From paolo.romano from istge.it Fri Apr 3 10:15:25 2009 From: paolo.romano from istge.it (Paolo Romano) Date: Fri Apr 3 11:26:41 2009 Subject: [Bionews] CFP: NETTAB 2009 on Collaborative Bioinformatics Research and Development (social networks, wiki, ...) Message-ID: <200904031515.n33FFRSr001958@clus2.istge.it> Apologies if you receive more copies. =========================== Announce and Preliminary Call for Papers NETTAB 2009 Workshop on "Technologies, Tools and Applications for Collaborative and Social Bioinformatics Research and Development" with a Special Session on: "Methods and Tools for RNA Structure and Functional Analysis" June 10-13, 2009 Department of Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy http://www.nettab.org/2009/ Submissions deadlines: - April 28, 2009: Oral communication submission - May 15, 2009: Posters submission Submissions must be short papers of around 3 pages or 12.000 characters long. Special Issues in peer-review journals on workshop's topics planned: post-workshop ad hoc Call for papers will be issued. RATIONALE Advent of Wide Area Networks (WAN) allowed the availability of distributed information and prompted the need for searching and retrieving this data (Network Information Retrieval tools, NIR), as well the development of unprecedented communications between users (Computer Mediated Communication tools, CMC). Initially, CMC was asynchronous and based on electronic mail and newsgroups. From email systems, mailing lists and newsletter were soon derived, while newsgroups generated, shortly after, electronic fora. Synchronous communication were introduced through the advent of chat services. On this line, current multimedia teleconference systems were then set up. Virtual reality was first introduced for educational purposes by means of MUD (Multi-users Domain) systems, and especially by means of MOO (MUD Object-oriented). This line produced current virtual reality environment, like the emerging Second Life system. Life Sciences researchers largely took profit from CMC tools. The bionet newsgroups hierarchy remains one of the most famous and useful CMC system supporting life science research. Many mailing lists that were born in that context are still used. The development of open source software was largely made possible by the possibility of exchanging, in an effective way, knowledge, practices and skills among researchers. Web sites of communities of scientists were set up and often constituted the base for a real collaborative development and research. The most recent developments of collaborative development tools are impressive. Researchers can now collaboratively develop software (open source systems), discuss and compare development strategies (social networks), write documents (google docs, wiki systems), build knowledge bases. So, it may now be the time for presenting current technologies, tools and applications for collaborative work and for discussing perspectives of their utilization in support of Bioinformatics. For these reasons, NETTAB 2009 will be devoted to "Technologies, Tools and Applications for Collaborative and Social Bioinformatics Research and Development". Moreover, there will be a special session on "Methods and Tools for RNA Structure and Functional Analysis". The transcription of almost all genomes generates a great number of coding and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Although RNA is central to the synthesis of proteins, it is not only a messenger of genetic information: many cellular functions depend on ncRNAs, which exert their functions by their sequence and structure. In particular, small silencing RNAs (miRNAs, siRNAs and piRNAs) play a crucial role in many physiological processes and their aberrant expression is a common feature of human diseases including cancer. Models and tools able to increase our understanding of RNAs functions and their involvement in diseases may lead to the design of new RNA-based therapeutics. The RNA community is also taking advantage of collaborative research tools such as Wikis and other virtual environments. The RNA WikiProject contains now over 600 articles describing families of noncoding RNAs based on the Rfam database, and invite the community to update, edit, and correct those articles. Therefore, the NETTAB 2009 special session will focus on collaborative research project, computational methods and tools for the analysis of RNA structures and functions, with a special emphasis on ncRNAs. KEYNOTE SPEAKER # Alex Bateman Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hinxton, Cambridge, UK # Tim Clark Director of Informatics, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease Neurology Research Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA # Duncan Hull School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK # Michael