Announcement: 4th International Conference on StructuralGenomics (ICSG 2006)
Mar 17, 2006

Second announcement and call for abstracts:

ISGO 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STRUCTURAL GENOMICS 2006
(ICSG 2006 BEIJING/TOKYO)

Main conference:
October 22-26, 2006 - Beijing, China

Satellite workshops:
October 19-21, 2006 - Tokyo, Japan

A second circular with further details of the conference (including
registration) is available for download from the conference website:
http://www.sino-meetings.com/icsg2006/


Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the International Structural Genomics Organization (ISGO), it
is our very great honor to invite you to participate in the ISGO
International Conference on Structural Genomics 2006 (ICSG 2006) to be held
in Asia. The main conference will be held in Beijing, China, from October
22-26, 2006. Workshops for cell-free expression and automation of X-ray
structure determination will be held in Tokyo, Japan from October 19 to 21,
2006 (details to be announced separately).

Structural Genomics is now completing a transition from pilot phase to
production phase. Automation technologies have matured, and the accelerating
pace of structure determination now presents new challenges in the
structural genomics field. The two major themes of ICSG 2006 will be:
large-scale Structural Genomics to create new innovations and technologies;
and application of new technologies for conventional structural biologists.
Other major topics of this conference will include protein production
technologies, drug discovery, membrane proteins, and new directions for
Structural Genomics. This year, we are also introducing a session on
functional proteomics to encourage greater understanding and co-operation
between the structural and functional proteomics fields.

We look forward to welcoming you to Beijing in 2006 and hope that your visit
will be an enjoyable one, as well as a rewarding scientific and social
experience.


CHAIRS

Zihe Rao (China)
Shigeyuki Yokoyama (Japan)


HONORARY CHAIR

Dong-Cai Liang (China)


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Ted Baker (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Tom Blundell (University of Cambridge, UK)
Stephen Burley (Structural Genomix, USA)
Wah Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Peter Colman (WEHI, Australia)
Aled Edwards (University of Toronto, Canada)
Samir Hanash (FHCRC, USA)
Samar Hasnain (Daresbury, UK)
Wayne Hendrickson (New York Consortium on Membrane Protein Structure, USA)
Neil Isaacs (University of Glasgow, UK
So Iwata (Imperial College London, UK)
Joel Janin (Paris-Sud Yeast Structural Genomics, France)
Andrzej Joachimiak (Midwest Center for Structural Genomics, USA)
Robert Kaptein (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Sung-Hou Kim (Berkeley Center for Structural Genomics, USA)
Peter Kuhn (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
Ming Luo (University of Alabama, USA)
John Markley (Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, USA)
Hartmut Michel (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany)
Gaetano Montelione (Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium, USA)
Dino Moras (Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology,
France)
John Moult (Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, USA)
Michael Parker (Melbourne University, Australia)
Zihe Rao (Tsinghua University and Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China)
Ray Stevens (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
David Stuart (SPINE and University of Oxford, UK)
Tom Terwilliger (Integrated Center for Structure and Function Innovation,
USA)
Janet Thornton (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)
Liang Tong (Columbia University, USA)
Ian Wilson (Joint Center for Structural Genomics, USA)
Peter Wright (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
Kurt Wuthrich (The Scripps Research Institute, USA and ETH Zurich,
Switzerland)
Shigeyuki Yokoyama (Tokyo University and RIKEN, Japan)

FURTHER INFORMATION

ICSG2006 Secretariat,
Institute of Biophysics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District,
Beijing 100101,
China
Tel: +86 10 6488 9894/6488 9872
Fax: +86 10 64889892
E-mail: wsy@moon.ibp.ac.cn ; jzhang@moon.ibp.ac.cn

Companies wishing to sponsor or exhibit at ICSG 2006 should contact Ms.
Tianyu Wang: tianyu@moon.ibp.ac.cn


Thomas C. Terwilliger
Mail Stop M888
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545
Tel: 505-667-0072  email: terwilliger@LANL.gov
Fax: 505-665-3024  SOLVE web site: http://solve.lanl.gov
TB Structural Genomics Consortium web site: http://www.doe-mbi.ucla.edu/TB