This symposium will bring together past and current collaborators and scientists inspired by Willie Taylor’s research. For those wondering about the title, this symposium also marks 30 years since the landmark conference of the same name was held at EMBL in Heidelberg, which in many respects marked the start of the modern bioinformatics era. Willie was one of the organisers of that meeting, and a number of the speakers from that conference will also be speaking in this symposium.

£30 ticket charge is to cover lunch and refreshments.

Speakers include:

Sir Tom Blundell

Emeritus Professor and Director of Research, Cambridge University, UK

Franca Fraternali

Professor in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Head of the Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, UK

Richard Goldstein

Professor of Pathogen Evolution, UCL, UK

Jaap Heringa

Professor of Bioinformatics Director, Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands

Des Higgins

Professor of Bioinformatics, Conway Institute, Dublin, Ireland

Inge Jonassen

Professor of Computational Biology, University of Bergen, Norway

David T. Jones

Professor of Bioinformatics, UCL, UK

Christine Orengo

Professor of Structural Bioinformatics, UCL, UK

Motonori Ota

Professor of Complex Systems Science, Nagoya University, Japan

Laurence Pearl

Professor of Structural Biology (Genome Damage and Stability), University of Sussex, UK

David D. Pollock

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA

Friedrich Rippmann

Director, Global Computational Chemistry & Biology, Merck KGaA, Germany

Michael Sternberg

Director of the Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (CISBIO) and Professor of Structural Bioinformatics. Imperial College, UK

Dame Janet Thornton

Director Emeritus of EMBL-EBI and Senior Scientist, EBI, UK