General Information

Conference Site

University of Göttingen
Central lecture hall (Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude)
Platz der Göttinger Sieben

37073 Göttingen/Germany

Accommodation

Reservation of accommodation will be made by

Tourist-Information Göttingen
Att. Mrs. Dorothea Meisser
Altes Rathaus, (Old Town Hall)
Markt 9
D-37073 Göttingen

Phone:	+49 (0)551/49980-20
Fax:	+49 (0)551/49980-10
Email:

Download registration form for accommodation

Further Information and Online booking

General Information about Göttingen

www.goettingen-tourismus.de

Public transport in Göttingen

You can buy a reduced ticket for public transport which gives you free transfer on all municipal buses throughout town, reduced admission to Municipal Museum, Göttingen's theatres, Badeparadies Eiswiese (in- and outdoor swinning pools), exhibitions held at the Old Town Hall, etc.

Price for 3 days: 9.00 Euro
Available at the Tourist-Information in the Old Town Hall.

Travel Information

By plane:
You can either fly to Frankfurt/Main, Hanover or Berlin

Travel time by train:
From Frankfurt/Main Airport to Göttingen: approx. 2 hours
From Hanover Airport to Göttingen: approx. 1 hour 10 minutes
From Berlin Airport to Göttingen: approx. 3 hours

By train:
Göttingen is serviced by the ICE high-speed-trains:
On weekdays, these trains run on an hourly schedule. More information, especially regarding the timetable, is available at http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en?

The conference will take place in the "Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude" (ZHG/Central lecture hall), about 10 minutes walk from the railway station (see map).
Taxis are available at both exits of the railway station.

By car:
Göttingen is serviced by the A7 motorway (Autobahn), the principal north-south route in Germany. Leave the A7 at exit 73 (Ausfahrt Göttingen/Dransfeld -> turn right into "Kasseler Landstraße") or exit 72 (Ausfahrt Göttingen Nord) (see map).

Parking:
Close to the central lecture hall there is a public parking. There is also a multi-storey car park within walking distance. Further information can be found at http://www.mobile-goettingen.de.

Local buses:
The central lecture hall can be reached by a number of buses. The bus stops located near the central lecture hall are:

Auditorium	Bus number 2,3,10,12,14,15
Blauer Turm	Bus number 10 and 12
Campus	Bus number 5

The bus routes can also be found (in German only) at:
http://www.goevb.de/pdf/netzplan.pdf

For the timetable of the various buses, please visit:
http://www.goevb.de
under "Fahrplanauskunft" ->link "Fahrpläne"

Exhibition

The conference will be accompainied by an exhibition to demonstrate recent developments of miniaturisation for chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological applications. Industrial companies, research institutes and universities will have the possibility of presenting their latest results, products and manufacturing equipment.

For further information please contact the conference office.

Registered Exhibitors until August 2005:

NibleGen Systems, Inc., Madison, WI/USA
GATC Biotech AG, Konstanz/D
QIAGEN GmbH, Hilden/D
Transgenomic Inc., Omaha, NE/USA

Key Dates

December, 2004 Distribution of the Second Announcement and Call for Papers

Until March 11, 2005 Submission of abstracts for contributions

April 20, 2005 Authors information about acceptance of their papers

July 2005 Distribution of the Final Programme

September 23 - 26, 2005 2nd European Conference on Prokaryotic Genomes

December, 2004	Distribution of the Second Announcement and Call for Papers
Until March 11, 2005	Submission of abstracts for contributions
April 20, 2005	Authors information about acceptance of their papers
July 2005	Distribution of the Final Programme
September 23 - 26, 2005	2nd European Conference on Prokaryotic Genomes