3rd Student Addendum Conference to Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction
SAC-CASP7 Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, USA, November 30th-December 1st 2006 The 3rd SAC-CASP meeting photograph

SAC-CASP7 Meeting Venue
The 3^rd Student Addendum Conference to CASP has been announced for November 30th and December 1st 2006. The Student Addendum Conference will take place after the main CASP conference and will also be held in Asilomar.

Meeting registration and abstract submission
* Register interest here
* All registrants will be updated via e-mail regarding the SAC-CASP7 meeting.
* Further information is listed below.
* Any additional questions can be addressed to the SAC-CASP7 organisers listed below.

Abstracts submitted for SAC-CASP7

The Origins of SAC-CASP:
Following suggestions raised at CASP4, an addendum meeting for students and post-docs was held immediately following CASP5 at the Asilomar Conference Center, December 5-6, 2002. The meeting featured a large number of short, informal talks and time for focused discussions. The meeting was very successful, participants particularly appreciated the chance to discuss details of methods and implementations more thoroughly than was possible at CASP. SAC-CASP was repeated at CASP6.

What SAC-CASP7 will be:
As in CASP, there will be presentations and discussion forums. However, unlike CASP, participation will be restricted to just students, post-docs and technicians.

Implementation:
SAC-CASP7 will last approximately a day and a half, starting the day that CASP itself finishes.

Participants are invited to submit an abstract containing an outline of a presentation (roughly 1000 words). Talks will be approximately 15-20 minutes long, and there will be ample time for questions. Up to 20 abstracts will be selected for presentation at the meeting, the rest will be taken into consideration for a poster session. Abstract selection will be at the organisers' discretion.

Important Information for Registrants:

• SAC-CASP7 attendance is contingent on CASP7 attendance.
• SAC-CASP participants must also be registered with CASP7.
• Pre-registered SAC-CASP7 attendees will be selected from the final list of CASP7 attendees.
• There is no registration fee for SAC-CASP, but participants will have to pay for an extra night and meals to cover the stay at the centre. This is approximately 100 US Dollars - full details on the CASP 7 Registration Page.
• Abstract submission is not a requisite for registration at SAC-CASP7 (you can attend SAC-CASP even if you don't submit an abstract).
• No group registration is allowed (every participant has to submit their own registration).
• More than one abstract per group can be submitted (although we would prefer to have many different groups represented).

SAC-CASP7 Meeting Information:

• To Follow

SAC-CASP7 Organisers are: Osvaldo Graņa (ESP) - Valencia Group in Madrid Marco Punta (ITA) - Rost Group in New York Michael Tress (UK) - Valencia Group Kazimierz Wrzeszczynski (USA) - Rost Group

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