NVTB Activities newsletter.
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* Celebrating 30 years of Bioinformatics
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A symposium in the honor of Prof. dr. Paulien Hogeweg
Thirty years ago Paulien Hogeweg and Ben Hesper coined the
term Bioinformatics [1-3] "for the study of informatic processes in
biotic systems". To celebrate this and Paulien's 65th birthday
we organize a symposium on Friday 19 december 2008 in the
Boothzaal of the Utrecht University library.
Program:
8.30-9:00 Coffee
9.00-9:45 Martijn Huynen, NCMLS (Nijmegen): Genomic
correlates of protein function
9:45-10:30 Maarten Boerlijst, IBED (Amsterdam): Patterns and Evolution
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:45 Erik van Nimwegen, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (Basel):
Evolution of gene-content in bacteria: toward quantitative models
11:45-12:30 Nick Savill, Centre for Infectious Diseases (Edinburgh):
A Tryp through time
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 Berend Snel, Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics (Utrecht):
Flexiblity and conservation in the evolution of protein complexes
14:15-15:00 Stan Maree, Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics (Utrecht):
Modelling an Organism
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-16:15 Jaap Heringa, Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics (Amsterdam):
The high road in sequence analysis
16:15-17:00 Rob de Boer, Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics (Utrecht):
Theoretical Immunology and Immunoinformatics
17:00-18:00 Drinks
[1] Hogeweg, P. (1978). Simulating the growth of cellular forms.
Simulation, 31, 90-96.
[2] Hogeweg, P. & Hesper, B. (1978). Interactive Instruction on Population
Interactions, Comput. Biol. Med., 8, 319-327.
[3] Oxford English Dictionary, OnLine Edition: Entry 2002. Oxford University
Press.
Registration is free: please send an email to Stan Maree: A.F.M.Maree@uu.nl
For financial support we thank the Netherlands Society for Theoretical Biology
(NVTB) and the Academic Biomedical Center and the Universiteit Utrecht.
A pdf version of the program is attached to this email.