High Throughput Biology Conference

Conference Details

Date: April 19 - 23, 2011
Location: Suzhou, China
Website: www.csh-asia.org

Organizers

• Edward Rubin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and DOE Joint Genome Institute
• Bing Ren, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and UCSD
• Tian Xu, Yale University and Fudan University

Conference Overview

We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on High Throughput Biology, which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China. The conference will begin at 7:30pm on the evening of Tuesday April 19, and will conclude after lunch on Saturday April 23, 2011.

This conference retains the essence of the prestigious Cold Spring Harbor NY meetings series. It will include eight oral sessions, one poster session, and one panel discussion. The purpose of the panel discussion is to facilitate collaborations among academic and non-academic institutions in the area of high throughput biology.

Major Topics

• High throughput approaches for manipulating the genome
• High throughput phenotyping
• Gene regulatory networks
• High throughput chemical biology
• Linking genetic variations to biology and disease
• New technologies for high throughput biology
• Computational Biology and modeling

Panel Topics

• Policy and funding opportunities for international collaboration in systems biology.
• Bridging the gap between conventional and high throughput biological approaches.
• Enhancing collaborations between academic and non-academic institutions.

Keynote Speakers

• Gerald Rubin, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, USA
• Sung Hee Baek, Seoul National University, KOREA
• Allan Bradley, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
• Sheng Ding, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
• William Hahn, Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, USA
• Helen Hobbs, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
• Nancy Jenkins, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
• Manolis Kellis, MIT, USA
• X. Shirley Liu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, USA
• Yanxi Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Huck-Hui Ng, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
• Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Stephen Quake, University of Stanford and HHMI, USA
• Kanury V S Rao, ICGEB Laboratories, INDIAN
• Michael Snyder, Stanford University, USA
• Masaru Tomita, Keio University, Japan
• Jun Wang, Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, China
• Jonathan Weissman, UCSF/HHMI, USA
• Barbara Wold, California Institute of Technology, USA
• Sunney Xie, Harvard University, USA
• Songyang Zhou, Zhongshan University, China

Contact Information

Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conferences
Mike Ji
Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center
No.299 Qiyue Road, SIP/ Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Phone: +86 512 6272 9029
Fax: +86 512 6272 9028
E-mail: mikeji@csh-asia.org