Date and place
February, 8, 9, 10, and 11, 2006
BIFI (Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems). University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
Deadlines
Early registration: October 15, 2005
Last day to complete registration: November 15, 2005
Poster abstract submission: January 5, 2006
News
The registration process has been activated on April 15, 2005.
The early registration deadline has been extended to October 15.
Titles of Invited Talks are now available. See Invited Speakers
Conferences Proceedings will be published by the AIP.
Program:
Representative topics of the scientific program include, but are not limited to:
Mechanical properties of DNA and RNA : unzipping and stretching of single molecules.
Structure and folding of RNA
Non canonical forms of DNA.
Docking of virtual ligand libraries containing millions of molecules.
Conformational flexibility and docking.
Energy landscapes and ligand binding.
Protein-protein interactions: the interactome.
Signal networks and disease.
Macromolecule folding with emphasis in structure prediction.
Biomolecular interactions and their analysis with theoretical/computational approaches of relevance for ligand and drug design.
Studies into the collective behavior of interacting biomolecules and the modeling of biological networks.
Self - assembly of DNA structures and proteins.
Cell Signaling.
Chromosome structure.
Ab initio and DFT molecular computations.
Molecular Networks.
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks.
Solvation Energy.
Energy Functions.
There will be a poster session open to all attendees, sixteen 25-minutes oral presentations to be selected among the contributions submitted as a poster if they fit better for a talk, and eleven invited speakers.
Conference Proceedings:
The Conference Proceedings will be published by the AIP (American Institute of Physics). All participants are invited to submit a contribution up to six pages in the format provided by the AIP (either in latex or Word). All contributions will be refereed and the corresponding author of the accepted contributions will receive a volume of the Proceedings free of charge. Furthermore, when the print version is published, every article will appear online on the AIP website. AIP works to ensure that abstracts of papers may be located in major abstracting and indexing databases and search engines. All abstracts are also indexed by Google.
The Conference Site:
The Conference will take place at Maria Moliner Library Building of the University of Zaragoza San Francisco Campus, Zaragoza. A map with instructions on how to reach the conference place will be available soon.
Lodging will be available at the ****Hotel Goya, 5 Cinco de Marzo Street. Phone (+34) 976 229 331, hotelgoya@palafoxhoteles.com. Visit http://www.palafoxhoteles.com for more information about the hotel.
Registration information
The conference fee will be 370 EUR for participants registering prior to October 15, 2005, and 450 EUR for late registration (registration deadline: November 15, 2005), space permitting (max. 200 attendees). This fee includes hotel accomodation (breakfast included) during the dates of the conference, coffee breaks, and a banquet dinner. The Conference ends, February 11, 2006 after lunch. In case anyone would like to stay longer in Zaragoza, please contact Hotel Goya directly. The hotel has special prices for conference attendees.
The payment is by bank transfer, in Euros. This must be done in such a way that it is free of charge for the receiver. The details may depend on your country and/or bank. The transfer details are the following.
| Name of the Bank: | IBERCAJA |
| SWIFT code: | CAZRES2Z |
| Holder of the account: | Universidad de Zaragoza |
| Account number (IBAN): | ES 40 2085-0111-73-0330323899 (for international bank transfers this item represents the account, containing the code of the country, the bank and the account number). |
| Message: | BIFI2006 |
| Address of the Bank: | IBERCAJA, Agencia nº 10 Paseo Fernando el Católico, 35 50006 Zaragoza (SPAIN) |
Conference information may be received by sending an e-mail to Yamir Moreno (see below). Please be sure to include your contact information. Updated conference information, as well as the conference registration form, are available at the Conference's web page.
Travel and accommodation:
Zaragoza is linked to Madrid and Barcelona by AVE (high velocity train). The distance to both cities is roughly the same, around 300 Km. The BIFI Institute is a research center of the University of Zaragoza, in Zaragoza, Spain. The Conference place is on the San Francisco Campus of the University of Zaragoza. The University is surrounded by a plenty of restaurants and snack bars where one can have lunch for 9-11 euros. Additionally, there is a new canteen at the University with a whole lunch that costs around 5 euros.
The conference committee expects to provide financial support for the attendance of graduate students and young post-docs. However, please note that a very limited number of grants covering the conference fee is available. Therefore, every effort should be made to cover with own funds travel expenses. For more information about financial support, send an e-mail to Andrés Cruz at cruz@sol.unizar.es.
Local Contact:
Dr. Yamir Moreno
Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems,
BIFI, University of Zaragoza
Edificio Cervantes, Corona de Aragón 42
50009 Zaragoza (Spain)
E-mail: yamir@unizar.es
Phone: (+34)976 562212, ext 223
Fax: (+34)976 562215
Dr. Andrés Cruz (for those applying for financial support)
Dpt. Theoretical Physics
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza
Pedro Cerbuna 12
50009 Zaragoza (Spain)
E-mail: cruz@sol.unizar.es
Phone: (+34)976761259
Fax: (+34)976761264