From jun.2004.liu from gmail.com Thu Nov 1 06:36:42 2007 From: jun.2004.liu from gmail.com (jun liu) Date: Thu Nov 1 08:35:06 2007 Subject: [Bioforum] BMEI 2008, Sanya, China: Deadline 10 November Message-ID: <246c4da80711010436n3c9851adhdd39d070321261e3@mail.gmail.com> ** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2008 International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2008) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 28 - 30 May 2008, Sanya, Hainan, China Submission Deadline: 10 November 2007 http://www.hainu.edu.cn/BMEI2008 Call for Papers, Invited Sessions & Sponsorship The aim of BMEI2008 is to bring together researchers working in many different areas of biomedical engineering and informatics to foster international collaborations and exchange of new ideas. The BMEI 2008 conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be indexed in both EI and ISTP. Selected good papers will be recommended for publication in SCI/SCI-E indexed international journals. The BMEI 2008 will be co-located with the 2008 Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2008: http://www.hainu.edu.cn/CISP2008), in order to promote cross-fertilization between the broad areas of biomedical engineering and signal processing. ABOUT SANYA Sanya is one of China's premier tourist destinations, with white-sand beaches, charming scenery, hot-springs, and popular activities such as scuba-diving and rafting. More than 20 ethnic groups, including Han, Li, Miao, and Hui, inhabit Sanya and make Sanya a wonderful place to appreciate the various cultures of China. For more information, visit the conference web page or email the secretariat at bmei2008@hainu.edu.cn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/bioforum/attachments/20071101/8ec862e1/attachment.html From wcecs_2008 from iaeng.org Mon Nov 5 12:37:11 2007 From: wcecs_2008 from iaeng.org (wcecs_2008@iaeng.org) Date: Mon Nov 5 13:50:57 2007 Subject: [Bioforum] First Call for Papers: The World Congress on Engineering (WCE 2008) Message-ID: <1194284231.753558.135170@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> CFP: The World Congress on Engineering WCE 2008 From: IAENG - International Association of Engineers World Congress on Engineering 2008 Official WCE Congress Web Page: http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2008 WCE Important Dates: Draft Paper Submission Deadline: 6 March, 2008 Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration Due: 31 March, 2008 WCE 2008: 2-4 July, 2008 The WCE 2008 is organized by International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. The congress has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. The WCE conferences serve as good platforms for our members and the entire engineering community to meet with each other and to exchange ideas. The recent IAENG conference has attracted more than seven hundred participants from over 30 countries. Our congress committees have been formed with over three hundred committee members who are mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads, professors, and research scientists from different universities like Cambridge, MIT and Oxford etc. ============= WCE Congress Co-chairs Prof. Alexander M. Korsunsky Professor of Engineering Science Dean, Trinity College Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK Prof. Andrew Hunter Professor & Head of Department Head of Vision and AI Research Group, Dean of Research, Department of Computing and Informatics, Lincoln University, UK Prof. David WL Hukins, CPhys, FinstP, FIPEM, FRSE Professor of Bio-medical Engineering Head of Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK Prof. Leonid Gelman (honorary co-chair) Professor and Chair in Vibro-Acoustic Monitoring, Chairman of COMADIT, British Institute of NDT, Director, Centre of Vibro-Acoustics and Fatigue, Department of Process and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering Cranfield University, UK Dr. Christopher John Hogger (honorary co-chair) Senior Lecturer Department of Computing Imperial College London, UK Prof. Darek J. Ceglarek (ICMEEM honorary co-chair) Professor, International Manufacturing Centre, University of Warwick, UK Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Fellow of CIRP; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and ASME Transactions on Manufacturing Science and Engineering Dr. Stephen Payne (ICSBB honorary co-chair) University Lecturer in BioMedical Engineering Dean of Degrees Keble College, Head of Physiological Understanding through Modelling, Monitoring and Analysis Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK The conference proceedings will be published by IAENG (ISBN: 978-988-98671-9-5) in hardcopy. The full-text congress proceeding will be indexed in major database indexes so that it can be assessed easily. The Technology Research Databases (TRD) of CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), DBLP and Computer Science Bibliographies have promised to index the print proceeding in advance of its publication. And after the publication of the proceeding, print copies will also be sent to databases like IET INSPEC, Engineering Index (EI) and ISI Thomson Scientific for indexing. The accepted papers will also be considered for publication in the special issues of the journal Engineering Letters. Some participants may also be invited to submit extended version of their conference papers for considering as book chapters (soon after the conference). The following conferences are held as parts of the WCE 2008: ICAEM'08 The 2008 International Conference of Applied and Engineering Mathematics ICCIIS'08 The 2008 International Conference of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems ICCSDE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Computational Statistics and Data Engineering ICCSE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Computer Science and Engineering ICDMKE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering ICEEE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineering ICFE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Financial Engineering ICIE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Information Engineering ICISIE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Information Security and Internet Engineering ICME'08 The 2008 International Conference of Mechanical Engineering ICMEEM'08 The 2008 International Conference of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management ICPDC'08 The 2008 International Conference of Parallel and Distributed Computing ICSBB'08 The 2008 International Conference of Systems Biology and Bioengineering ICSIE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Signal and Image Engineering ICWN'08 The 2008 International Conference of Wireless Networks ========= Submission: WCE 2008 is now accepting manuscript submissions. Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper in full paper (any appropriate style) to WCE{at}iaeng.org by 6 March, 2008. The submitted file can be in MS Word format, PS format, or PDF formats. The first page of the draft paper should include: (1) Title of the paper; (2) Name, affiliation and e-mail address for each author; (3) A maximum of 5 keywords of the paper. Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to should be stated in the email. It is our target that the reviewing process and the result notification for each submitted manuscript can be completed within one month from its submission. The reviewing process is to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in the WCE congress. The conferences have enjoyed high reputation among many research colleagues ( for example, see the http://cs.conference-ranking.net/ or http://www.conference-ranking.com/ or http://www.conference-ranking.org/cs.html ). More details about the WCE 2008 can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2008/index.html http://www.iaeng.com/WCE2008/index.html http://www.iaeng.net/WCE2008/index.html More details about the International Association of Engineers, and the IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, and the IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/about_IAENG.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/index.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html The official journal web site of Engineering Letters at: http://www.engineeringletters.com Other Engineering Letters web sites at: http://www.engineeringletters.com ******** It will be highly appreciated if you can circulate these calls for papers to your colleagues. From hra from pixel.cviog.uga.edu Wed Nov 14 13:24:37 2007 From: hra from pixel.cviog.uga.edu (Hamid R. Arabnia) Date: Wed Nov 14 13:32:32 2007 Subject: [Bioforum] Call For Papers: WORLDCOMP'08; 25 Int'l Joint Conferences in Computer Science, July 2008, USA Message-ID: <20071114182437.B566B224593F@pixel.cviog.uga.edu> Dear Colleagues: Please disseminate the following announcement to those who may be interested. I would be most grateful. Thank you, Hamid ----- Call For Papers and Call For Session Proposals The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing WORLDCOMP'08 (composed of 25 Joint Conferences) July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA You are invited to submit a paper and/or a proposal to organize a session/workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The Academic Co-sponsors of WORLDCOMP'08 will soon be finalized which will include research laboratories affiliated with major institutions (Academic Co-sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 included: major research laboratories at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, The University of Texas at Austin, Purdue University, Indiana University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Russian Academy of Sciences, and others. Corporate sponsors included: Google, Inc.; Intel Corporation; and Salford Systems). The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08) is composed of the following 25 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 14-17, 2008, USA): o The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Information Theory and Statistical Learning (ITSL'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'08) o The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'8) (a link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org - the web site is currently under construction; servers are being replaced - the link shown above would take you to the 2007 offering of WORLDCOMP; later, the same link would take you to the the 2008 WORLDCOMP.) General Chair and Coordinator: H. R. Arabnia, PhD Professor, Computer Science Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu Purpose / History: This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Many of the 25 joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective fields. We anticipate to have 2,600 or more attendees from over 80 countries participating in the 2008 joint conferences. The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact. The model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication among researchers from all over the world in different fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Both inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the conferences. WORLCOMP'08 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial speakers included: Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley); Prof. A. K. Dunker (Indiana U. and Purdue U.); Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (developer of X Window, ...); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and many other distinguished speakers. Proposal for Organizing Sessions/Workshops: Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books. Proposals to organize sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, the name of the conference the session is submitted for consideration, and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). email your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address is given above). We would like to receive the proposals by December 10, 2007. Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 25, 2008. email submissions in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal submissions are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.) The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, email address, and telephone number for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to must be stated on the first page. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are independent of the conference program committee. The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that the paper has been submitted to. The chair will make the final decision. Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee. Members of Program and Organizing Committees: The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI; imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) The Program Committee for individual conferences is currently being formed. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia (hra@cs.uga.edu) the following information: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with research interests and the name of the conference offering to help with. Location of Conferences: The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows, a number of restaurants, ... The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions (recreational destinations, Golf courses, ...) Important Dates: Dec. 10, 2007: Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops Feb. 25, 2008: Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages) March 25, 2008: Notification of acceptance April 25, 2008: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due July 14-17, 2008: The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08 - 25 joint conferences) Topical Scope for each Conference: To receive the complete list of topics for each of the 25 conferences, send an email to hra@cs.uga.edu or wait for the conferences' url's to be constructed. Future Announcements: If you do not wish to receive future announcements about this event, please send an email to hra@cs.uga.edu. From d.bratton from gold.ac.uk Fri Nov 16 07:49:43 2007 From: d.bratton from gold.ac.uk (Dan Bratton) Date: Fri Nov 16 10:27:58 2007 Subject: [Bioforum] Computational Swarm Intelligence at AISB Message-ID: <2086.158.223.59.68.1195217383.squirrel@secure2.gold.ac.uk> ***What is Computational Swarm Intelligence?*** A symposium of the AISB 2008 Convention on Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence, April 1st - 4th, 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland. Website: http://igor.gold.ac.uk/~mas01tb/AISB08/index.html Are there any unifying principles underlying the behaviour of swarm algorithms and how they can be effectively harnessed to develop new computational techniques? This symposium is particularly interested in discussing the conceptual and theoretical overlaps between common swarm algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO), Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) and Stochastic Diffusion Search (SDS). Are they compatible? And if they are incompatible, what are the overlapping problem domains? Previous research directions have looked towards physics and, in particular, biology for new ideas. Computational Swarm Intelligence (CSI) can now, however, be regarded as an autonomous aggregate of techniques and ideas that so far have not been unified. Is there a mathematical, algorithmic framework which will enable us to understand and analyse these algorithms? The aim of this symposium is not to say which algorithm is superior at which problem, but rather to make comparisons at a conceptual level. The symposium will run for a single day during the main AISB convention. At the end of the paper presentations, an informal debate will attempt to hammer out a CSI metaheuristic. Topics Papers are welcomed on any theoretical, conceptual or mathematical issue that advances and generalises our understanding of any single CSI paradigm (PSO, ACO, SDS,...). Attempts to formulate a CSI metaheuristic, to make cross-algorithm comparisons and/or attempt a unification are particularly welcome. Any work which links CSI to results in the field of Global Optimisation (GO), and any advances in GO which may reflect back on a CSI metaheuristic are also invited. Any output which may justifiably move us closer to an answer to our question will be warmly received. Submissions and Publications Papers, which should be in the region of 5-8 pages, prepared according to these guidelines and in pdf format, should be emailed to the symposium co-chairs by January 14th 2008. All papers from the AISB convention will be published in the AISB proceedings, with an ISBN number. A special issue in a journal is being planned to collect the best papers from this and our companion swarm intelligence and applications symposium at AISB 08. Important Dates Deadline for submission of papers: January 14th, 2008. Notification of acceptance: February 15th, 2008. Symposium: April 3rd, 2008 (tbc). AISB 08 convention: April 1st - 4th, 2008. Awards There is a best student paper award, and scholarships. Programme Committee Dr. T. Blackwell (Co-chair) Dept. Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW. tim.blackwell@gold.ac.uk Dr Kris De Meyer (Co-chair) Division of Engineering King's College London Strand, London, WC2R 2LS kris.de_meyer@kcl.ac.uk Dr Mark Bishop (Goldsmiths, University of London) Dr Slawomir Nasuto (University of Reading) Daniel Bratton (Goldsmiths, University of London) From iis from ipipan.waw.pl Fri Nov 16 09:39:19 2007 From: iis from ipipan.waw.pl (IIS'08 Conference) Date: Fri Nov 16 15:28:33 2007 Subject: [Bioforum] Call for Papers - IIS 2008 Message-ID: <01b501c8285e$dc7e9820$712487d5@ipipan.waw.pl> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry, if you received this message more than once. Feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2008 -- IIS 2008 Zakopane, Poland, 16-18 June 2008 Conference Web page: http://iis.ipipan.waw.pl/ Scope: ===== Papers on these and related subjects are particularly encouraged: - Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), - Computational Linguistics (CL), - Knowledge Discovery (KD), - Search Engines (SE). The Conference's focus will also be on the following topics: - new computing paradigms, including, but not restricted to biologically motivated methods, quantum computing, DNA computing, - advanced data analysis, - new machine learning paradigms, - reasoning technologies, - natural language processing, - novelty detection, - new optimisation technologies, - applied data mining using statistical and non-standard approaches, - technologies for very large text bases, - uncertainty management. Invited Speakers: ================ Erhard