Registration, further information and sponsors Meeting site, transportation and maps Accommodation Cologne links Live transmission (should preferably be used with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher) Contact:   Diethard Tautz Institute for Genetics University of Cologne Weyertal 121 50931 Köln Phone: +49-221-470-2465 Fax: +49-221-470-5975 E-mail: tautz@uni-koeln.de Jonathan Howard Institute for Genetics University of Cologne Zülpicher Str. 47 50674 Köln Phone: +49-221-470-4864 Fax: +49-221-470-5015 E-mail: jonathan.howard@uni-koeln.de Dietmar Schomburg Institute for Biochemistry University of Cologne Zülpicher Str. 47 50674 Köln Phone: +49-221-470-6441 Fax: +49-221-470-5092 E-mail: d.schomburg@uni-koeln.de

Wednesday, Feb. 28

Genome projects

14.00-15.00   15.00-16.00   16.00-16.30 16.30-17.30

Stephan Beck (Sanger Centre, Cambridge) The human genome project Tanja Dickinson (TIGR, Rockville) Status of genome projects for nonpathogenic bacteria and archaea coffee break Christian Burks (Exelixis, San Francisco) Comparative Genomics for Target Prioritization reception at the Bio-Gen-Tec Forum (Rheinterrassen - Köln Messe) with beer and buffet

 

Thursday, March 1

Structural predictions

9.00-10.00   10.00-11.00   11.00-11.30 11.30-12.30

Volker Brendel (Iowa State University) Improved algorithms for gene structure prediction Thomas Werner (Genomatix, München) Enhancer and promotor prediction coffee break Jeffrey Skolnick (Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis) Computational Structural Genomics and its application to functional genomics lunch break

Mutational and evolutionary dynamics

14.00-15.00   15.00-16.00   16.00-16.30 16.30-17.30   17.30-18.30

Brian Charlesworth (University of Edinburgh) The effect of genomic location on molecular evolution and variation Adam Eyre-Walker (University of Sussex) The rates and fitness effects of new mutations coffee break Alexey Kondrashov (NCBI, Bethesda) Genomic parameters of spontaneous mutation and of selection against mutations - recent progress Chung-I Wu (University of Chicago)  Natural and sexual selection driving the evolution of human and Drosophila  genomes

 

Friday, March 2

Gene evolution

9.00-10.00   10.00-10.30 10.30-11.00 11.00-11.30 11.30-12.30       14.00-15.00   15.00-16.00

Claudia Kappen (University of Nebraska) The complete homeobox gene repertoire: implications for the evolution of diversity Dietmar Schomburg (University of Cologne) BRENDA (enzyme information system) and KORDO (protein/protein) docking, bioinformatic tools for the postgenomic age Diethard Tautz (University of Cologne) Fast evolving genes coffee break Andreas Wagner (University of New Mexico and The Santa Fé Institute) Robustness and redundancy in large genetic networks lunch break Jose Luis Riechmann (Mendel Biotechnology, Hayward) Arabidopsis Transcription Factors: Genome-Wide Comparative Analysis Among Eukaryotes Peer Bork (EMBL Heidelberg) Protein domains and families

last change: Feb. 20, 2001