THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS BIOLOGY COMES TO STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Premier Conference for System-Level Understanding of Biology

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 30, 2009 – Registration is underway for the 10th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB). The conference will be held at Stanford University from August 30th – September 4th.

“This is the first time the International Conference on Systems Biology has come to the San Francisco Bay Area. Commemorating the ICSB’s tenth anniversary at the birthplace of both recombinant DNA and the personal computer industry seems appropriate,” said Stephen Quake, member of the local ICSB organizing committee and Professor of Bioengineering & Applied Physics at Stanford and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. “The bay area is home to some of the most significant academic and industrial efforts in systems biology — most notably biotechnology, informatics and computing,” he continued.

ICSB celebrates and investigates achieving a systems-level understanding of biology. By integrating experimental and computational approaches, Systems Biology explores the basic structures and properties of biological networks, how biological systems behave over time under various conditions, how biological systems maintain robustness and stability, and how modification or construction of biological systems achieve desired outcomes.

System Biology is driving breakthroughs in fields as varied as biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics and others, together with an evolution of our social and educational structures so different disciplines can effectively bridge traditional, cultural, linguistic, conceptual, and experimental boundaries.

For more information about the 10th International Conference on Systems Biology, please visit www.icsb-2009.org

To register for ICSB, please visit www.icsb-2009.org/registration.php

Entry to ICSB is free to accredited media, including full access to the partnering system, sessions, press conferences, and workshops.

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CONTACT: Name: Kam Morella
Phone numbers: 650 736 0048
Email: kamm {at} stanford(.)edu