Hinrichs (University of T?bingen, Germany) Renato De Mori (University of Avignon, France) Gilbert Ritschard (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Important Dates: =============== 31 January 2008 - paper submission deadline 29 February 2008 - acceptance/rejection decision due 31 March 2008 - submission of camera-ready papers 16-18 June 2008 - IIS 2008 Publication: =========== The conference proceedings in paper and electronic form will be distributed at the conference. They will be available on-line after the conference. Selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue of the International Journal "Control and Cybernetics". Paper Submission: ================ The working language of the conference is English. Only original, unpublished papers are invited. Authors should upload an electronic version of the full paper (as PDF) by using the conference registration site (will be available soon) before 31 January 2008. The conference organisers invite long (10 pages) and short (5 pages) papers. The papers should be organised in accordance with common scientific structure (abstract, state of the art in the field, intention, used methodology, obtained results and references). The papers will be refereed by an international committee, and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit, novelty and relevance to the conference topics. After notification of acceptance, authors will be allowed to make corrections in accordance with the suggestions of the reviewers and submit final camera-ready papers. The final papers are to be prepared using LaTeX. The accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings and selected papers, after additional review, will be published in a special issue of the International Journal "Control and Cybernetics". The accepted papers must be presented by the authors personally to be published in the conference proceedings. Workshops: ========= There will be two workshops on 18 June 2008, "Spoken Language Understanding and Dialogue Systems" and "Interoperable European Language Resources and Technology", announced separately (details are also available at the IIS 2008 Web page). Workshop submissions should follow the general submission procedure. Conference Chairs: ================= Mieczys?aw A. K?opotek Adam Przepi?rkowski S?awomir T. Wierzcho? Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences Programme Committee: =================== Witold Abramowicz (Pozna? University of Economics, Poland) Stanis?aw Ambroszkiewicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Peter J. Bentley (University College London, UK) Petr Berka (University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic) Leonid S. Berstein (Taganrog State University of Radioengineering, Russia) Leonard Bolc (Polish Academy of Science, Poland) Ant?nio Horta Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Luis Miguel deCampos (University of Granada, Spain) Andrzej Czy?ewski (Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland) Piotr Dembi?ski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) W?odzis?aw Duch (Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland) Tapio Elomaa (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Floriana Esposito (Bary University, Italy) Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, Germany) Jerzy W. Grzyma?a-Busse (University of Kansas, USA) Mohand-Said Hacid (University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France) Ray J. Hickey (University of Ulster, UK) Erhard Hinrichs (University of T?bingen, Germany) Zdzis?aw S. Hippe (University of Information Technology and Management in Rzesz?w, Poland) Tu Bao Ho (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Janusz Kacprzyk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Jozef Korbicz (University of Zielona G?ra, Poland) Jacek Koronacki (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Anna Kup?? (University Bordeaux 3, France) Ernestina Menasalvas (Technical University of Madrid, Spain) Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University, USA) Maciej Michalewicz (NuTech Solutions Polska, Poland) Zbigniew Michalewicz (University of Adelaide, Australia) Agnieszka Mykowiecka (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Karel Pala (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) James F. Peters (University of Manitoba, Canada) Zbigniew W. Ra? (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) Jan Rauch (University of Economics, Czech Republic) Giuseppe Riccardi (University of Trento, Italy) Gilbert Ritschard (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Henryk Rybi?ski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem (Ain Shams University, Egypt) Simeon J. Simoff (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw University, Poland) Tomek Strza?kowski (University at Albany, USA) Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada) Roman ?winiarski (San Diego State University, USA) Ryszard Tadeusiewicz (University of Science and Technology, Poland) Jonathan Timmis (University of York, UK) Dan Tufi? (Romanian Academy, Romania) Angelina Tzacheva (University of South Carolina Upstate, USA) Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Alicja Wakulicz-Deja (University of Silesia, Poland) Jan W?glarz (Pozna? University of Technology, Poland) Alessandro Zanasi (TEMIS, Italy) Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China) Djamel A. Zighed (Lumiere Lyon 2 University, France) Jana Zvarova (EuroMISE Centre, Czech Republic) Contact: ======= Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Ordona 21 01-237 Warsaw, Poland phone: ++48 22 8362841 fax: ++48 22 8376564 email: iis@ipipan.waw.pl ====================================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/bioforum/attachments/20071116/2000dbaa/attachment.html From brinza.dumitru from gmail.com Sun Nov 18 17:30:34 2007 From: brinza.dumitru from gmail.com (brinza.dumitru@gmail.com) Date: Sun Nov 18 18:33:13 2007 Subject: [Bioforum] ISBRA 2008: 4-th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications Message-ID: <763cb09b-9ecc-46b6-a64f-216dce54762c@e1g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================ ISBRA 2008 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications May 6-8, 2008 Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia http://www.cs.gsu.edu/ISBRA/ ================================================ The International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. Authors are invited to submit papers that demonstrate original unpublished research in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Surveys of important recent research results and directions are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Biomedical databases and data integration * Biomedical image processing * Bio-ontologies * Comparative genomics * Computational genetic epidemiology * Computational proteomics * Data mining and visualization * Gene expression analysis * Genome analysis * High-performance bio-computing * Molecular evolution and phylogenetics * Molecular modeling and simulation * Pattern discovery and classification * Population genetics * RNA and protein structure prediction * Sequence assembly * Software tools and applications * Systems biology SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ISBRA proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series. Papers must be submitted electronically by following the instructions at http://www.easychair.org/ISBRA08 . Submissions must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 12 pages in length. Simultaneous submission to journals or other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. As in previous years, it is anticipated that a special issue of a major bioinformatics journal will be devoted to extended versions of best symposium papers. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline December 21, 2007 Notification of acceptance January 25, 2008 Final Version Submission February 15, 2008 LOCATION ISBRA 2008 will be held at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Atlanta's major attractions--Centennial Olympic Park, Underground Atlanta, CNN Center, the World of Coca-Cola, and the Georgia Aquarium (the largest in the world)--can all be reached by a ten-minute walk from the GSU campus. GENERAL CHAIRS Dan Gusfield, University of California, Davis Yi Pan, Georgia State University PROGRAM CHAIRS Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut Raj Sunderraman, Georgia State University Alexander Zelikovsky, Georgia State University CONTACT INFORMATION Please direct questions to Ion Mandoiu (ion@engr.uconn.edu), Alexander Zelikovsky (alexz@cs.gsu.edu), or Raj Sunderraman (raj@cs.gsu.edu). CONFERENCE WEB SITE: http://www.cs.gsu.edu/ISBRA/ From wce_2008 from iaeng.org Wed Nov 21 08:46:18 2007 From: wce_2008 from iaeng.org (wce_2008@iaeng.org) Date: Wed Nov 21 13:19:52 2007 Subject: [Bioforum] Call for Papers: The 2008 International Conference of Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering ICDMKE 2008 Message-ID: CFP: The 2008 International Conference of Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering ICDMKE 2008 From: IAENG - International Association of Engineers http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2008/ICDMKE2008.html Draft Paper Submission Deadline: 6 March, 2008 Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration Due: 31 March, 2008 WCE 2008: 2-4 July, 2008 The conference ICDMKE'08 is held under the World Congress on Engineering 2008. The WCE 2008 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. Our congress committees have been formed with over two hundred and eighty committee members who are mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads, professors, and research scientists from different universities like Cambridge, MIT and Oxford etc. The conference proceedings will be published by IAENG (ISBN: 978-988-98671-9-5) in hardcopy. The full-text congress proceeding will be indexed in major database indexes so that it can be assessed easily. The Technology Research Databases (TRD) of CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), DBLP and Computer Science Bibliographies have promised to index the print proceeding in advance of its publication. And after the publication of the proceeding, print copies will also be sent to databases like IEE INSPEC, Engineering Index (EI) and ISI Thomson Scientific for indexing. The accepted papers will also be considered for publication in the special issues of the journal Engineering Letters. Some participants may also be invited to submit extended version of their conference papers for considering as book chapters (soon after the conference). The topics include, but not limited to, the following: Data Mining: Machine Learning Signal Engineering Structural Equations Mixture Models Nonlinear Time Series Financial Econometrics Software and Tools for Statistical Computing Matrix Computations Structured Data Engineering Statistical Analysis for Functional Data Genomics Partial Least Squares Recursive Partitioning Information Retrieval Decision Support Systems Text Mining Decision Trees Association Rules Dimensional Modeling Statistical Algorithm for Data Engineering Data Warehousing Pattern Matching Rule-Based Algorithms Clustering Web Mining Spatial Data Mining Knowledge Engineering: Knowledge Management Methods Information Extraction Discovery Techniques Database Engineering Data Security Software Tools Performance Evaluation Methods Knowledge Based Applications Fault-Tolerance Systems Large-Scale Information Processing Content Management Decision Support Systems Expert Systems Geographic Information Systems Routing and Scheduling ========= Submission: WCE 2008 is now accepting manuscript submissions. Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper in full paper (any appropriate style) to WCE{at}iaeng.org by 22 March, 2008. The submitted file can be in MS Word format, PS format, or PDF formats. The first page of the draft paper should include: (1) Title of the paper; (2) Name, affiliation and e-mail address for each author; (3) A maximum of 5 keywords of the paper. Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to should be stated in the email. It is our target that the reviewing process and the result notification for each submitted manuscript can be completed within one month from its submission. The reviewing process is to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in the WCE congress. The conferences have enjoyed high reputation among many research colleagues ( for example, see the http://cs.conference-ranking.net/ or http://www.conference-ranking.com/ or http://www.conference-ranking.org/cs.html ). ============= ICDMKE 2008 Conference Committee Dr. Aladdin Ayesh Senior Lecturer in AI and Robotics, director of Intelligent Mobile Robots and Creative Computing research group, Computer Science Department, De Montfort University, UK Dr. Jiping Bai Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering, Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom Prof. Mietek Brdys Head of 'Decision Support and Control Systems' Network Research Centre and Director of Postgraduate Admissions, Department of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Birmingham, UK Professor, Faculty of Electrical and Control Engineering, Dept. of Control Systems, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Prof. Chin-Chen Chang (co-chair; IEEE Fellow, IEE Fellow) Chair Professor in Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Dr. Darryl N Davis Director of Research, Department of Computer Science, University of Hull, UK Prof. Suash Deb Professor of Computer Science at National Institute of Science & Technology, India Prof Bogdan Gabrys Professor, Chair in Computational Intelligence, Computational Intelligence Research Group, School of Design, Engineering & Computing, Bournemouth University, UK Prof. Rosa Eva Pruneda Gonzalez Associated Professor, Mathematics Department, Civil Engineering School, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Dr. Ben James Hicks Senior Research Fellow, Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, UK Dr. Jun Hong School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, UK Dr. M. Oguzhan Kulekci Senior Researcher, National Research Institute of Electronics & Cryptology, Turkey Prof. Algirdas Laukaitis Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems, Vilnius Gedinimas Technical University, Lithuania Prof. Prabhat K. Mahanti Professor & Chair, Department of Computer Science applied Statistics, University of New Brunswick, Canada Dr. I.M. Mujtaba (co-chair) Reader in Computational Engineering, School of Engineering, Design & Technology, University of Bradford, England Dr. Mourad Oussalah Lecturer, Department of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Birmingham, UK Dr Valentina Plekhanova Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Sunderland, School of Computing and Technology, United Kingdom Dr. Agusti Solanas Research Scientist, CRISES Research Group, Department of Computer Science and Maths, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain Dr Xue-Zhong Wang (co-chair) Senior Lecturer, School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Leeds, UK Dr. Mark Ware Reader, Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan, UK Prof. Valentina Zharkova Professor of Applied Mathematics, School of Informatics, University of Bradford, UK ============= WCE Congress Co-chairs Prof. Alexander M. Korsunsky Professor of Engineering Science Dean, Trinity College Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK Prof. Andrew Hunter Professor & Head of Department Head of Vision and AI Research Group, Dean of Research Department of Computing and Informatics, Lincoln University, UK Prof. David WL Hukins, CPhys, FinstP, FIPEM, FRSE Professor of Bio-medical Engineering Head of Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK Prof. Leonid Gelman (honorary co-chair) Professor and Chair in Vibro-Acoustic Monitoring, Chairman of COMADIT, British Institute of NDT, Director, Centre of Vibro-Acoustics and Fatigue, Department of Process and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering Cranfield University, UK Dr. Christopher John Hogger (honorary co-chair) Senior Lecturer Department of Computing Imperial College London, UK Prof. Darek J. Ceglarek (ICMEEM honorary co-chair) Professor, International Manufacturing Centre, University of Warwick, UK Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Fellow of CIRP; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and ASME Transactions on Manufacturing Science and Engineering Dr. Stephen Payne (ICSBB honorary co-chair) University Lecturer in BioMedical Engineering Dean of Degrees Keble College, Head of Physiological Understanding through Modelling, Monitoring and Analysis Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK More details about the WCE 2008 can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2008/index.html http://www.iaeng.net/WCE2008/index.html http://www.iaeng.com/WCE2008/index.html More details about the International Association of Engineers, and the IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, and the IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/about_IAENG.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/index.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html The official journal web site of Engineering Letters at: http://www.engineeringletters.com Other Engineering Letters web sites at: http://www.engineeringletters.net http://www.engineeringletter.com ******** It will be highly appreciated if you can circulate these calls for papers to your colleagues. From globalbiotek from gmail.com Thu Nov 29 07:04:36 2007 From: globalbiotek from gmail.com (Global Institute of Biotechnology) Date: Thu Nov 29 13:22:18 2007 Subject: [Bioforum] Trainings/Projects on Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, MicroBiology, Drug Designing and SAS Programming at Global Institute of Biotechnology Message-ID: <1e8dce27-3b52-4c1e-a42c-5e1069cae050@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> GLOBAL INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY ( A unit of SVS Education Society, Regn No 1640 of 2005, Govt.A.P.) 3-6-276/2, Sai Triveni Chambers, Above Mahesh Bank, Hyderabad, A.P. Projects and Training Programmes in on Bioinformatics,Molecular Biology,MicroBiology and Drug Designing and SAS Programming at Global Institute of Biotechnology ABOUT OURSELVES Global Institute of Biotechnology in its short span of existence for a period of Three years has emerged as a premier Institute in the field of Training and Research in Bioinformatics,Biotechnology and Other Life Sciences.The Institute is equipped with the state of the art laboratories in the above fields and is manned by suitably