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URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/bioforum/attachments/20080618/922d14f2/attachment.html From stephan.steglich from fokus.fraunhofer.de Thu Jun 19 09:22:16 2008 From: stephan.steglich from fokus.fraunhofer.de (Steglich, Stephan) Date: Thu Jun 19 11:37:44 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] CFP for BIONETICS 2008 Message-ID: <79C0EA6E7AD7CE4A85EDAF482B5456B201896FB4@EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de> FYI I apologize for mutiple copies. ***************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS BIONETICS 2008 3rd International Conference on Bio inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems http://www.bionetics.org/ Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center Awaji Island, Hyogo, Japan, Nov 25-28, 2008 *** Technically co-sponsored by IEEE COMSOC, IEEE CIS, and IEEE SMC (planned) *** In co-operation with ACM SIGCAS (planned) Jointly sponsored by CREATE-NET, ICST *** Submission deadline: July 1, 2008 *** ***************************************************************** Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily networked devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at multiple scales, from the global Internet scale down to micro- and nano-devices. Many of these devices are highly mobile and autonomous, and must adapt to the surrounding environment in a totally unsupervised way. The fundamental research challenge is the design of robust decentralized computing systems, capable of operating under changing environments and noisy input, and yet exhibit the desired behavior and response time, under constraints such as energy consumption, size, and processing power. These systems should be able to adapt and learn how to react to unforeseen scenarios as well as to display properties comparable to social entities. Biological systems are able to handle many of these challenges with an elegance and efficiency still far beyond current human artifacts. Based on this observation, bio-inspired approaches have been proposed in the past years as a strategy to handle the complexity of such systems. The goal is to obtain methods on how to engineer technical solutions which have similar high stability and efficiency as biological entities often have. The BIONETICS conference aims at bringing together researchers and scientists from several disciplines in computer science and engineering where bio-inspired methods are investigated. We are soliciting high-quality original papers in the following areas including but not limited to the these topics: a) Bio-inspired mathematical models, methods and tools: - Mathematical models of biological processes - Cellular signaling pathways - Multiscale dynamics of emergent properties - Nano-scale and molecular communication b) Bio-inspired algorithms and mechanisms - Qualitative assessment of evolutionary algorithms - Artificial immune and self-healing systems - Self-organizing network paradigms - Adaptive and evolving protection mechanisms c) Bio-inspired technical systems: - Engineering methods and tools for bio-inspired systems - Bio-inspired service evolution and optimization - Pandemic service deployment strategies - Self-learning defense strategies d) Bio-inspired information and communication systems (ICT): - Network algorithms and protocols - Autonomic communication systems - Evolution of network architectures and protocols - Adaptive and self-healing network architectures - In-network processing and autonomic networking - Adaptive sensor and actor networks - Topology control and network organization - Localization and synchronization - Mobility models - Multi-agent systems and robotics - Novel applications and services - Network and information security - Experimental studies Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages or short papers of up to 4 pages in ACM conference proceedings format. The proceedings will be an ICST publication and the papers will be listed on the ACM DL and indexed by EI. Please follow the instructions on the website (http://www.bionetics.org) for formatting and submitting your paper or visit the link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=bionetics2008. ---------------------------------------------------------- Important dates Submission deadline: July 1, 2008 Acceptance notification: September 1, 2008 Camera Ready Paper: October 1, 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- BIONETICS 2008 Committees General Co-Chairs: Masayuki Murata, Osaka University Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University TPC Co-Chairs: Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS Steering Committee Co-Chairs: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net Tatsuya Suda, University of Irvine, California Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen Panel Co-Chairs: Lidia Yamamoto, University of Basel Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR Publicity Co-Chairs: Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University Xiuzhen Cheng, Georgia Washington University Jian-Qin