The German Conference on Bioinformatics is an annual, international conference devoted to all topics in bioinformatics. Its tradition reaches back to 1985, and recent conferences have attracted about 250 participants from all over the world.
The 2009 conference is organized by the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
The conference language will be English.
On Thursday October 1st a GCB satellite workshop "Data Analysis in Systems Biology" will take place, which is arranged by "Arbeitsausschuss Bioinformatik" and "Arbeitskreis Systembiologie" of Dechema. more ...
This talk is open to the general public and will take place on
Tuesday, September 29th, 17.30, Audimax
Immediately after the closing of GCB the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina will have its Annual assembly also in Halle (Saale) from October 2nd to 4th focussing on
More detailsComputermodelle in der Wissenschaft - zwischen Analyse, Vorhersage und Suggestion
Areas of interest at the German Conference on Bioinformatics 2009 are:
The focus is not limited to specific computational techniques or biological applications.
Scientists applying bioinformatics in life science - particulary in
plant research - are encouraged to present their work at the GCB.
Ewan Birney
(European Bioinformatics Institute)
Ensembl and ENCODE: Understanding our genome and its variation
David Fell
(Oxford Brookes University)
Building and Analyzing Genome-Scale Models of Metabolism
Andreas Graner
(Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben)
Challenges of utilizing plant genetic resources
Theo van Hintum
(Centre for Genetic Resources, Wageningen)
The role of bioinformatics in a global attempt to fight hunger
Svante Pääbo
(MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
A Neandertal Perspective on Human Origins
Ulrich Schurr
(Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Phenotyping of Plants: Quantification of Structure and Function - Concepts and Infrastructure
| First Call for Papers: | February 2009 | |
| Submission of Contributions: | May 17, 2009 - extended to May 24, 2009 | |
| NOTE: Abstracts must be submitted by May 19th, 12:00 noon (CEST), | ||
| updates are possible until May 24th. | ||
| Notification of acceptance: | June 29, 2009 | |
| Final version due: | July 20, 2009 | |
| Submission of Poster Abstracts: | August 9, 2009 | |
| Early registration deadline: | August 21, 2009 |