The meeting will have 12 plenary lectures by outstanding scientists and 18 symposia and workshops covering the various areas of biology and medicine where functional genomics is currently applied. We will further have focus on new and emerging technologies and would like the meeting to be window to industry and biotechnology. Each parallel session will have three invited speakers and two selected short talks. The meeting will have more than 70 invited speakers and more then 100 talks on total in addition to poster presentations and satellite symposia.