Wix Auditorium
	08:30	Registration
	09:00	Welcome remarks Ilan Chet, President of the Weizmann Institute of Science Hermona Soreq, Chair, The National Committee for Scientific Infrastructure
	09:15	Keynote
		John Moult, CARB, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, USA SNPs, Protein Structure and Disease
	10:00	Nir Friedman, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Inferring Regulation from Gene Expression with Probabilistic Graphical Models
	10:25	Uri Alon, Molecular Cell Biology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science Design Principles of Transcriptional Networks
	10:50	Coffee - Tent
	11:20	Ed Trifonov, Genome Diversity Center, Haifa University Sobering Truth about Protein Structure
	11:45	Dan Graur, Zoology Department, Tel Aviv University Invading Numts and Resurrected Alus: Evolutionary Dynamics of Junk DNA
	12:10	Arie Admon, Biology Department, Technion A New Look at Cancer Proteomics and Immunology by Large-Scale Analysis of MHC Peptides
	12:35	Ruth Nussinov, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University Using the Building Block Folding Model to Reduce the Computational Complexity of Protein Folding
	13:00	Light Lunch - Tent Poster Presentation - Wix Auditorium, upper & lower lobby Commercial Exhibition - Tent
	15:00	Founding Meeting-Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ISBCB) - Wix Auditorium
	15:30	Coffee - Tent

16:00     Parallel Workshops
Genomics & Medical Bioinformatics Jacques S. Beckmann, Chair Wix Auditorium	Proteomics & Bioinformatics Meir Edelman, Chair Schmidt Hall	Intellectual Property & Bioinformatics Jonathan Gressel, Chair Zacks Hall	Biology Applications for Computational & Mathematical Methods Eytan Domany, Chair Wix Small Hall

17:05     Panel Discussion/Poster Awards

Will Biology become Bioinformatics? Doron Lancet, Chair Wix Auditorium

Poster Awards

Scientific Committee: Shmuel Pietrokovski, Hanah Margalit, Daniel Fischer, Haim Wolfson

Local Committee: Shmuel Pietrokovski, Chair Ron Pinter, Co-chair Joel Sussman, Marvin Edelman, Eitan Rubin

Academic Supporters:
The Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger Conference Foundation at the Weizmann Institute of Science
The Kimmelman Center of Biomolecular Structure and Assembly
The Crown Human Genome Center
The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science
Faculties of the Life Sciences
INN - The Israeli National Node

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