ISMB 2003 Satellite meeting on June 28, 2003

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Plenary Speaker: Dr. Sylvia Spengler, NSF, USA

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The organizers of WEB would like to invite you to participate in the third workshop on Education in Bioinformatics, on June 28, 2003 at Brisbane, Australia. This workshop is scheduled immediately before ISMB 2003 (http://www.iscb.org/ismb2003/index.shtml), June 29 - July 3, 2003.

WEB03 follows on from the highly successful WEB meetings held so far: the first Education in Bioinformatics meeting, WEB01, held on July 26, 2001 at Copenhagen, Denmark and its sequel, WEB02, held on Aug. 8, 2002 at Edmonton, Canada .

In response to the worldwide shortage of trained bioinformaticians, several universities and institutes have spearheaded Bioinformatics teaching and research.  Besides organized university-based education, several certification programs are also currently under way.

This workshop aims to bring together Bioinformatics educators for to meet, discuss and exchange ideas and suggestions. WEB03 will address fundamental issues that will determine the nature, extent, content and delivery tools available for Bioinformatics programs embarked upon, as well as provide valuable lessons for focus and improvement of nascent Bioinformatics programs.

Besides oral and poster presentation sessions, the workshop will collect data from participants to suggest the guidelined for a curriculum in Bioinformatics at the under-graduate and post-graduate levels.

Participant profile will include:

• Educators and students currently involved in programs or modules in Bioinformatics

• Deans, Vice-Deans and Heads of Faculty/Department and Senior Faculty, interested in starting a Bioinformatics teaching and research program

• Industry participants, who are currently hiring or seeking to hire bioinformaticians.

• Bioinformatics certificate course organizers.

The meeting will be held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre.

WEB03 registration will be along with ISMB 2003 registration.

ISMB 2003 conference rates have been extended to cover the extra day required to attend WEB03.  For more information on hotels offering special rates, please see ISMB 2003 Housing. Hotel reservation will have to be made along with workshop registration.

Organizing Committee

• Assoc. Prof. Shoba Ranganathan, Chair

Depts of Biochemistry & Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
 
• Professor Siv G. E. Andersson, Co-Chair

Linnaeus Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Molecular Evolution, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Dr. Betty Cheng, Co-Chair

Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, USA

• Assoc. Prof. Tim Littlejohn

Biolateral Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Australia

• Dr. Bruno Gaeta

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia