JOACHIM@TETHYS.PH.ALBANY.EDU (Joachim Frank) (07/10/90)
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF YOUNG INVESTIGATOR SUPPORT
FOR ATTENDING THE ALBANY CONFERENCE ON
"CONVERGING APPROACHES IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY"
SEPTEMBER, 13-16, 1990
RENSSELAERVILLE, NY
To encourage participation of new investigators in this meeting, a
limited number of registration waivers and travel grants will be awarded
to graduate students, as well as to other young investigators (postdoctoral
students, junior faculty) in the area of Computational Biology.
Anyone interested in receiving such an award should submit a
registration form (available on request) along with a brief letter explaining
his/her research interests. Graduate students should also include a letter of
recommendation from a faculty advisor. If applications exceed available
funds, selection will be by lottery, with priority given to those presenting
posters at the meeting. Applications from women and minorities are
encouraged.
For registration forms, please contact 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.
Further information about this meeting may also be obtained by calling
one of the conference organizers:
Steven Bryant 518-473-3382
Jacquelyn Fetrow 518-442-4389
Joachim Frank 518-474-7002
Charles Lawrence 518-473-3382
Carmen Mannella 518-474-2462
David Shub 518-442-4324
APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 30, 1990.
A description of the meeting follows this announcement.
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT (revised)
"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 July 1) of the sessions planned for
the meeting on Computational Biology.
SESSION 1. METHODS FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND REFINEMENT
Chair: Dr. Mario Amzel, Johns Hopkins University
Speakers:
Dr. Sarah J. 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, Medical Research Council, 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 F. Smith Dana Farber Cancer Inst.
Identification of functional pattern correlates
SESSION 3. LATENT STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION
Chair: Dr. Fred E. Cohen, Univ. of California, San Francisco
Speakers:
Dr. Patrick Argos European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Comparing protein sequences, sensitive methods and realistic
evaluations
Dr. Piotr J. 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 E. Lawrence Wadsworth Center, NYS Health Dept.
Analysis of misaligned data with application to sequence analysis
and neurophysiology
Dr. Gary D. Stormo Univ. of Colorado
Identifying functional domains in biological sequences
SESSION 4. SIMULATIONS AND MODELLING
Speakers:
Dr. Ken A. Dill Univ. California, San Francisco
Statistical mechanics of protein folding
Dr. Jeffrey Skolnick Scripps Research Inst.
Models of globular protein folding
Dr. Richard J. Feldmann National Institutes of Health
Could we ever design a biology?
Dr. Kathleen A. Palmer Cornell University
Modelling "loops" of proteins: homology and energy-based methods
and applications
SESSION 5. DISCOVERY OF PATTERNS
Speakers:
Dr. Alan S. Lapedes Los Alamos National Laboratory
Neural nets, optimization and statistics: a biological case study
Dr. Michael N. Liebman Amoco Technology Co.
Application of neural networks to structure-function analysis in
proteins
Dr. Andrew D. McLachlan Medical Research Council, Cambridge
Periodic structural patterns in proteins
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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.