The Eukaryotic Promoter Database EPD turns 30 years old this year. To celebrate this event, The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) are pleased to announce the EPD 30th Anniversary Symposium which will take place at the Starling Hotel on the EPFL campus in Lausanne, on 29 to 30 September 2016.
The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers from different generations and different backgrounds who have made seminal contributions to our current understanding of promoter function and structure.
We expect some historical talks, recapitulating how our views of promoters have evolved since Jacob and Monod, some visionary talks anticipating future directions of the field, and some very timely talks presenting the latest results on trendy topics. Hopefully there will also be some time for discussion and debate on fundamental and controversial issues such as what is a promoter.
Abstract for short talk submission deadline: 15 August, postponed to 24 August
Poster submission deadline: 28 August
Registration deadline: 15 September