qualified and experienced faculty. In order to prepare the students to meet the needs of modern Biotech,Pharma,and other Life Science Industries, the Institute is also providing training and project work in SAS ( Statistics Analysis Systems ) which has become a gold standard for analysis and management of data in Clinical and Biological Research. Similarly students of the Biotechnology course, wherein the emphasis is on the wet lab experimentation, have been undergoing internship in various biotech companies The Institute proudly invites applications for Short/Long Term Training Programmes and Research Projects as detailed below: BIOINFORMATICS During the past many years, the Genome of several organisms' including manhave been completely or Partially sequenced. However these billions of DNA bases do not tell us much about, what all these genes do what is their exact role in the process of Development, growth, ageing and disease. We know that ultimately proteins are coded by genes and control life Processes. However elucidations of the functions of proteins are not yet clear. This is where functional genomics, proteomics and Bioinformatics is an amalgamation of the data in biological sciences and tools of computing in information technology. Bioinformatics uses computational power to catalogue, organize and structure these complex databases and pieces them into meaningful biological entities, to provide easy access to data on many developments in the fields of Medical, Pharmaceutical, Agricultural, Animal and Microbial Biotechnologies. Computational tools have become increasingly important in processes leading to new inventions in Biotechnology. Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) is a central part of the rational approach for Drug Discovery. CADD is an inter disciplinary field, which includes computational inputs from Chemistry, Biology, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Information Technology. Etc. This is an emerging field, with wide range of applications. Various aspects of this field include Quantum Chemistry, Molecular Mechanics, Molecular Docking, Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (3D QSAR), Conformational Analysis, etc. A major component of CADD is Molecular Modeling and Screening of the Substrate ligand interactions in silico. Our endeavour is to crate a lively environment for the advancement of Bioinformatics and to generate an innovative workforce in this exciting and expanding field. COURSE CONTENTS Module:1 BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND SEQUENCE ANALYSIS (Duration: 1 month) BIOLOGICAL DATABASES * Introduction to Bioinformatics * Molecular Databases * Primary Databanks, GENEBANK, EMBL, DDBJ * Secondary Databases, SWISSPORT, PIR, TrEMBL * PFAM. INTERPRO * Motif Database, PROSITE * Structural Database (PDB) * Classification Database(SCOP, CATH) * Eukaryotic Promoter Database . SEQUENCE ANALYSIS * Database similarity search * Pair wise alignment * Dot Matrix Comparison * Needleman-Wunsch Algarithm * Smith Waterman Algarithm * Local Sequence Alignment * Global Sequence Alignment * Multiple Sequence Alignment * Pattern, Motifs and Profiles * Primer Designing Module:2 GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS ( Duration: 1 Month ) GENOMICS * Sequence Alignments and its Applications * Genome Modelling * Gene Sequence analysis * Primer Designing * SNP Detection and Haplo typing * Chromosome Mapping and Linkage Analysis * Computational Assembly of a Genome PROTEOMICS * Protein Sequence Analysis * Approaches for Protein Structure Predection * Phylogenetic analysis of Protein Families * Homology and comparative modeling of protein * Active site identification Module:3 DRUG DESIGNING AND DRUG DISCOVERY ( Duration: 1 Month ) DRUG DESIGNING * Building small molecules * Properties of Drug molecules * Ligand protein interactions * Binding Energy calculations * Energy minimization methods * Molecular Dynamics and simulation studies * Ligand based drug designingFragment based drug designing DRUG DISCOVERY * Selection and Identification of Target Concepts in molecular recognition * Ligand Docking algorithms * Kinetics and Thermodynamics of protein drug binding * Drug delivery PROJECT WORK IN Sequence Analysis, Protein Modelling, Structure and Ligand Based Drug Designing. SAS FOR LIFE SCIENCES SAS (Statistical Analysis Systems) is a software used for data analysis by more than 40,000 customers worldwide. SAS provides many solutions for life sciences including Optimization of the flow of Scientific Data, Integration of molecular information with clinical outcomes, Building a centralized, searchable repository of all research information, Compliance with regulatory requirements ,Assessment of safety and effectiveness of new therapies, Management of Data from various sources like Electronic Data Captures (EDC), In House Clinical Data Management System (CDMS) and Contract Research Organizations (CROs),Generation of Presentation-Ready Statistical Summaries of Clinical Trial and other Biomedical Research Data. The Data Analysis and Reporting Tools of SAS are already the Defacto Standards among Pharma Companies and other Life Science Industries.USFDA Cosiders SAS Validation as an important Component of Quality Assurance, Reliability and Accuracy of Information for the Approval of New Drugs. This Course will mainly focus on Statistics, Quantitative analysis, Research Design, and Data management, Data Analysis relating to Life Sciences. SAS is used in many fields, particularly in Medical Research and Drug Development. SAS is best learned as part of a course or through interactive lessons rather than through self-study. With SAS, we can dramatically improve our data analysis capabilities and processes, of ready-to-use statistical analysis procedures and rich, built-in graphical functionality to reveal relationships and correlations. It saves time and expenses associated with data manipulation. This Course also introduces the concept of SAS in life sciences and also covers Live Projects on Techno-Functional and Functional Modules. This Course Aims at Creating Man Power in this Hi-Tech , ever growing and much needed area, who can play a professional role at National and International level. These Professionals can also enjoy an unique, Challenging and