Statistics in Functional Genomics - Workshop, Ascona 2004

Scope:

Functional genomics is concerned with assigning biological function to DNA sequences. Innovative approaches, such as the cDNA and oligonucleotide microarray technologies, have been developed to yield information about gene expression levels for entire genomes. Analysis of large, complex data sets resulting from biological experiments yielding such data has generated many research problems for modern statistics.
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together participants from statistics, computational science, bioinformatics and biology, and to encourage interaction among them.

Date:

June 27th -- July 2nd, 2004

Location:

Centro Stefano Franscini
Ascona, Switzerland

Keynote Speakers:

Philip Brown (University of Kent), Sandrine Dudoit (UC Berkeley), Robert Gentleman (Harvard U), Victor Jongeneel, (Uni Lausanne), Ruth Luthi-Carter (EPF Lausanne), Othmar Pfannes (GeneData), Sylvia Richardson (Imp. College London), Terry Speed (UC Berkeley), Martin Vingron (Max Planck Inst. Berlin), Anja Wille (ETH Zurich)

Organizing Commitee:

Peter Buhlmann, Anthony Davison, Darlene Goldstein

This workshop is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Centro Stefano Franscini, Novartis Basel, Roche Basel, Serono Geneva, Syngenta Basel, GeneData Basel, SAS (Schweiz), SPSS (Schweiz) Zurich, EPF Lausanne.