Levitt Stanford University, USA # Debora Marks Systems Biology Department, Harvard Medical School Boston, USA TOPICS - Collaborative Web sites (bioinformatics.org, biojava, bioperl, ) - Communities of Practices (CoPs) Scientific practices in scientific communities Automatic detection / gathering / modelling of scientific practices Implementations of CoPs - Social networking (myExperiment, Annotea, myScience) Social Bookmarking Semantic Document Markup Relationships mining from literature - Open Source development Sharing of data models, libraries, interfaces - Social software for collaborative documentation development Wikis, blogs, google docs Knowledge Wikis Social-software-mediated collaborative scientific research Social-software-mediated collaborative tools' development Knowledge base collaborative development Ontologies collaborative development - Education and training tools E-learning Virtual environments Methods and Tools for RNA Structure and Functional Analysis - RNA structure prediction - Collaborative studies of RNAs - ncRNAs functional analysis and classification - miRNAs and networks - Genome-wide functional studies - Identification of ncRNAs - Databases of ncRNAs and miRNA targets - miRNA targets prediction - Synthetic miRNA and siRNA design - Gene expression analysis - Analysis of viral RNAs - RNAi therapeutics - Identification of ncRNAs biomarkers - RNA-protein interaction prediction DEADLINES Submissions for both oral communications and posters must be short papers of around THREE A4 pages or 12.000 characters long. - April 28, 2009: Oral communication submission Acceptation communication: May 12, 2009 - May 15, 2009: Posters submission - May 17, 2009: Early registration - June 10-13, 2009: Tutorials and Workshop Calls for SPECIAL ISSUES We plan to launch Calls for Special Issues on the themes of the workshop in peer-review journals with associated Impact factor around July for submission in September 2009. Best regards. Paolo Romano on behalf of NETTAB 2009 Chairs Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@istge.it) Bioinformatics National Cancer Research Institute (IST) Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, I-16132, Genova, Italy Tel: +39-010-5737-288 Fax: +39-010-5737-295 AIUTACI AD AIUTARE: Il tuo 5 per MILLE a sostegno della nostra RICERCA. Come fare: Nella prossima dichiarazione dei redditi metti la firma nell'apposito riquadro del 5 per mille, scrivendo anche il codice fiscale dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro di Genova : c.f. 80 100 850 108 Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro L.go R. Benzi, 10 -16132 Genova http://www.istge.it From sticher from bioc.uzh.ch Mon Apr 6 10:20:13 2009 From: sticher from bioc.uzh.ch (Patrick Sticher) Date: Mon Apr 6 11:47:54 2009 Subject: [Bionews] 7th International NCCR Symposium on New Trends in Structural Biology Message-ID: <49DA1DAD.3020906@bioc.uzh.ch> Dear colleagues, please be informed that the registration slot for the 7th International NCCR Symposium on New Trends in Structural Biology 7 + 8 September 2009, ETH Z?rich, Lecture Hall HG E7, Z?rich, Switzerland is now open. Online registration is possible directly from the symposium website: www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/symposium2009 where you will also find further information about this event. Confirmed plenary lecturer to date: Pietro de Camilli, Arthur Horwich, Brian Kobilka, Harry Noller, Anna Marie Pyle, David Wemmer, Masasuke Yoshida Please do not hesitate to contact me anytime if you need further information (sticher@bioc.uzh.ch). With best regards, Patrick Sticher The NCCR Structural Biology is a research initiative of the Swiss Science Foundation. Its research encompasses the fields of recombinant protein technologies, macromolecular structure determination and computational biomolecular sciences with a special focus on membrane proteins and supramolecular assemblies/interactions. 19 research groups from Swiss Universities and Research Institutions participate in this network. www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/ _________________________________ Dr. Patrick Sticher Moser NCCR Scientific Officer Institute of Biochemistry University of Z?rich Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH - 8057 Z?rich Phone +41 / (0)44 / 635 54 84 Fax +41 / (0)44 / 635 59 08 -- _________________________________ Visit the NCCR on the Internet www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch Dr. Patrick Sticher Moser NCCR Scientific Officer Institute of Biochemistry University of Z?rich Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH - 8057 Z?rich Phone +41 / (0)44 / 635 54 84 Fax +41 / (0)44 / 635 59 08 Mail sticher@bioc.uzh.ch From mourad12345678 from yahoo.com Mon Apr 6 19:20:09 2009 From: mourad12345678 from yahoo.com (Mourad