About the Conference

The International E. Coli Alliance (IECA) was founded in 2002 with the mission to seed a highly interdisciplinary international collaboration to develop an in silico cell using the bacterium Escherichia coli as a model organism. The IECA is coordinating both the development and sharing of the experimental and computational resources that will make this aim accomplished. The first IECA conference was organized by Prof. Masaru Tomita, and held in Tsuruoka, Japan in 2003. The second IECA conference organized by Prof. Michael Ellison was held in Banff, Canada in 2004. Both conferences successfully provided an exciting cross-disciplinary forum by bringing together experimentalists and theorists, scientists and engineers across the broad scientific spectrum. The third IECA Conference on Systems Biology, IECA 2006, will cover, but not limited to, the following scientific and industrial topics.

1. New fundamentals of E. coli
2. Omics of E. coli
3. Understanding metabolic, genetic and regulatory circuits
4. Metabolic engineering of E. coli by systems approach
5. Bioinformatics and resources on E. coli
6. In silico E. coli
7. Industrial applications of E. coli
8. Systems biology of E. coli
9. Systems biotechnology of industrial microorganisms