Programme Information

The programme, spanning 3 days, is divided into plenary lectures and parallel sessions. The plenary lectures, by some of the worlds most distinguished speakers, takes place at the beginning and end of each day. The rest of the programme is condensed into sessions, which cover particular research areas and comprise of a series of lectures by prominent scientists.

Technology Showcases

Technology Showcases are 2-hour presentation slots that run alongside the academic sessions. They are a great way of finding out about new product developments from leading life-science companies that can enhance your research. Already registered for a technology showcase:

Company	Time and Date	Session Outline
Ariadne Genomics	10.30, Wed 19th Mar 2008	Molecular networks: Extraction from the literature and network analysis for Human, Plants and other organisms. Overviews and live demonstration.
Roche Diagnostics	10.30, Tues 18th Mar 2008	Tech Showcase: The Genome Sequencer FLX System from Roche - Longer reads for more applications
Thermo Fisher Scientific	10:30, Tues 18th Mar 2008	FAIMS for Proteomics.
Agilent Technologies UK Ltd	14:00, Tues 18th Mar 2008	Agilent Technologies in Systems Biology; Showcase of Solutions for Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics and Bioinformatics.

Session overview:

Deep mining of genomes
From structure to biology
Disease proteomics
Emerging strategies for global proteomics
Metabolic markers of disease
Advanced concepts and techniques in array information
Facts from the flood: text mining for biomedicine
Clinical genomics of cancer
Systems biology in time: dynamic cellular processes
Systems biology - computational environments
Systems biology - comparing models with data
Chemical genomics: small molecules with large effects
Pharmacogenomics
Metagenomics approaches to biodiversity and systems ecology
Single molecule imaging and analysis