Elloumi) Date: Tue Apr 7 10:45:00 2009 Subject: [Bionews] BIOKDD'09 : Extended Deadline, April 20 Message-ID: <73953.17190.qm@web31508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> CALL FOR PAPERS Higher School of Sciences and Technologies of Tunis (Tunisia) And Faculty of Applied Sciences, Bucharest (Romania) Organize Biological Knowledge Discovery from Databases (BIOKDD'09) Workshop held in parallel with 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'09) www.dexa.org University of Linz, Austria August 31 - September 4, 2009 With the development of Biology during the last decades, we are witnessing an exponential growth of both the volume and the complexity of biological databases. For example, the Human Genome Project provided the sequence of the 3 billion DNA bases that constitute the human genome. And, consequently, we are provided too with the sequences of about 100,000 proteins. Therefore, we are entering the post-genomic era : After having focused so much efforts on the accumulation of biological data in databases, we have now to focus as much efforts, and even more, on the analysis of these data. Analyzing this huge volume of biological data stored in databases is a challenging task because, not only, of its complexity and its multiple numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological structural and evolutionary mechanisms. Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD) is a response to these new trends. You are invited to submit a draft paper in PDF format before April 20, 2009 via DEXA'09 ConfDriver. Papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE format www.ieee.org/ web/publications /authors/ transjnl/ index.html All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of DEXA'09 Workshops with IEEE CSP. One of the authors of an accepted paper must register to DEXA'09 conference and present the paper at BIOKDD'09 workshop. Program Committee: Mourad Elloumi, University of Tunis, Tunisia, (PC Chair) Cristian Toma, Politehnica University, Bucharest, Romania (PC Co-Chair) Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France Beatrice Duval, University of Angers, France Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui. Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tanger, Morocco El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Sciences and Techniques of Lille, France Xiangchao Gan, University of Oxford, UK Kathleen Steinhofel, King's College London, UK Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Important Dates: Submission of Full Papers: April 20, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: May 10, 2009 Camera-ready Copies: May 31, 2009 From manolia from stanford.edu Thu Apr 9 00:25:17 2009 From: manolia from stanford.edu (Manolia Margaris) Date: Thu Apr 9 15:55:19 2009 Subject: [Bionews] ISBMR 9th Course: Biophysics and Structure, Erice-Sicily, 22 Jun-2 Jul '09 Message-ID: <54642b2e-b8c8-417c-bf4b-05d9c03dc389@k41g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> We like to bring to your attention the 9th Biophysics and Structure Course of the Int'l School of Biological Magnetic Resonance (ISBMR). We kindly ask you share this information with graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and other colleagues and interested individuals, particularly in the areas of Structural Biology, NMR, Biophysics, Crystallography, Computational Biology, and Biochemistry. Details follow: COURSE TITLE: ISBMR 9th Course: Biophysics and Structure WHEN: 22 June - 2 July 2009 WHERE: Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice-Sicily, Italy. URL: http://smrl.stanford.edu/erice2009/ Apply online: http://www.stanford.edu/~manolia/erice2009app.fb * COURSE FORMAT and PURPOSE: The format is an Advanced Study Institute (ASI). This course will provide an overview of physical and structural methods in biology and will present technologies related to pathogen detection and treatment using these methods. Both, basic principles and concrete examples will be presented in a long course format. It is an ideal course for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Please note that the structure of the course provides a great opportunity for young scientists to present their work. * TOPICS Include: Principles of NMR spectroscopy; Principles of X-ray diffraction; Single-molecule methods; Cryoelectron Microscopy; Molecular dynamics and other computational approaches; Mass spectrometry; Use of NMR data to calculate protein and nucleic acid structures; New RNA and protein NMR methods; Viral pathogens; Bacterial pathogens; Antivirals; Ribosome structure; Translational mechanism and antibiotics; New technologies to study proteins; Solid state NMR; Peptides as drugs; Membrane proteins as drug targets; Structure-based drug design in biotechnology; NMR and physical studies of pathogenic proteins; Coupling genomics and structural studies. