From sherlock from genome.stanford.edu Fri May 9 18:06:22 2008 From: sherlock from genome.stanford.edu (Gavin Sherlock) Date: Fri May 9 23:07:56 2008 Subject: [Arrays] Registration and Abstract Submission now open for MGED 11 Meeting, Trentino, Italy Message-ID: <852F45A1-9DB1-4A84-AD71-DF7FC5971234@genome.stanford.edu> Dear Colleagues, Apologies if you receive this more than once. It is the pleasure of the Microarray Gene Expression and Data (MGED) society to announce that registration and abstract submission is now open for the MGED11 meeting in Trentino, Italy, Monday September 1st - > Wednesday September 3rd, 2008. In addition, there will be a day of optional tutorials and workshops following the meeting on September 4th. Further information is available at http://www.mgedmeeting.org/ and key dates are: Deadline for Abstract submission for consideration as an oral presentation : June 10th Notice of acceptance: June 25th Early registration ends: June 30th Abstract submission closes: August 5th The scientific focus of the meeting will be high throughput technologies - in particular microarrays and ultra high throughput sequencing - and associated data handling issues and analysis techniques. We have lined up some outstanding speakers who will be giving talks on these topics. This year we will again be selecting half of the plenary speakers from submitted abstracts, to encourage greater participation in the MGED community. Continuing from last year, we will again be running a poster competition, with prizes for the best posters presented by graduate and postdoctoral students. Finally, we will be awarding up to seven $1500 travel grants to graduate or postdoctoral students who are US citizens traveling from the US. We look forward to seeing you all in Trentino, Sincerely, The Microarray and Gene Expression Data (MGED) Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MGED 11 Program Sunday 31st Aug. 15:00 - Registration and Exhibit Area are open Monday 1st Sept. 07:30- Registration opens 08:30- 09:00 Welcome, Introduction and organization details: Chris Stoeckert Catherine Ball, Cesare Furlanello ENCODE Session 09:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture: Ewan Birney 10:00-10:45 Plenary Lecture: Barbara Wold 10:45-11:15 Break 11:15-12:00 Plenary Lecture: Shirley Liu 12:00-12:30 Talks from Submitted abstracts (1) 12:30-14:00 Lunch Wine Genomics Session 14:00-14:45 Plenary Talk: Claudio Moser 14:45-15:30 Talks from Submitted abstracts (2) 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-16:45 Plenary Talk: Duccio Cavalieri 16:45-17:45 Keynote Talk: Grant Cramer 18:00-20:00 Welcome cocktail 21.00 Public Science Conference I Tuesday 2nd Sept. Human Disease Session 09:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture: Joe Gray 10:00-10:45 Plenary Lecture: Mike Bittner 10:45-11:00 Break 11:00-11:45 Plenary Lecture: Nigel Carter 11:45-12:30 Talks from Submitted abstracts (3) 12:30-14:00 Lunch Quality and Standards in Action 14:00-14:15 Introduction and update on MGED Standards: Chris Stoeckert 14:15-14:30 MAGE-TAB Tools: Helen Parkinson/Tim Rayner 14:30-14:45 ISA-TAB and integrative standards: Susanna-Assunta Sansone 14:45-15:30 Title TBA (Semantic Web and Gene Expression): Alan Ruttenberg 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-18:00 Poster Session I 19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner Wednesday 3rd Sept. Learning from Microarray Data 09:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture: Naama Barkai 09:45-10:30 Plenary Talk: Rainer Spang 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-11:45 Plenary Talk: Atul Butte 11:45-12:30 Talks from Submitted Abstracts (3) 12:30-14:00 Lunch Functional Genomics and Systems Biology 14:00-15:00 Keynote Lecture : Stephen Oliver 15:00-15:30 Break 15:30-16:15 Talks from Submitted Abstracts (3) 16:15-17:00 Plenary Lecture TBA 17:00-19:00 Poster Session II Close of Meeting, Final Announcements, Award of Poster Prizes 20.15 Public Science Conference 2 Thursday 4th Sept. Workshops 8:30 - 11:30 Morning Parallel Sessions • Data Analysis Tutorial: John Quackenbush and Roger Bumgarner • Tutorial on using Bioconductor for Array Quality Assessment: Audrey Kauffmann and Wolfgang Huber 11:30 - 14:30 Gene Pattern tutorial: Ted Liefeld 14:30 - 17:30 Afternoon Parallel Sessions • Using ArrayExpress Tutorial: Gabriella Rustici andMisha Kapushesky • EMERALD Workshop on Array Quality Assessment Methods: Marc Salit and Wolfgang Huber From socbin08 from kreil.org Thu May 29 19:19:44 2008 From: socbin08 from kreil.org (Dr. D. P. Kreil) Date: Fri May 30 13:27:28 2008 Subject: [Arrays] CAMDA'08 Challenge -- Contest data set release, Call for Papers, and Conference Announcement Message-ID: <20e578260805291719l3f432690n7273c6df49bce893@mail.gmail.com> CAMDA'08, Vienna, Austria, 4-6 December 2008 -- http://camda.bioinfo.cipf.es/ Dear colleague! We cordially invite you to attend this year's conference on Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis (CAMDA) . CAMDA was founded to provide a forum for the critical assessment of the many different techniques used in microarray data mining (Nature 411, 885, Nature 424, 610). It aims to establish the state of the art in microarray data analysis, as well as highlight progress and identify directions of future efforts. In order to achieve these goals, CAMDA adopted the approach of a community-wide experiment, letting the scientific community analyse the same contest data sets. Researchers worldwide are invited to take the CAMDA challenge. Accepted submissions will be asked to give an oral presentation. Results of analysis are discussed and compared at the CAMDA conference. As a special opportunity, this year, a selection of analysis predictions will also be verified experimentally by the laboratory collecting the original contest data set. CAMDA provides a unique environment for testing and demonstrating your latest analysis methods. CAMDA, which began in 2000, was initiated by Simon Lin and Kimberly Johnson from the Duke University Bioinformatics Shared Resource (www.camda.duke.edu). CAMDA has since become an internationally roving conference, with the first such meeting held 2007 at CIPF in Valencia, Spain. This year, CAMDA is hosted by Boku University Vienna in Austria. Your participation is critical for making this year's CAMDA meeting again a great event. Please do distribute this announcement to other colleagues who might be interested. We look forward to seeing you in Vienna! David Kreil & Joaquin Dopazo (chairs) CAMDA'08 Conference, Vienna, Austria, 4-6 December 2008 Conference home http://camda.bioinfo.cipf.es/ Contest data set at http://camda.bioinfo.cipf.es/contest_dataset Important Dates: 2008-06-01 Public release of Contest Data Set 2008-09-28 Extended Abstract Proposals due 2008-11-01 Acceptance notification for session speakers 2008-11-01 Acceptance notification for poster presenters 2008-11-03 Early registration closes 2008-12-04 Conference opens (later p.m.) 2008-12-06 Conference closes 2009-01-31 Full paper submission (--- for technical reasons, you may receive this announcement more than once ---)