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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 The registration form and a second circular with further details of the conference are 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 Cheryl Arrowsmith (University of Toronto, Canada) Ted Baker (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Lucia Banci (University of Florence, Italy) Tom Blundell (University of Cambridge, UK) Stephen Burley (SGX Pharma, USA) Bruno Canard (University of Marseilles, France) Wah Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine, USA) Peter Colman (WEHI, Australia) Aled Edwards (University of Toronto, Canada) Samir Hanash (FHCRC, USA) Samar Hasnain (Northwest Structural Genomics Centre, 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) Youxing Jiang (University of Texas Southwestern, USA) 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) Jennifer Martin (University of Queensland, Australia) Hartmut Michel (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany) Kunio Miki (Kyoto University, Japan) 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) John Norvell (NIGMS, USA) Michael Parker (Melbourne University, Australia) Zihe Rao (Tsinghua University and Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China) Ray Stevens (The Scripps Research Institute, USA) Lance Stewart (deCODE biostructures, USA) David Stuart (SPINE and University of Oxford, UK) Isao Tanaka (Hokkaido University, Japan) Tom Terwilliger (Integrated Center for Structure and Function Innovation, USA) Janet Thornton (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) Liang Tong (Columbia University, USA) Soichi Wakatsuki (Photon Factory, Japan) Bi-Cheng Wang (University of Georgia, 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Companies wishing to sponsor or exhibit at ICSG 2006 should contact Ms. Tianyu Wang: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