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Applications are now accepted online: http://www.stanford.edu/~manolia/erice2009app.fb Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. From db60 from st-andrews.ac.uk Fri Apr 10 07:00:13 2009 From: db60 from st-andrews.ac.uk (Daniel Barker) Date: Fri Apr 10 10:14:03 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Course: St Andrews, Scotland, Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics, 15-18 August 2009 Message-ID: The University of St Andrews and the Scottish Bioinformatics Forum will be hosting: Summer School - Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics Start Date: 15th August 2009, 09:00 am End Date: 18th August 2009 Location: The University of St Andrews, Scotland http://www.genome-bioinformatics.org Confirmed Speakers: Prof Ziheng Yang FRS, University College London, UK Prof Neil Hall, University of Liverpool, UK Dr Zemin Ning, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK Dr David Martin, University of Dundee, UK Prof Geoff Barton, University of Dundee, UK Dr Daniel Barker, University of St Andrews, UK Prof Ian Korf, UC Davis Genome Center, USA Prof Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Dr Chris Janssen, SBF and University of Glasgow, UK Dr David Ferrier, University of St Andrews, UK The summer school on bioinformatics and comparative genomics will address practical bioinformatics for sequence analysis and comparative genomics for use in biological and biomedical research. Internationally renowned invited speakers will discuss current challenges, applications, and future outlook in the field. The school will consist of a series of lectures, seminars and practical classes, allowing participants both insight into theory and the opportunity to learn practical skills in data analysis and interpretation. Registration for the summer school includes attendance at a one-day international conference on 18th August, "Comparative Genomics". Four nights of accommodation (14th-17th August) are optionally available on registration. Full details and registration please see: http://www.genome-bioinformatics.org We look forward to seeing you in August. Best regards, Daniel -- Daniel Barker http://bio.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/db60.htm The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532 From gws from ncifcrf.gov Thu Apr 16 09:13:15 2009 From: gws from ncifcrf.gov (Gary Smythers) Date: Thu Apr 16 10:44:06 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Announcement: GenPept 171.0 available Message-ID: <20090416141315.E4D8EA4001@bio1.ncifcrf.gov> This is to announce the availability of release 170.1 of the GenPept(R) (GenBank Gene Products) Database. GenPept is provided in a format similar to that formerly distributed by GenBank(R) under the administration of Intelligenetics Inc. This GenPept release IS _NOT_ AN OFFICIAL RELEASE FROM THE NCBI-GENBANK, but an attempt to provide a data file format compatible with existing software products. This data format is suitable as an input data file for the GCG program genbanktogcg -genpept. Compatibility with other software has not been tested. Site: ftp.ncifcrf.gov Directory: pub/genpept Files: gprel.txt.gz, gpdat.seq.gz, gpdat.fasta.gz Directory: pub/genpept/divisions Files: 1 file for each GenBank file Directory: pub/genpept/updates (daily, cumulative) Files: gpseq_updates.dat.gz Rel. Date: 15-Apr-2009 If you have questions or comments concerning this data, or you experience any difficulty in downloading the data via ftp, please contact: Gary Smythers gws@ncifcrf.gov 301-846-5778 or Bob Stephens bobs@ncifcrf.gov ================================================================ GenPept (R) and GenBank (R) are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the GenBank Gene Products and the GenBank Genetic Sequence Data Banks. From shuly from cshl.edu Sun Apr 19 17:08:31 2009 From: shuly from cshl.edu (Shuly Avraham) Date: Sun Apr 19 19:04:46 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Plant Ontology Database #0409 Release Message-ID: <39B39A9A-F5F2-46AE-B76E-2235DE7E40D4@cshl.edu> Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) is excited to announce the release #0409 (April 2009) of the Plant Ontology Database. In this release, we bring you 26625 gene annotations from TAIR, Gramene, SGN and MaizeGDB, 8558 QTL annotations from Gramene, 9832 germplasm associations from SGN, MaizeGDB and NASC. The following number of annotations were added for the first time: 16016 gene annotations from TAIR, 3 gene annotations from Gramene, 2 gene annotations from SGN and 3928 germplasm annotations from MaizeGDB. For genes curated by TAIR and SGN, you may also find links to their Gene Ontology (GO) pages through PO browser. The new ontology