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7th [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference

Molecular evolution

The seventh Basel Computational Biology Conference 2009 "Molecular Evolution" celebrates Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species".

Invited speakers include:

• Manolis Dermitzakis, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK;
• Allan Drummond, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA;
• Adam Eyre-Walker, University of Sussex, UK;
• Laurent Excoffier, SIB & University of Bern, Switzerland;
• Walter J. Gehring, Biozentrum University of Basel, Switzerland;
• Eugene V. Koonin, NCBI, Bethesda, MD, USA;
• Christine Orengo, University College London, UK;
• Karen E. Nelson, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, CA, USA;
• Daniel E. Platt, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, NY, USA;
• Christian von Mering, SIB & University of Zurich, Switzerland;
• Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

The annual Basel Computational Biology Conference brings together like minded individuals and companies interested in the field of computational biology. The main goal of the conference is to provide a platform for informal communication and fruitful discussion between speakers and participants.

The Basel Computational Biology Conference [BC]2 is a conference of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics organized by the Biozentrum, University of Basel and SIB.

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