Profitable Job Profiles. SCOPE * Statistical Analysis of Clinical and Research Data using SAS SoftWare. * Prepare Custom derived SAS Data Sets. * Help ion Programming for New Drug Applications(NDAs). * Preparing repots for Drug Development (Phases I - IV). COURSE CONTENTS All Modules: (1-3) : DURATION: THREE MONTHS * BASE SAS * SAS MACROS * SAS/ACCESS * SAS/CONNECT * SAS/SQL * SAS/ETL * SAS/STAT * SAS/QC * SAS/GENETICS Module 1 Duration: 1 Month SAS/BASE * Introduction to SAS Programming * Importance SAS for Lifesciences * Creating SAS libraries and Datasets * Reading Data to Data sets * Creating permanent libraries in SAS environment * Reading external source data to SAS Dataset * Writing SAS Data to external sources * Importing and Exporting of Data * Formats and Informats * Conditional statements * Automatic variables, Pointers * Reading Rawdata, Cleaning of Data * ODS ,DDE ,ARRAYS BASE SAS PROCEDURES * Proc Print,Proc Options, Proc Sort , Proc Append * Proc Transpose ,Proc Forms ,Proc Report , Proc Tabulate * Proc Import ,Proc Export , Proc Informats , Proc Formats * Proc Chart , Proc GChart , Proc Plot , Proc Printto etc. Module 2 Duration: 1 Month SAS/MACROS * Introduction to Macros , Statements in Macros * %Put , %Let , %Mprint ,% Mend , Nested Macros , %Symbolgen SAS/ CONNECT SAS/ACCESS SAS/SQL(PASSTHROUGHFACILITY) * Oracle * Creating Datasets by using SAS/SQL * Updation , Modification , Deletion , Unions , Joins etc. Module: 3 Duration: 1 Month SAS/STAT * Introduction to Statistics * Importance of STAT to Lifesciences * Proc freq ,Proc rank , Proc corr ,Proc z-test , Proc t-test , Proc mean * Proc regg ,Proc anova , Proc GLM etc SAS/QC * Introduction to clinical trails * Cleaning of clinical trail data * Documentation , SAP introduction , Importance of Biostatistics * ICH and GCP guidelines , Clinical Data Management System(CDMS) * Importance of SAS for Regulatory Affairs * Analysis of Clinical trails results SAS/ETL * Connecting to Warehouse Administrator * Connecting to Oracle Database SAS/GENETICS Note: Projects on Functional and Techno-Functional Modules: (i) Those who are Register for all Three Modules will be given two live Projects (ii) Those who have already completed the SAS Course and are interested only in Projects will be charged Rs: 5000/- per Projects for the Duration of One Month. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY An insight into the Molecules that initiate, control and sustain our life is called the Science of Molecular Biology. From Mendel's observation of how Characters were inherited and segregated in the Pea Plant to the unraveling of the Genome of man and a number of Other Organisms we have traveled a long way. Molecular Biology and its related fields like Cloning and Genetic Recombination, have vested with us the power to combine and exploit the genetic potential of many organisms for the benefit of mankind. The present Course on these Molecules is designed to give a hands on experience to the students in acquainting themselves with the Basic and Advanced techniques in the field. Module 1: Basic Techniques: Duration: 20 Days * Isolation of Genomic DNA from Different Sources * Isolation of Plasmid DNA * Competent Cell Preparation * Genetic Transformation * Isolation of RNA * SDS-PAGE * Characterization of DNA/RNA by agarose Gel Electrophoresis Module 2: Advanced Techniques: Duration: 20 Days * Primer designing * Restriction Digestion * PCR * Gene Cloning * Screening of Cloned Gene * DNA Fingerprinting * Genome Analysis * Southern Blotting MICRO BIOLOGY Microbes today have become an intrinsic part of human progress. They are used industrially in the manufacture of foods, drugs, vaccines, insecticides, enzymes, hormones and other useful biological products. These versatile unicellular organisms can be coaxed to produce just about anything that there is a gene for through Genetic Engineering and have become the forerunners in the Biotechnology revolution of modern age. Following courses at different levels are designed to train students in using the microbes... Module 1 : BASIC TECHNIQUES IN MICROBIOLOGY Duration: 20 Days * Sterilization Techniques * Preparation of Media * Isolation of Microorganisms from different Sources * Identification and Characterization of some important microbes * Preservartion and Maintenance of Microbial cultures * Studies on the Growth Kinetics of Bacteria * Studies on Microbial Antibiosis * One Step Growth of Bacteriphages Module 2 : ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN MICROBIOLOGY Duration: 20 Days * Isolation of industrially important bacteria * Development of new strains by Mutations * Analysis of Extracellular Enzymes from Bacteria * Isolation of Genomic DNA from Bacteria * Restriction Digestion * Transformation and Selection of Tranformants * Conjugation in Bacteria * Chromatography Techniques Module 3: INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY INCLUDING R&D AND QUALITY CONTROL Duration: 20 Days * Isolation, Identification and Maintenance of Industrially important Microorganisms * Testing of Industrial products for Microbial Quality * Testing Chemicals for Carcinigenecity * Testing Water samples used for Food , Drug and Mineral Water Producing Industries. * Enzyme Immobilization IMMUNOLOGY Module 1 : BASIC TECHNIQUES IN IMMUNOLOGY Duration: 20 Days * Serological identification of unknown pathogen * Determination of antibody titre * Latex agglutination text * Rapid immunology diagnostic procedures for STDs * Radial immuno diffusion test Module 2 : ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN IMMUNOLOGY Duration: 20 Days * Febrile antibody test * Immunodiffusion * Counter current immunoelectrophoresis * Rocket immunoelectrophoresis * ELISA * Western blotting TISSUE CULTURE PLANT TISSUE CULTURE * Preparation of MS Medium * Callus induction from different explants * Shoot Induction * Root Induction * Micro propagation/Multiple shoot induction * Genetic Transformation using Agro bacterium * Hairy root culture * immobilization of Cells Address Prof: N.V .Naidu. M.S., Ph.D. Director of Studies, Global Institute of Biotechnology, 3-6-276/2, Above Mahesh Bank, Himayat Nagar, Hyderabad-29. www.globalbiotek.net e-mail :globalbiotek@gmail.com naidu111_2000@yahoo.com Contact No: Ph: 040-66621528 093910 05048