ESF Research Conferences

ESF-UB Conference in Biomedicine

SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

Chaired by

CHAIR:

LuisSerranoE-Mail
CRG Centre de Regulacio GenomicaDepartment of Design of Biological Systems BarcelonaSpain

CO-CHAIR:

Roelvan DrielE-Mail
University of AmsterdamSwammerdam Institute for Life SciencesNuclear Organization and Chromatin Structure LaboratoryAmsterdamNetherlands

VICE-CHAIR:

RudolfAebersoldE-Mail
Swiss Federal Institute of TechnologyETH-ZurichInstitute for Molecular Systems BiologyZürichSwitzerland

Dates

12-17 April 2008

Location

Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
The conference will take place in Sant Feliu de Guixols, on the Spanish Costa Brava, 120 km north of Barcelona and 30 km south of Girona. Group transportation will be arranged from/to Barcelona airport, on arrival and departure days.

Final Programme & List of Accepted Participants

The ESF-UB Conference on Systems Biology attempts to give a comprehensive overview of the recent developments in the different aspects that are included in systems biology. Thus we will cover network analysis, network modeling, -omics approaches in Systems Biology, relationship between Systems Biology and disease and briefly touch the future avenue of Synthetic Biology. The conference will be organized around senior speakers presenting the advances in their fields and junior talks selected from abstracts.  Special emphasis will be given to poster sessions and open discussions to favor communication between senior and junior scientists.

Final Programme PDF (257 KB) Last Updated 10-April-2008

List of Invited Speakers & Accepted Participants

Abstracts, Posters & Short Oral Contributions

All abstracts are accepted for poster presentation. Posters can be fixed with self-adhesive tape, blue-tack onto double-sided poster panels. Recommended poster size is 130 cm high x 130 cm wide. Use letters and drawings that can be read from approximately 100 cm distance.

Group Transportation & Practical Information Guide

Detailed information on all practical aspects of the conference (access to site, registration & fee payments, accommodation, travel reimbursements...) is available from the Practical Information Guide. Please read it fully and carefully...

Practical Information Guide PDF (195 KB)

GROUP TRANSPORTATION
Two buses will be arranged on arrival day from Barcelona airport to Sant Feliu. The journey takes approximately 90 minutes, depending on traffic.

Bus departure times - Saturday 12 April: 16.30 – 18.00
Airport departure point: the buses will wait in the special bus parking area located just before the A terminal. Each bus has been requested to be at the meeting point 20-30 minutes before scheduled departure. The coaches will have a sign in the window indicating “ESF Research Conferences” for easy recognition.

Bus departure times to Barcelona airport - Thursday 17 April: after lunch (indicative times: 12.30 and 13.30)

ACCOMMODATION
Please note that SINGLE accommodation can only be guaranteed to invited speakers. All other participants will have to share a TWIN room. In case single rooms would become available at the time of the conference, rooms will be attributed on a “first come, first served” basis. Only the TWIN conference fee should be paid to the ESF when registering. The supplement for single should be paid to the venue directly. Should you wish to be put on waiting list for single accommodation, please contact Ms. Chiara Orefice.

Registration Form

All participants - including speakers & session chairs - are kindly expected to confirm their attendance (and, when applicable, to pay the conference fee) by filling in a Registration Form. 
Closing date for registration & fee payment: 13 March 2008

Conference Fees

Fees

What the fees cover

EUR 730

conference, meals and twin OR double room

EUR 520

non-resident: conference, meals (no room)

ESF Contact

ChiaraOreficeE-Mail
European Science FoundationESF Conferences UnitBrusselsBelgium

Phone: +32 (0)2 533 2023
Fax: +32 (0)2 538 8486
Please quote 08-234 in any correspondence.

Partnership

This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with the University of Barcelona.

With Support from