Co. > Application of neural networks to structure-function analysis in > proteins > > Dr. Teresa Webster Arris Pharmaceutical > Identification of structure/function patterns using amino acid > sequence information > > Dr. Andrew McLachlan Univ. of Cambridge > Periodic structural patterns in proteins > > > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + > > > REGISTRATION INFORMATION > > CONFERENCE FEE: $450 includes registration, accomodations (double occupancy), > meals and transportation between the conference center and Albany airport. A > limited number of single occupancy accomodations are available for an extra > $100. Payment of the full fee will be required by AUGUST 23, 1990. Please > note that neither the Albany Conferences nor the Rensselaerville Conference > Center accepts credit cards. > > APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 30, 1990. > > For further information and a copy of the application form for the 1990 > Albany Conference on "Converging Techniques in Computational Biology", please > call the conference coordinator, Carole Keith, 518-442-4327, FAX > 518-442-4767, or write to The 1990 Albany Conference, P.O. Box 8836, Albany, > NY 12208-0836. > > > > -- dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences/univ. of Houston/4800 Calhoun/Houston,TX 77054-5500/davison@uh.edu/DAVISON@UHOU "...and newspapers have an obligation to protect young, innocent minds from the sinister influence of actual thought" Bill Watterson ("Calvin & Hobbes") on "Pogo". Disclaimer: As always, I speak only for myself, and, usually, only to myself.