Swiss Institute Of Bioinformatics 10th Anniversary Conference

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the SIB's 10th Anniversary celebration. Many events are to take place throughout Switzerland. Amongst them, we are particularly happy to welcome you to our Anniversary Conference (see programme below) which will take place on Wednesday, 24th September at the Kultur-Casino, Herrengasse 25, Bern:



(Please register for the Anniversary Conference)



12.30 - 13.00
Coffee



13.00 - 13.10
Welcome Address


Prof. Ron D. Appel, Director of the SIB


13.10 - 13.30
Introductory talk


The Systems Biology Era: integrating experimental sciences and bioinformatics to understand Biology

Prof. Manuel C. Peitsch, Chairman of the SIB Executive Board


13.30 - 13.50
Winner of the " SIB Young Bioinformatician Award 2008" talk


13.50 - 14.40
NCCR В« Frontier in Genetics В» talk


In vivo, in vitro, in silico: the future of biology, from genomes to synthetic cells

Prof. Antoine Danchin, Genetics of Bacterial Genomes Unit URA2171 CNRS, Director of the Genomes and Genetics Department, Institut Pasteur, Paris



14.40 - 15.10
Coffee break



15.10 - 16.00


Nobel Prize Winner talk


The impact of bioinformatics on our knowledge of life processes

Prof. Werner Arber, Professor emeritus for molecular microbiology, University of Basel, Nobel Laureate Physiology or Medicine 1978


16.00 - 16.50
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics talk

Sequencing the invisible - environmental genomics as a new challenge for bioinformatics

Prof. Christian von Mering, SIB and Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Zurich


16.50 - 17.00
Closing Words



17:00 - 18:00
Aperitif







Source: SIB Secretariat


Swiss Institute of Bioinoformatics