files and the database dump are available for download. To submit plant ontology term requests, we encourage researchers to use SourceForge PO tracker. The Plant Ontology Consortium web: http:www.plantontology.org e-mail: po-dev at plantontology.org The project is funded by National Science Foundation, USA, (Grant No. DBI-0703908) From allan.tucker from brunel.ac.uk Mon Apr 27 08:32:55 2009 From: allan.tucker from brunel.ac.uk (allan tucker (brunel)) Date: Mon Apr 27 11:46:21 2009 Subject: [Bionews] {Disarmed} Systems Biology Symposium 25 - 26 June at Brunel University Message-ID: <99CEB8928E3C436F928246BF4FD0346A@disc.stjohns.brunel.ac.uk> Symposium on Biological and Chemical Informatics for Health: Foundations for Systems Biology Brunel University, West London, UK 25-26 June 2009 Find out more and register for this free event here http://bcih-sb.brunel.ac.uk Integration of biological and chemical informatics presents a real opportunity to address some of the most exciting and challenging issues posed by systems biology. These diverse disciplines, and their interaction, play a crucial role in addressing key issues in drug design and discovery, environmental sustainability, health and disease processes, and disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Join us for a two day symposium sponsored by the BBSRC and Brunel University, where influential leaders in bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, systems biology and health, will present the latest developments that are helping to shape this interdisciplinary field. This symposium is open to those working in the field, including academics, researchers, students and industry and will provide an excellent environment for delegates to participate in networking activities and developing collaborative, interdisciplinary research partnerships. We are delighted that the following have already agreed to speak at the event: Bioinformatics Janet Thornton, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute Marco Ramoni, Director of Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, Harvard Medical School Christine Orengo, Professor of Bioinformatics, University College London Health Sally Davies, Director General of Research and Development and Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health and NHS Chemoinformatics Peter Willett, Professor of Information Science, Sheffield University Robert Glen, Director of Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics, Cambridge University Peter Johnson, Professor of Computational Chemistry, Leeds University Systems Biology Tom Kirkwood, Director of the Newcastle Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition Simon Gaskell, Vice-President for Research, Manchester University Chris Rawlings, Head of Department of Biomathematics and Bioinformatics, Rothamsted Research, BBSRC David Gilbert, Head of School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Brunel University Colin Miles, Head of Systems Biology, BBSRC Stephen Muggleton, Director of Modelling, Centre for Integrative Systems Biology at Imperial College Peter Bramley, Head of School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway London For more details and free registration see: http://bcih-sb.brunel.ac.uk From petre from iaria.org Mon Apr 6 12:53:30 2009 From: petre from iaria.org (Petre Dini) Date: Wed Sep 30 17:17:42 2009 Subject: [Bionews] (no subject) Message-ID: <49DA418F.4050701@iaria.org> Invitation, We are in the process of inviting the program committee members for the BioSciencesWorld 2009, including *BIOTECHNO 2009, The Second International Conference on Advances in Biotechnologies** * *http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOTECHNO09.html* * * *BIOINFO 2009, The First International Conference on Advances in Bioinformatics and Applications** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOINFO09.html * * *BIOSYSCOM 2009, The First International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology and Microbiology** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOSYSCOM09.html * * *BIOGREEN 2009, The First International Conference on Advances in Renewable and Sustainable Energies** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOGREEN09.html * * *BIODIV 2009, The First International Conference on Biodiversity and Invasion Control** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIODIV09.html *BIOENVIRONMENT 2009, The First International Conference on Environmental Change Awareness** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOENVIRONMENT09.html We would greatly appreciate you accept our invitation to join one or more technical program committees. BioSciencesWorld 2009 is scheduled in Cancun, November 15-20, 2009. We count on program committee members to submit papers (hopefully attend), help reviewing 