Norwegian Bioinformatics Forum

The Norwegian Bioinformatics Forum (NBF) is a large biannual meeting of Norway's bioinformatics community. This year, the meeting will be held in Oslo, at the new research building at the Radium hospital between the 18th and 19th of November 2010. The meeting is organized by the FUGE bioinformatics platform and the Bioinformatics Core Facility at Oslo University Hospital and the University of Oslo. The registation deadline for the meeting is 15th of October.

Download the NBF2010 flyer here. 

Confirmed keynote speakers

	Anton Nekrutenko earned his doctoral degree in biology at Texas Tech University in 1999, and was a postdoctoral research associate and instructor in the department of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago from 1999 to 2003. Today he is an associate professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State, heading a group focusing on evolutionary dynamics of overlapping coding regions, and working on the very popular Galaxy project.
	Bengt Persson is a professor of bioinformatics at Linköping University and Karolinska Institutet. He is the director of the national supercomputer centre in Linköping. Persson utilizes genome-wide sequence comparisons, machine-learning techniques, and molecular modelling applied to biomedical problems throughout his research. He is heading the swedish part of the Elixir initiative, which will be the focus of his talk at the NBF.
	One additional keynote speaker to be confirmed

Confirmed speakers

• Kjetil Klepper
  

• Morten Beck Rye

• Takaya Saito

• Geir-Kjetil Sandve

• Sigve Nakken

• Anders Lanzén
  

• Alexander Goncearenco

• Matus Kalas

• Tim Kahlke

• Ian Donaldson
  

The meeting will consist of talks from invited speakers both within the Norwegian community, and from abroad. In addition to talks, we will arrange poster sessions, demo sessions and an exhibition with commercial companies. There will also be plenty of opportunities to meet other researchers in fields you have interest in. We expect 50-100 scientists within bioinformatics, genomics and molecular biology from all parts of Norway to attend.

Date: 18th and 19th of November 2010
Location: The new research building at the Radium hospital
Registration deadline: 15th of October 2010 
Registration fee: NOK 500 

Preliminary program

Thursday, November 18th 2010

10.00: Welcome
10.15: Keynote Lecture
11.15: Lecture
11.45: Lecture
12.15: Lunch
13.15: Lecture
13:45: Lecture
14:15: Lecture
14.45: Coffee break
15.15: Commercial exhibition, software demo, posters
18.00: Dinner

Friday, November 19th 2010

10.00: Keynote lecture
11.00: Lecture
11.30: Lecture
12.00: Lunch
13.00: Keynote lecture
14.00: Lecture
14.30: Coffee break
15.00: Lecture
15.30: Lecture
16.00: Closing

Registration for this event has not yet started, but will be available through this site. 

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