From mcdevitt from ibb.gatech.edu Wed Nov 4 16:21:19 2009 From: mcdevitt from ibb.gatech.edu (Megan McDevitt) Date: Thu Nov 5 12:24:22 2009 Subject: [Bionews] International Conference - Genome Biology and Bioinformatics Message-ID: The program of the conference features talks of many leading experts in the field Visit the speakers page of the website [http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2009/speakers_2009.php] Thanks to financial support from a larger group of sponsors we are happy to announce that the registration fee is reduced to $20 student/postdoc; $50 - academic; $100 - industry; We hope to see you soon in the Georgia Tech Ferst Center for the Arts . Visit the website. [http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2009/] November 12 (starting at 5pm) Dr. Jeffrey Bennetzen, Member of National Academy of Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA The Hyperevolution of Artifacts and Realities in the Structure and Function of Higher Plant Genomes Dr. Jian Ma, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA Unraveling the Ancestral Mammalian Genome Yields Insights into the Human Genome Dr. Igor Jouline (Zhulin), University of Tennessee - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA Molecular Evolution of a Complex Signal Transduction System in Prokaryotes Dr. Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard University, Boston , MA, USA Large Scale Genomic Data Mining Dr. Boris Lenhard, University of Bergen, Norway Long-, Short- and Mid-Range Gene Regulation: Lessons from Genome -Wide Patterns of Sequence Conservation and Transcription Factor Binding Inaugural Margaret O. Dayhoff lecture Dr. David Lipman, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA Margaret Dayhoff and Molecular Evolution in the 21st Century Dr. Joanna Masel, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA The Origin of New Coding Sequences Dr. Nick Grishin, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA Evolutionary Classification of Protein Structures Dr. Eugene Koonin, NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA Systems Biology and the Prospects of a Post-Modern Evolutionary Synthesis Dr. Nikos Kyrpides, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA The Future of Microbial Genomics Dr. Andrei Osterman, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA USA Integrated Genomic Reconstruction of Metabolic and Regulatory Networks in Bacteria November 14 Dr. Pierre Rouze, Gent University, Gent, Belgium >From Protists to Plants, Fungi and Animals: Eukaryote Genomes Are Not Born Equal Dr. Jason Miller, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA Studies of the Human Microbiome Dr. Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA Gene Finding in the Era of Next Generation Sequencing Dr. John Reinitz, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA When Two Plus Two Doesn't Equal Four: Modeling Non-Modular Enhancer Behavior in the Eve Promoter Dr. Yael Mandel -Gutfreund, Technion, Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Deciphering the Role of Alternative Splicing in Modulating the Human Gene Regulatory Network Dr. Andrey Mironov, Moscow State University, Russia Conserved Intronic RNA Secondary Structures Dr. Gill Bejerano, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Genomics and the Evolution of Human-Specific Traits Dr. King Jordan, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA MIR Elements Provide Chromatin Boundaries to the Human Genome Dr. Vineet Bafna, University of California at San Diego, USA Proteogenomics Conference ends at 9pm, November 14 Visit the Website [http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2009] Questions? Contact Megan McDevitt, Event Manager This email was sent to bionews@net.bio.net. You can instantly unsubscribe from these emails by clicking here http://institutebioengineeringbiosciences.createsend.com/t/r/u/hdklhu/jltkklyuj/. From drvinod from gmail.com Sat Nov 14 05:15:24 2009 From: drvinod from gmail.com (stumbleupon) Date: Sat Nov 14 13:45:56 2009 Subject: [Bionews] OSDD Connect to Decode Programme is Open for Registrations Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, OSDD Launches the "Connect to Decode" 2010 Initiative to re-annotate the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome. Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Project in its quest towards conquest of Tuberculosis, is launching a massive initiative to further the understanding of the biology of the causative organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The objective is to accelerate the discovery of novel drugs for TB, a disease neglected by Pharmaceutical enterprises. Though Mtb was sequenced a decade back, the standard databases have not annotated in real biological processes, more than 1000 of the near 4000 genes encoded by the organism. This is symptomatic of the problem of neglected diseases of the poor. OSDD is taking up the challenge of annotating all possible genes in Mtb and hopes that your Institution would join this massive effort. The project requires a faculty coordinator and student contributors from the college. For students this would be their summer project, the successful completion of which would fetch them a certificate from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). All the projects are managed by experts in the field. For the faculty coordinators, it is an opportunity to interact with leading scientists working in this field. Since the project has great significance in the conquest of TB, we expect serious student involvement and competent faculty monitoring. The best coordinators, student contributors and the best college centers would receive awards. Prizes include Laptops, iPods, holidays etc. The project is scheduled between December ‘09 and March ’10. The best students and faculty would be invited for an international conference on TB in April ’10. If interested, you are requested to go through the programme website at https://sites.google.com/a/osdd.net/osdd-connect-2-decode-2010/home Please feel free to spread the word and forward this to others who might be interested in participating. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr Vinod Scaria Scientist G N Ramachandran Knowledge Centre for Genome Informatics, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR), Mall Road, Delhi 110 007, India E-mail: vinods@igib.res.in Web: http://vinodscaria.rnabiology.org/ Mob: +91 9650466002 Lab Address: IGIB Extension Center at Naraina, A93-94 Naraina Inds Area, Phase 1,Naraina, New Delhi -110 028, Ph- +91-11-25895615, 45073677/88/99 | Fax no: +91-11-2766 7471 --------------------------------------------------------- What's New? Visit http://miracle.igib.res.in NOTE 'This message, including any attachments, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). 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