Keynote speakers comprising experts in the various disciplines of bioinformatics will be invited to present the latest innovations, technologies, ideas and research findings in their respective areas of expertise. Additional speakers/keynotes will be listed as invitations are accepted. Speakers/keynotes include:
Jim Mullins University of Washington, Seattle, USAHIV bioinformatics Terry Speed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, California, USAMicroarrays Garth Cooper Protemix and the University of AucklandProteomics, diabetes genomics, pharmacogenomics Dr. Robert Gentleman Harvard University School of Public Health, BostonStatistics for bioinformatics, proteomics, BioConductor Peter Johnstone AgResearch, New ZealandStatistics, QTL analysis Christos Ouzounis Cambridge, UKBruce Weir North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USAForensics, statistical bioinformatics Alexei Drummond Oxford, UKPopulation and evolutionary genetics Jotun Hein Oxford, UKComputational biology and bioinformatics Rod Page Glasgow, UKParasite-host evolution Thomas Leitner Los Alamos National Laboraties, New Mexico, USAVirology Marc Suchard UCLA, Los Angeles, USABayesian inference Bruce Rannala Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaPopulation and evolutionary genetics Jeff Thorne North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USAPhylogenetics and evolutionary biology Hao Bai-lin Institute of Theoretical Physics, ChinaTest datasets and evaluation of gene-fidners for the rice genome Limsoon Wong Institute for Infocomm Research, SingaporeSatoru Miyano Institute of Medical Science, University of TokyoHaruki Nakamura Institute for Protein Research, Osaka UniversityChristian Schoenbach RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama InstituteShoba Ranganathan Biotechnology Research Institute, Macquarie University