[Socbin] Invitation to the International Workshop: New Mechanisms in the Evolution of Phenotypic Diversity

[David H. Ardell]

Invitation to the Workshop "New Mechanisms in the Evolution of  
Phenotypic Diversity".

The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Carl  
Linnaeus, one of Uppsala's great scientists and naturalists, who  
founded the modern field of systematics that illuminated the  
beginning of the modern perspective on natural diversity. To honor  
him, the Linnaeus Centre of Bioinformatics (Uppsala University and  
the Swedish Agricultural University) is arranging a two-day workshop  
on the role of novel regulatory mechanisms in the evolution of  
phenotypic diversity and cellular differentiation. The workshop will  
take place at the BMC (Lecture Hall B41) at Uppsala on October 18-19  
2007.

The program for the workshop and more information may be found at:  
http://www.lcb.uu.se/linnaeus_workshop/

The main topic of this workshop is the role of novel molecular  
mechanisms, including ncRNA, imprinting, and mobile genetic elements  
in the evolution of phenotypic variation and cellular  
differentiation. One session will be dedicated to Systems Biology.  
The workshop's goal is to bring together experimental, evolutionary  
and computational perspectives, and opportunities for open discussion  
will be encouraged.

An international program of invited speakers will review the state-of- 
the-art in the fields and discuss the expanding view of the  
intersections among these emergingly important mechanisms, the roles  
they play in phenotypic diversity and cellular differentiation, and  
opportunities for bioinformatics, computational biology and modelling  
in their investigation.

Accepted speakers are:
Olivier Voinnet (IBMP, Strasbourgh, France)
Michel Georges (University of Liège, Belgium)
Rene Ketting (Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology)
Anders Krogh (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Rebecca Oakey (King's College, London, U.K.)
Déborah Bourc’his (Paris University, France)
Jef Boeke (John Hopkins University, USA)
Wolfgang Nellen (Kassel University, Germany)
Ewan Birney (EMBL Outstation, Hinxton, U.K.)
Anne Ferguson Smith (University of Cambridge, U.K.)
Edwin Wang (McGill University Center for Bioinformatics, Montreal,  
Canada)

Registration to attend the workshop is required, with a deadline of  
September 30, 2007, http://www.lcb.uu.se/linnaeus_workshop/index.php? 
page=re. Included in the registration are admission to the talks and  
discussions, coffee breaks, and eventual hand-outs. There is no  
registration fee for the workshop.

A PDF attachment flyer for this workshop is attached. We are thankful  
if you can post and distribute this email and flyer to publicize the  
workshop.

Sincerely yours,

for the organizing and program committees,
Ann-Charlotte Berglund Sonnhammer
Gunnar Andersson
David Ardell

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