2-3 papers, recommending new program committee members, suggesting topics improvements, and disseminating the Call for Papers. Please reply to the invitation to petre@iaria.org with - your most up to date affiliation and - 1-2 conferences, and your topics of interest, e.g., BIOINFO/Chemoinformatics, BIODIV/Bioinvasion We would like to post the committee as soon as possible and start distributing the Call for Papers. Thanks for your potential help, IARIA Committees Board Chair --------------------------- Prof. Dr. Petre Dini --------------------------- From petre from iaria.org Mon Apr 6 13:22:09 2009 From: petre from iaria.org (Petre Dini) Date: Wed Sep 30 17:17:47 2009 Subject: [Bionews] (no subject) Message-ID: <49DA4847.1020700@iaria.org> Invitation, We are in the process of inviting the program committee members for the BioSciencesWorld 2009, including *BIOTECHNO 2009, The Second International Conference on Advances in Biotechnologies** * *http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOTECHNO09.html* * * *BIOINFO 2009, The First International Conference on Advances in Bioinformatics and Applications** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOINFO09.html * * *BIOSYSCOM 2009, The First International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology and Microbiology** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOSYSCOM09.html * * *BIOGREEN 2009, The First International Conference on Advances in Renewable and Sustainable Energies** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOGREEN09.html * * *BIODIV 2009, The First International Conference on Biodiversity and Invasion Control** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIODIV09.html *BIOENVIRONMENT 2009, The First International Conference on Environmental Change Awareness** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOENVIRONMENT09.html We would greatly appreciate you accept our invitation to join one or more technical program committees. BioSciencesWorld 2009 is scheduled in Cancun, November 15-20, 2009. We count on program committee members to submit papers (hopefully attend), help reviewing 2-3 papers, recommending new program committee members, suggesting topics improvements, and disseminating the Call for Papers. Please reply to the invitation to petre@iaria.org with - your most up to date affiliation and - 1-2 conferences, and your topics of interest, e.g., BIOINFO/Chemoinformatics, BIODIV/Bioinvasion We would like to post the committee as soon as possible and start distributing the Call for Papers. Thanks for your potential help, IARIA Committees Board Chair --------------------------- Prof. Dr. Petre Dini --------------------------- From petre from iaria.org Fri Apr 10 10:52:53 2009 From: petre from iaria.org (Petre Dini) Date: Wed Sep 30 17:17:57 2009 Subject: [Bionews] (no subject) Message-ID: <49DF6A68.2030407@iaria.org> Invitation, We are in the process of inviting the program committee members for the BioSciencesWorld 2009, including *BIOTECHNO 2009, The Second International Conference on Advances in Biotechnologies** * *http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOTECHNO09.html* * * *BIOINFO 2009, The First International Conference on Advances in Bioinformatics and Applications** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOINFO09.html * * *BIOSYSCOM 2009, The First International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology and Microbiology** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOSYSCOM09.html * * *BIOGREEN 2009, The First International Conference on Advances in Renewable and Sustainable Energies** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOGREEN09.html * * *BIODIV 2009, The First International Conference on Biodiversity and Invasion Control** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIODIV09.html *BIOENVIRONMENT 2009, The First International Conference on Environmental Change Awareness** * http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/BIOENVIRONMENT09.html We would greatly appreciate you accept our invitation to join one or more technical program committees. BioSciencesWorld 2009 is scheduled in Cancun, November 15-20, 2009. We count on program committee members to submit papers (hopefully attend), help reviewing 2-3 papers, recommending new program committee members, suggesting topics improvements, and disseminating the Call for Papers. Please reply to the invitation to petre@iaria.org with - your most up to date affiliation and - 1-2 conferences, and your topics of interest, e.g., BIOINFO/Chemoinformatics, BIODIV/Bioinvasion We would like to post the committee as soon as possible and start distributing the Call for Papers. Thanks for your potential help, IARIA Committees Board Chair --------------------------- Prof. Dr. Petre Dini ---------------------------