Symposium Steering Committee - Digital Biology: The Emerging Paradigm

November 6-7, 2003 - Natcher Conference Center - National Institutes of Health

Digital Biology: The Emerging Paradigm - Symposium organized by: NIH Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative Consortium (BISTIC)

This symposium has been organized by a special staff Steering Committee of the NIH Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative Consortium (BISTIC).

Co-Chairs

Richard Morris, Ph.D.
Technology Officer
Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Karen Skinner, Ph.D.
Deputy Director for Science and Technology Development
Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research
National Institute on Drug Abuse

Members

James Cassatt, Ph.D.
Director
Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics
National Institute of General Medical Sciences Milton Corn, M.D.
Associate Director
National Library of Medicine

Travis Earles
Technology Development Program Specialist
Office of Technology and Industrial Relations
Office of the Director
National Cancer Institute Keyvan Farahani, Ph.D.
Program Director
Biomedical Imaging Program
Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
National Cancer Institute

Gregory Farber, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Division of Biomedical Technology
National Center for Research Resources Daniel Gallahan, Ph.D.
Chief
Structural Biology and Molecular Applications Branch
Division of Cancer Biology
National Cancer Institute

Peter Good, Ph.D.
Program Director
Genome Informatics Program
National Human Genome Research Institute Eric Jakobsson, Ph.D.
Chair, BISTIC
Director
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Kevin Lauderdale
Program Specialist
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
National Institute of General Medical Sciences Yuan Liu, Ph.D.
Program Director
Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics, Channels, Synapses, and Circuits
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Peter Lyster, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Discovery Science and Technology
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Grace C.Y. Peng, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Discovery Science and Technology
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Mehrdad Tondravi, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Michael Twery, Ph.D.
Lead
Sleep and Neurobiology Scientific Research Group
Airway Biology and Disease Program
Division of Lung Diseases
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

John Whitmarsh, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics
National Institute of General Medical Sciences Jane Ye, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Bioengineering and Genomic Applications Group
Clinical and Molecular Medecine Program
Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Planning Workshop
The symposium agenda is based on insights and suggestions shared by senior scientists at a planning workshop convened by the BISTIC on January 15-16, 2003. (For the planning workshop report, see http://www.bisti.nih.gov/2003meeting/report.cfm.)

Biomedical Information Science and Technology Consortium
The BISTIC consists of representatives from 27 NIH Centers and Institutes and other Federal agencies concerned with bioinformatics and computational applications. The mission of the BISTI Consortium is to encourage optimal use of computer science and technology to address problems in biology and medicine by fostering new basic understandings, collaborations, and transdisciplinary initiatives between the computational and biomedical sciences. For more information on biomedical computing at NIH and on the BISTIC, visit http://www.bisti.nih.gov/.

Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI)
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services