Workshops
2003
New
in vivo imaging modalities for Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
and Physiology
Workshop
organisers:
Bertrand Tavitian: INSERM, Orsay,
France
Clemens
Lowik:
Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital Leiden, The
Netherlands
This
workshop has 4 main objectives :
- to
present recent breakthroughs in the domain of in vivo
imaging and give to specialists and laboratory scientists
from all disciplines the most precise information regarding
the tools available for their specific research field.
- to
provide an overview of the lastest development tools in
the field of physiology, cellular and molecular biology
which can be easily integrated to the imaging technics.
This will concern new tracers derived from combinatorial
chemistry or genetic engineering, as well as animal models.
- to
present actual issues, such as gene therapy, drug development
or developmental biology, which have or will benefit greatly
from molecular imaging techniques.
- to
promote dicussions amongst laboratories of different backgrounds
on the potential interaction between physics, chemistry
and biology for biomedical research.
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Date
and Venue: May 31st- June 4th: Roscoff, France.
Regulatory
and functional RNAs: computational, genomic and structural
approaches
Workshop
organisers:
Elena Rivas: Washington U., St.
Louis, USA.
Eric Westhof: Universitie Louis
Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
This
workshop intends to bring together a group of theoreticians
and computational scientists working on problems related to
the computational analysis of functional and regulatory RNAs.
Some
of the open problems in the field which will be discussed
are:
- RNA
gene finding and genome annotation
- RNA
structure
- Homology
searches
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Date
and Venue: July 27th- August 8th: Benasque Center for
Science, Benasque, Spain.
Microarray
data: untapped powers and hidden weaknesses
Workshop
organisers:
Martin Kuiper: Flemish Institute
of Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium.
Paul Van Hummelen: Flemish Institute
of Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium.
Yves Moreau: Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium.
Integrated
multidisciplinary research, involving a strong interaction
between technology, statistics and biology, is vital both
for supplementing genome data with functional genomics data,
and to translate genomic data into practical applications.
Such cooperation is essential to extend our knowledge of individual
gene function and to be able to construct the genetic networks
that make up the essential biological processes of life. Microarray
technology is a typical example of what such multidisciplinary
cooperation can deliver.
The
purpose of this workshop is to enhance the skill-base in Europe
for the implementation of transcription microarrays and to
strengthen subsequent analysis of microarray data. The quantity
and quality of functional genomics data is key to building
knowledge of genes and gene networks. This workshop will help
to disseminate new technological progress, protocols and standardisation
issues.
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Date
and Venue: Sept 8th - 9th: Faculty Club, Leuven, Belgium.
Data
integration in functional genomics and proteomics: application
to biological pathways
Workshop
organisers:
Pierre-Alain Binz:
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Switzerland.
Paul van der Vet: Center for
Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT), University of
Twente, Netherlands.
Henning Hermjakob: European Bioinformatics
Institute (EBI), Hinxton, UK.
The
workshop will bring together scientists and bioinformaticians,
who are involved in major multidisciplinary projects. We will
aim to understand the current issues related with the design
and implementation of biological pathways databases.
Topics
will include:
- Current
status of the use of experimental information to create
biological pathways databases in existing consortia
- Design,
creation and formalisation of biological pathways databases
- Relation
and interoperability of such databases to each other and
with other external databases (such as knowledgebases, protein
sequence databases, protein families databases, genomic
sequences databases, structures databases, functional information
containing databases, etc.)
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Date
and venue: September
22nd - 24th:
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland.
Trends
in Nucleic Acid based Biosensors
Workshops
organisers:
Marco Mascini: University of
Florence, Italy
Ulf Landegren: University of
Uppsala, Sweden
Ettore Luzi: University of Florence,
Italy
Maria Minunni: University of
Florence, Italy
The
objectives of this workshop are:
Advanced
data mining and visualisation approaches to systems biology.
Workshop
organisers:
Francisco Azuaje: University
of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern
Ireland, UK.
Joaquin Dopazo: Spanish National
Cancer Centre, Madrid, Spain.
The
workshop will focus on two major themes.
- Theme
1. Current challenges and opportunities in biological pattern
discovery. It aims to address key limitations exhibited
by existing data mining approaches to systems biology, and
to discuss requirements for the development of an advanced
generation of techniques and applications.
- Theme
2. Current challenges and opportunities in biological information
visualisation. It covers the problems of displaying data
mining results, navigating and browsing biological databases,
and representing information extraction/retrieval outcomes
based on multiple information resources, with special emphasis
on a systemic scale view.
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Date
and Venue: November 13 - 15th: Ulster, Northern Ireland
RNAi:
the technology to revolutionise functional genomic research:
What are the limitations?
Workshop
organisers:
Thomas F. Meyer: MPI for
Infection Biology, Berlin
Thomas
Rudel:
MPI for Infection Biology, Berlin
Hans Prydz: Biotechnology Centre
of Oslo, Oslo
Joachim W. Engels: Institut für
Organische Chemie, Goethe
Universität Frankfurt am Main
- The
major aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers
from different lines of RNA interference research in order
to fathom the impact of the new developments on the practical
aspects of the RNAi technology. Therefore it is important
to learn about the newest findings on the basic mechanisms
of RNAi and variations thereof found in different organisms
as well as about novel applications in therapy. Further,
we will encourage the participants to not only present their
published, successful work but also unsuccessful approaches
that might be very helpful for the planning of future research
programmes.
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Date
and Venue: November
20th-22nd, 2003: Berlin, Germany
SNPs
analysis: tools and applications
Workshop
organisers:
Javier Benítez: Human
Genetic Department; Spanish National Cancer
Center (CNIO).
Mercedes Robledo: Human Genetic
Department; CNIO.
Joaquin Dopazo: Bioinformatics
Unit, CNIO.
The main purpose of this workshop is to analyze different
methodological approaches in the study of SNPs, data analysis
methods and evolution and diagnostic applications.
Objectives
are:
-
To bring together European experts who are working in or
have started working in the field of SNPs data analysis,
favouring young researches.
- to
foster collaboration
among European scientists working in this area.
- to
provide a forum for scientists to discuss the progress in
this rapidly evolving field.
- to
establish a strong European collaborative network.
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Date
and Venue: November 28th - 29th
:
Madrid, Spain.
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