From ipmalac from gmail.com Tue May 6 11:00:13 2008 From: ipmalac from gmail.com (Instituto Portugues Malacologia) Date: Tue May 6 13:11:55 2008 Subject: [Bionews] European Congress of Malacology 2008 In-Reply-To: <48207bee.05a4100a.4bf1.573dSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> References: <48207bee.05a4100a.4bf1.573dSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> Message-ID: <7430f8e40805060900i222136a8i147f07ab2fe2a42@mail.gmail.com> *Apologies for cross-posting.* * ** * **** Coming soon **** * * **EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF MALACOLOGY** *2=966 September 2008, Ponta Delgada, S=E3o Miguel Island (Azores, Portugal= )* * * The "5th Congress of the European Malacological Societies (CEMS)", will be held at Ponta Delgada, S=E3o Miguel Island (Azores, Portugal) on the 2=966 September 2008. We are pleased to announce the participation of three prime international keynote speakers at the meeting: *David Reid (Natural History Museum, London, UK)* Islands: engines or endpoints of marine speciation? *Dick Neves (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, US)* Recovery of Endangered Mollusks in the U.S.A.: More than Just a Shell Game. *Robert Cameron (**University of Sheffield**, UK**)*** Time, space and very slow motion: patterns in the diversity of snails. Travel grants are available for students presenting their work at the meeting. *Deadline for abstract submission*: 15 May. *Deadline for registration*: 15 June. We look forward to meet you all in the Azores! On the behalf of the organizing committee. The Portuguese Malacological Institute (IPM) and the University of the Azores (UAc) * *www.euromalac2008.org/ euromalac2008@gmail.com** From rrwagner from faw.at Sat May 17 07:40:39 2008 From: rrwagner from faw.at (Prof. Roland Wagner) Date: Sat May 17 13:35:07 2008 Subject: [Bionews] BIRD 08: Call for participants Message-ID: <482ED247.4010903@faw.at> Call for participants: BIRD'08 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development www.birdconf.org Technical University of Vienna, Austria July 7-9, 2008 Best regards Roland Wagner -- Univ. Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner Johannes Kepler Universit?t Linz A-4040 Linz Austria Europe Tel.: +43 676 84673210 Fax: +43 732 24689308 rrwagner@faw.at Director of the Institute of Applied Knowledgeprocessing (FAW) sec1: Monika Neubauer Tel.: +43 676 84673212 Fax.:+43 732 2468 9308 mneubauer@faw.uni-linz.ac.at http://www.faw.at http://www.dexa.org Director of the Institute "integriert studieren" (IS) sec2: Barbara Arrer Tel: +43 732 2468 9232 Fax:+43 732 2468 9322 barbara.arrer@jku.at http://www.integriert-studieren.jku.at http://www.icchp.org Director of FAW Software Engineering gem. GmbH Softwarepark 35 A-4232 Hagenberg Austria Europe FN 261883y (Landesgericht Linz) Tel.: ++43 676 84673210 rrwagner@faw.at sec3.: Helene Gieber Tel: ++43 7236 3343 760 Fax: ++43 7236 3343 782 hgieber@faw.at http://www.faw.at http://www.softwarepark.at From Ron_Milo from hms.harvard.edu Wed May 28 14:53:34 2008 From: Ron_Milo from hms.harvard.edu (Milo, Ron) Date: Wed May 28 19:12:17 2008 Subject: [Bionews] item suggestion Message-ID: <76245E615596D444A2D268A2EB3CACD5D4D7B1@MAILSERVER01.MED.HARVARD.EDU> Hi, I am a fellow at the systems biology department in Harvard. I thought the following item might be of interest even to your mailing list. Best, Ron BioNumbers - the database of useful biological numbers Dear all, I have a non-standard post, but one that will hopefully be of interest to this community. A group of us in the systems biology department at Harvard Medical have built a database to store useful biological numbers ( www.bionumbers.org ), such as cell and organelle sizes, diffusion coefficients, protein concentrations, and much more ranging from molecular biology to physiology and ecology. We built the database because of a common realization of how many hours it can take to find even the most trivial numbers in the biological literature. And then once the number is found, where to store the information for future use? Bionumbers is more permanent and more searchable than post-it notes. The site is meant to rapidly connect you to literature sources - a sort of Pubmed for numbers, and provide wiki-like to comment on numbers as well as contribute new numbers. Please check out our database and maybe even enter some numbers you would like to keep track of - all database users will benefit from your entry. BioNumbers is a long-term project and will be continually improved for the foreseeable future. Any suggestions to make the database more useful are very welcome ( bionumbers@gmail.com ).