Guests of the conference will be lodged at the Houston Marriott Medical Center Hotel, located at 6580 Fannin Street, (Driveway Entrance on 1730 Dryden Road) Houston, Texas 77030. The Houston Marriott Medical Center Hotel is ideally situated within walking distance to Rice University campus, the Texas Medical Center, the Houston Zoo, Hermann Park, and the Houston METRORail Memorial Hermann Hospital/Houston Zoo Red Line stop which provides convenient access to the Museum District and Downtown. Rice University also offers free shuttle services to campus, departing from the BioSciences Research Collaborative building one block away from the hotel. Rice shuttles can be tracked on your computer at http://bus.rice.edu or on your iPhone with the free app at http://iphone.rice.edu.