Feinstone Symposium
The first Biennial Feinstone Symposium was scheduled
for September 13, 2001 at the University Center, The University of Memphis.
The topic of this symposium was Computational Genomics (Analysis
of Microarray Data). The program
featured six distinguished speakers presenting on topics from computer science,
statistics, databases and pharmacology.
The list of speakers included Dr. Richard Karp, who is an A. M. Turing
Award Winner, the highest award that a Computer Scientist can receive.
Dr. Karp is also a member of the National
Academy of Sciences. In less than two
weeks of the program announcement, we had more than 200 confirmed registrations for
this program.
Represented institutions included:
The University of Memphis, University of Tennessee, University of Tennessee Space Institute, University of Louisville, University of Mississippi,
New York University, Wake Forest University, Texas AM, Vanderbilt, St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital, US FDA, National Center for Toxicological
Research, NIEHS, Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce, and Pfizer Global
R&D.
Unfortunately, due to the
tragic events of 9/11, the symposium was cancelled.
The symposium is now rescheduled for June 12, 2003 and will
follow an eight-day short course on microarray analysis.
This symposium coincides with the
establishment of a newly revised program in Bioinformatics at The University of Memphis under the
direction of Dr. George.
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