Liu, NICT Publication Co-Chairs: Suyong Eum, Osaka University Giusi Alfano, CREATE-NET Financial Chair: Karen Decker, ICST Conference Coordination Chair: Dorothy Bany, ICST Local Arrangement & Web Chair: Shin'ichi Arakawa, Osaka University Bioinformatics Track Chair: Pietro Lio, University of Cambridge Industry Track Co-Chairs: Atsuhiro Tanaka, NEC Workshop Chair: Yuki Moritani, NTT Docomo Best regards Stephan Steglich -- Dr. Stephan Steglich Fraunhofer FOKUS / TU Berlin Assistant Professor (C1) at TU Berlin, Faculty Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Director Competence Center for Open Communication Systems (OKS) at FOKUS www.fokus.fraunhofer.de / www.oks.tu-berlin.de Mail: stephan.steglich@fokus.fraunhofer.de stephan.steglich@tu-berlin.de Phone: +49 30 34637373 Fax: +49 30 34638373 Mobile: +49 700 STEGLICH / +49 175 5271146 _________________________________________________ From editor from gene-quantification.info Thu Jun 26 07:45:22 2008 From: editor from gene-quantification.info (Editor www.Gene-Quantification.info) Date: Thu Jun 26 10:37:56 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] qPCR NEWS June 2008 - Update in RNA integrity Message-ID: <01f00463-4ae9-41eb-9357-f23dd8c1ac03@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> qPCR NEWS June 2008 - Update in RNA integrity Dear researcher, dear Gene Quantification page reader, Our newsletter informs about the latest news in quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR and qRT-PCR), which are compiled and summarised on the Gene Quantification homepage. The focus of this newsletter issue is: - RNA integrity page updated! - CAmpER - Real-time PCR analysis software - Event calendar 2008 - qPCR meetings 2008 - qPCR application workshops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If this newsletter is not displayed correctly by your email client, please use following link: http://qPCRnews.gene-quantification.info/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RNA Quality control The assessment of RNA integrity is a critical ?rst step in obtaining meaningful gene expression data. Working with low- quality RNA may strongly compromise the experimental results of downstream applications which are often labour-intensive, time- consuming, and highly expensive. Using intact and integer RNA is a key element for the successful application of modern molecular biological methods, like qRT-PCR or micro-array analysis. To verify RNA quality nowadays commercially available automated capillary-electrophoresis systems are available which are on the way to become the standard in RNA quality assessment. Pro?les generated yield information on RNA concentration, allow a visual inspection of RNA integrity, and generate approximated ratios between the mass of ribosomal sub-units. More info here: http://RNA-integrity.gene-quantification.info/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated publications - RNA Quality control Impact of RNA quality on reference gene expression stability. Claudina Angela P?rez-Novo, Cindy Claeys, Frank Speleman, Paul Van Cauwenberge, Claus Bachert, and Jo Vandesompele BioTechniques 2005 Volume 39, Number 1: pp 52-56 Improved RNA quality and TaqMan? Pre-amplification method (PreAmp) to enhance expression analysis from formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) materials. Li J, Smyth P, Cahill S, Denning K, Flavin R, Aherne S, Pirotta M, Guenther SM, O'Leary JJ, Sheils O. BMC Biotechnol. 2008 8:10. Optimization of the PAXgene blood RNA extraction system for gene expression analysis of clinical samples. Chai V, Vassilakos A, Lee Y, Wright JA, Young AH. J Clin Lab Anal. 2005;19(5): 182-188. Successful downstream application of the Paxgene Blood RNA system from small blood samples in paediatric patients for quantitative PCR analysis. Carrol ED, Salway F, Pepper SD, Saunders E, Mankhambo LA, Ollier WE, Hart CA, Day P. BMC Immunol. 2007 8:20. Impact of RNA degradation on gene expression profiles: assessment of different methods to reliably determine RNA quality. Copois V, Bibeau F, Bascoul-Mollevi C, Salvetat N, Chalbos P, Bareil C, Candeil L, Fraslon C, Conseiller E, Granci V, Mazi?re P, Kramar A, Ychou M, Pau B, Martineau P, Molina F, Del Rio M. J Biotechnol. 2007 127(4): 549-559. REVIEW: RNA integrity and the effect on the real-time qRT-PCR performance. Simone Fleige & Michael W. Pfaffl Molecular Aspects of Medicine 27 (2006) 126?139 Successful RNA extraction from various human postmortem tissues. Heinrich M, Matt K, Lutz-Bonengel S, Schmidt U. Int J Legal Med. 2007 121(2): 136-142. RNA quality in frozen breast cancer samples and the influence on gene expression analysis ? a comparison of three evaluation methods using microcapillary electrophoresis traces. Strand C, Enell J, Hedenfalk I, Fern? M. BMC Mol Biol. 2007 8: 38. Preanalytical mRNA stabilization of whole bone marrow samples. Langebrake C, G?nther K, Lauber J, Reinhardt D. Clin Chem. 2007 53(4): 587-593. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the new qPCR INFO PORTAL and all the presented tools we will help you with to find the right information about qPCR and related topics in Molecular Biology in the literature and in the World Wide Web. => Papers / Protocols / Methods / Databases / Alets / Feeds / Books / Forums / E-mail / Directory http://infoportal.gene-quantification.info/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAmpER - Real-time PCR analysis software CAmpER - Calculation of Amplification Efficiencies for RT-PCR experiments is a tool for the automatic analysis of real time PCR experiments. http://www.gene-quantification.de/download.html#camper Automatic analysis, annotation and storage of real-time PCR experiments performed with different real-time PCR systems, currently the LightCycler? and the Opticon?. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events World-wide academic and commercial qPCR Events http://events.gene-quantification.info/ Symposia, Meetings, Conferences, Workshops, Seminars, Online-Seminars, qPCR Education Program, ...etc.. Please submit your qPCR event here => events@gene- quantification.info -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- qPCR SYMPOSIUM BENELUX The prominent and still growing place taken by real-time quantitative PCR in applied and fundamental research and clinical diagnostics almost appears obvious. However, it is clear that contributions made by various scientists and companies in the field during the last decade rendered this technology useful and affordable for many users. More info => http://www.gene-quantification.de/meetings.html#benelux Importantly, the qPCR domain is still in constant evolution, making it sometimes hard to stay informed about new methodological approaches or original studies using the real-time PCR. Therefore, we have scheduled a one day "Benelux qPCR Symposium" on October 6th 2008, giving the opportunity to the scientific community to get informed and discuss various aspects of real-time PCR (including but not limited to new applications, assay optimization and validation, new technologies, etc.). Scientific talks, posters sessions and industrial booths will be at the menu. Download poster => http://www.gene-quantification.de/qpcr_benelux_poster.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- qPCR Symposium USA 10. - 13. November 2008 Clarion Hotel San Francisco Airport, Millbrae, CA , USA More info => http://www.gene-quantification.de/meetings.html#qpcr_usa - High throughput platforms: High throughput applications, real-time RT-PCR arrays, digital PCR - Forthcoming technologies: Immuno PCR, Methylation sensitive PCR, SNP analysis, High resolution melt, microRNA detection, - Multiplex technologies - Single-cell qPCR: Pre-amplification techniques, sub-cellular PCR, Expression heterogeneity, laser microdissection, FACS sorting, Enrichment of rare cells - Multimarker diagnostics: Disease markers, Tissue specific markers, Cancer markers, Stem cells, Differentiation markers, Cancer stem cells - Real-time PCR Expression Profiling: multivariate and multiway expression profiling, temporal expression profiling, spatiotemporal maps - Pre-analytical Steps: Sampling technologies, Extraction methods, Reverse Transcription, Quality Control, Standards, Standard Operating Procedures, Interlaboratory Exercises - Normalization & Standardization: Normalization strategies, Reference genes, Spikes, Standard curves, multiplexing, inter-run calibrators, quantification strategies, mRNA degradation - Data management and data treatment: software applications, data mining, data visualization, biostatistics, multivariate statistics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- qPCR WORKSHOP TATAA Biocenter Germany - qPCR Application workshops At the TATAA Biocenter Germany we offer qPCR application workshops, the 3-day Core Module and a 2-day Biostatistics Module. qPCR courses are held in regularly in G?teborg, Sweden, in English and in Freising- Weihenstephan, Germany, in German and English, and in Prague, Czech Republic in English and Czech. Depending on the occasion the workshop language and the different prices may apply. Further customized workshops and specialized trainings will be held as well across Europe and world-wide. TATAA Biocenter Germany courses are held in cooperation with the Institute of Physiology, located at the Technical University of Munich, in Freising-Weihenstephan, near Munich, very close to the Munich Airport (MUC). For more information and to register for the qPCR application workshops, please see our web page: http://tataa.gene-quantification.info/ Course Occasions 2008: 3-day qPCR Core Module (Mon. - Wed.) and 2-day BioStatistics Module (Thu. - Fri.) * 7 - 11th July 2008 (in Freising, Germany, English language) * 15 - 19th September 2008 (in Freising, Germany, English language) * 13 - 17 October 2008 (in Freising, Germany, Kurs wird in DEUTSCH gehalten, German language) * 24 - 28th November 2008 (in Freising, Germany, English language) Please register here => http://www.tataa.com/Courses/Courses.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forward Please send the qPCR NEWS to further scientists and friends who are interested in qPCR ! Best regards, Michael W. 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