Dear Colleagues:

The New York Academy of Sciences has initiated a forum for discussion between all in the New York area active in the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. The participants at the meeting that constituted the New York Computational Biology Society (NYCBS) agreed that bimonthly seminars would provide an excellent initial forum for this group to define itself. We have commitments from speakers until September (details below). All meetings will have three invited speakers (20+10 min talks), followed by a social gathering with light supper.

Date: Each odd-numbered month,
Wednesday = 15 of that month
Time: 15:30 - 17:00 talks
17:00 - 19:00 merger
Location: New York Academy of Sciences (http://www.nyas.org/ )
2 East 63^rd Street (btw. Madison and 5^th)

Schedule:

May 15	o Barry Honig (Columbia) o Mona Singh (Princeton) o Lincoln Stein (Cold Spring Harbor)
Jul 17	o Burkhard Rost (Columbia) o Terry Gaasterland (Rockefeller) o Tamar Schlick (NYU)
Sep 18	o Andrej Sali (Rockefeller) o Benoit Roux (Cornell) o Harmen Bussemaker (Columbia)

Please distribute the program to all in your immediate environment who may be interested. A list of the currently invited groups is attached. Please let Henry Moss (hmoss@nyas.org; 212-838-0230 ext. 410) know if you come and how many colleagues you will bring (confirmation needed for food!). We are looking forward to meeting you at this event!

Terry Gaasterland & Burkhard Rost

List of invited groups:

CONTACT

Henry Moss	NY Academy of Sciences	hmoss@nyas.org
Terry Gaasterland	Rockefeller	gaasterl@genomes.rockefeller.edu
Burkhard Rost	Columbia	rost@columbia.edu

GROUPS

Name	Institute	Email
DimitrisAnastassiou	Columbia	da8@columbia.edu
Chris Aston	Wyeth Aherst	astonc@war.wyeth.com
Helen Berman	Rutgers	berman@rcsb.rutgers.edu
Michael Braxenthaler	Hoffman La Roche	michael.braxenthaler@roche.com
Stuart Brown	NYU	browns02@popmail.med.nyu.edu
Harmen Bussemaker	Columbia	hjb2004@columbia.edu
Dan Davison	Bristol-Myers-Squibb	ddavison@bms.com
Tom Dougherty	Pfizer	thomas_j_dougherty@groton.pfizer.com
Richard Friesner	Columbia	rich@chem.columbia.edu
Terry Gaasterland	Rockefeller	gaasterl@genomes.rockefeller.edu
Mark Gerstein	Yale	mark.gerstein@yale.edu
Marilyn Gunner	CUNY	gunner@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Barry Honig	Columbia	bh6@columbia.edu
Casmir Kulikowski	Rutgers	kulikows@cs.rutgers.edu
Laura Landweber	Princeton	lfl@princeton.edu
Ron Levy	Rutgers	ronlevy@lutece.rutgers.edu
Debbie Marks	Sloan Kettering	debbie@cgr.harvard.edu
Bud Mishra	NYU	mishra@nyu.edu
Brian Moldover	Aventi	brian.moldover@aventis.com
Wilma Olson	Rutgers	olson@rutchem.rutgers.edu
Rob Peitsch	Pfizer	robert_m_peitzsch@groton.pfizer.com
Burkhard Rost	Columbia	rost@columbia.edu
Benoit Roux	Cornell	benoit.roux@med.cornell.edu
Andrey Rzhetsky	Columbia	ar345@columbia.edu
Andrej Sali	Rockefeller	sali@guitar.rockefeller.edu
Chris Sander	Sloan Kettering	sander@genome.wi.mit.edu
Tamar Schlick	NYU	schlick@nyu.edu
Dennis Shasha	NYU	shasha@cs.nyu.edu
Eric Siggia	Rockefeller	siggiae@mail.rockefeller.edu
Mona Singh	Princeton	mona@cs.princeton.edu
Katherine St. John	Lehman College/CUNY	stjohn@lehman.cuny.edu
Lincoln Stein	CSHL	lstein@cshl.org
Chao Tan	Princeton	tang@research.nj.nec.com
Chris Wiggins	Columbia	chw2@columbia.edu
An-Suei Yang	Columbia	ay1@columbia.edu