Bioinformatics Conference

From: jon - at - dougal.chem.soton.ac.uk (Jonathan Essex)
Subject: Bioinformatics Conference
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 12:23:42 GMT
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                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
                The Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society
                                  presents
                      BIOINFORMATICS AND DRUG DISCOVERY
                               2-4 April, 1997
                  University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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 A two and a half day meeting covering the use of bioinformatics in all
 aspects of drug discovery from the application of genomics for rational
 target identification to structure-function prediction.
 Invited speakers:
 	Geoff Barton		University of Oxford, UK
 	Roger Brent		Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
 	Peter Buneman		University of Pennsylvania, USA
 	Tom Flores		European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
 	Tim Hubbard		MRC Centre for Protein Engineering, UK
 	Peter Karp		Artificial Intelligence Center, USA
 	David Parry-Smith	Pfizer Central Research, UK
 	Manuel Pietsch		GlaxoWellcome, Switzerland
 	Mike Sternberg		Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK
 	H. Werner Mewes		Max-Planck Institut fur Biochemie, Germany
 The meeting will begin after lunch on Wednesday, 2 April, 1997, and finish
 at approximately 5 pm on Friday, 4 April, 1997.
 Oral contributions and poster presentations are invited; abstracts should
 be submitted for consideration to Dr Andy Brass by 1 February, 1997. A
 limited number of student bursaries are available; students should indicate
 that they wish to be considered for a bursary when they submit their
 abstract.
 For further information about the meeting, see:
                 http://mbisg2.sbc.man.ac.uk/hssp/mgms.html
 To register, send a completed registration form obtainable from the above
 web page to Dr Jonathan Essex by 1 March, 1997.
          EARLY REGISTRATION IS RECOMMENDED AS PLACES ARE LIMITED
 The 1997 Annual General Meeting of the Molecular Graphics and Modelling
 Society will take place on Thursday, 3 April, 1997, at 5 pm at this
 conference.
        Dr JW Essex                         Dr A Brass
        Department of Chemistry             School of Biological Sciences
        University of Southampton           Rm 2.205 Stopford Building
        Highfield                           University of Manchester
        Southampton                         Oxford Road
        SO17 1BJ                            Manchester
        United Kingdom                      M13 9PT
        email: jwe1 - at - soton.ac.uk             United Kingdom
                                            email: abrass - at -
 fs2.scg.man.ac.uk
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