As part of CITR's effort to exploit ITR opportunities, the Center will offer sponsorships for conferences and other formal meetings of the ITR community. While CITR's primary goal is to foster creative research, the need to seek out and establish quality collaborations and partnerships is vital to the overall achievement of the CITR mission. Therefore, CITR will periodically provide funds for and aid in organizing meeting events.
The annual Bioinformatics Summit for 2008 is to be held March 28th - 30th at Lake Berkeley State Park in Cadiz, KY. The goal of the conference is to build up collaborative projects and activities in Bioinformatics between researchers on the campuses of the University of Tennessee, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt, and other state and regional organizations engaged in this broad area of research. The conference was jointly sponsored by UT's Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CGB), the Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (KBRIN), UT's Center for Information Technology Research (CITR), UT's Molecular Resource Center and the UT/ORNL Science Alliance.
