RECOMB 2004 Awards

Fred Howes Distinguished Service Award
2004 Award Recipient: Richard Karp, University of California Berkeley
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/People/Faculty/ Homepages/karp.html

The Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Computational Biology Lecture
This keynote address is awarded by RECOMB to a scientist who has made major, foundational contributions to the field of computational biology.

2004 Award Recipient: Russell Doolittle, University of California San Diego
http://biology.ucsd.edu/faculty/doolittle.html

The Distinguished Biology Lecture
This keynote address is awarded by RECOMB to a scientist who has made major contributions in the biological aspects of the field.
2004 Award Recipient: Andrew Fire, Carnegie Institution of Washington
http://www.bio.jhu.edu/directory/faculty/fire/default.html

The Distinguished New Technologies Lecture
This lecture is awarded by RECOMB to a scientist who has made major contributions to new technology for biological science.

2004 Award Recipient: Carlos Bustamante, University of California Berkeley
http://alice.berkeley.edu/

2004 Best Paper by a Young Scientist
The RECOMB 2004 Best Paper by a Young Scientist Award sponsored by Celera/Applied Biosystems was awarded to Eran Segal and Roded Sharan for their paper A Disciminative Model for Identifying Spatial Cis-Regulatory Modules.

2004 Best Poster
The RECOMB 2004 Best Poster Award sponsored by Microsoft was awarded to Matthew W. Dimmic, Melissa J. Todd, Carlos D. Bustamante, and Rasmus Nielsen for their poster Detecting Correlated Amino Acid Substitutions Using Bayesian Phylogenetic Techniques

2004 Best Poster Related to Protein Structure
The RECOMB 2004 Best Poster Award related to Protein Structure sponsored by the Protein Data Bank was awarded to Boris E. Shakhnovich, Eric Deeds, Charles Delisi, and Eugene Shakhnovich for their poster Protein Structure and Evolutionary History Determine Sequence Space Topology