Overview
In early March 2005, students in Virginia Commonwealth University's Introduction to Bioinformatics course established collaborations with researchers from different institutions to address a question of molecular biology to which the tools of bioinformatics might well be applied. The Symposium provides a forum for the dissemination of the fruits of those collaborations.
 

Presenter	Collaborator	Presentation
Molly Sergio	James Godde Monmouth Coll.	Cyanobacteria's repeat sequences: Where did they come from?
Heather Satterlee	Jack Meeks U. Calif-Davis	The giant genome- does function explain size?
Brian Goodyear	Rakefet Schwarz Bar Ilan U.	Do cyanobacteria communicate with each other?
Aaron Holman	Brian Palenik Scripps Ocean Inst	Protection of secreted proteins in cyanobacteria
David Long	Wolfgang Hess U. Freiburg	DNA motifs potentially related to regulating genes in response to nitrogen in marine cyanobacteria
Sukalpa Dutta	Eric Webb Woods Hole	Iron-regulatory upstream sequences
Genevieve Sirles	You Chen Texas A&M U.	Small RNA and cyanobacteria
Amy Anderson	Peter Wolk Michigan St U.	RNA - a new role
Salma Asali	Terry Thiel U.Missouri-St.Louis	Fun with Nifs
Theresa Do	Jon Zehr U. Calif-Santa Cruz	Correlation in the position of nif-genes in the genomes of nitrogen-fixing bacteria