Evolution of Biomolecular Structure

A Symposium on current topics at the interface of molecular and computational biology and bioinformatics

Vienna, 25-27 May 2006

Participants List

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The Austrian Chemical Society and the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry of the University of Vienna present the Symposium on Evolution of Biomolecular Structure, to be held in Vienna from 25 to 27 May 2006.

This meeting is intended to provide an overview over recent progress in the field, and in particular to demonstrate the important contributions of bioinformatics and computational biology to the understanding of the principles of molecular evolution.

EBSV06  is dedicated to Professor Peter Schuster on the occasion of his 65th birthday

The Symposium will be held at the University of Vienna. It will feature eleven plenary lectures and a summary presented by Peter Schuster. In addition there will be contributed talks and a poster session.

Invited speakers:

• Manfred Eigen (MPI Göttingen, Germany)
• Walter Fontana (Harvard University, USA)
• Robert Giegerich (University Bielefeld, Germany)
• Alexander Hüttenhofer (Innsbruck Medical University - Biocenter, Austria)
• Josef Penninger (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria)
• Rudolf Rigler (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
• Klaus Schulten, (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Andreas Schwienhorst (University of Göttingen, Germany)
• Martin Vingron (MPI Berlin, Germany)
• Gunter Wagner, (Yale University, USA)
• Eric Westhof (IBMC Strasbourg, France)