RECOMB Invited Keynote Speakers

One of the highlights of each RECOMB conference is a collection of nine keynotes awarded to researchers of highest international esteem who are asked to inform the community about landmark advances in computational and experimental research and inject new directions into the field of computational molecular biology.

2004 Keynotes

2004 Award Recipient
The Distinguished New Technologies Lecture

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

Title: Recent Advances on the Manipulation of Single Biomolecules
Abstract (pdf)


2004 Award Recipient
The Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Computational Biology Lecture

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

Title: Fifty Years of Sequence Analysis: What Have We Learned?
Abstract (pdf)


2004 Award Recipient
The Distinguished Biology Lecture

Andrew Fire, Carnegie Institution of Washington
http://www.bio.jhu.edu/directory/faculty/fire/default.html

Title: RNAi, Genome Ultrastructure, and Other Unexpected Tales from the Analysis of Genetic Silencing
Abstract (pdf)


2004 Award Recipient
Fred Howes Distinguished Service Award

Richard Karp, University of California Berkeley
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/People/Faculty/Homepages/karp.html

Title: Algorithms for Inferring Cis-Regulatory Structures and Protein Interaction Networks
Abstract (pdf)


William McGinnis, University of California San Diego
http://www.biology.ucsd.edu/labs/mcginnis/

Title: Evolutionary Change in Developmental Genetic Networks
Abstract (pdf)


Deborah Nickerson, University of Washington
http://droog.gs.washington.edu/

Title: SNPing in the Human Genome
Abstract (pdf)


Martin Nowak, Harvard University
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/nowak/nowak.htm

Title: Somatic Evolution of Cancer


Christine Orengo, University College London
http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/~orengo/

Title: A Structural Perspective on Genome Evolution
Abstract (pdf)


Elizabeth Winzeler, Scripps Research Institute
http://www.scripps.edu/cb/winzeler/index.html

Title: Systems Biology and Malaria
Abstract (pdf)