Conferences
2005
Using
Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction to Understand Protein Function
Conference
organisers:
David Liberles: University of
Bergen, Norway
Giorgio Matassi : University
of Paris VI, France
David Ardell: Uppsala University,
Sweden
With
an increasing number of fully sequenced genomes, comparative
genomes based upon evolutionary methodology has become increasingly
powerful and popular. An evolutionary method with increasing
practical and theoretical interests in ancestral sequence
reconstruction, which uses sequences from a constellation
of related proteins to recontruct their common ancestors at
points before metabolic or enzymatic functions changed. Such
ancestral sequences are synthesised in the laboratory to examine
biochemical innovation. Many of the pioneering researchers
using ancestral sequence reconstruction are in the United
States and Canada, but some expertise does exist in Europe.
A workshop to coordinate European expertise and initiate intra-European
and trans-Atlantic dialogue on methodology and applications
of this emerging sub-field promises to be valuable for academic
research and for technology transfer to European industry.
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Date
and Venue: 29-31 March, 2005; Kristineberg, Sweden
Epigenetics
and the Dynamic Genome
Conference
organisers:
Wolf Reik: The Babraham Institute,
Cambridge, UK
Peter
Fraser : The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
Gavin
Kelsey : The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
Anne
Corcoran : The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
In
the postgenomic area of functional genomics, epigenetics has
taken centre stage. The study of chromatin, DNA methylation,
and other mechanisms conferring heritable transcriptional
states, are fundamental to biology, its application, and medicine.
In particular, novel links and integrated approaches between
different epigenetic systems, between organisms, and between
chromatin and DNA metabolism (repair, replication, checkpoints)
are beginning to emerge, which are the focus of this international
conference. The conference brings together the key international
leaders in this exciting field in a central and congenial
setting just south of Cambridge.
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Date
and Venue: 30 June - 2 July, 2005; Babraham Institute,
Cambridge, UK
The
Biology of Phosphatases: The functional genomics of phosphatases
mini-symposium
Conference
organisers:
Denis Alexander: The Babraham
Institute, Cambridge, UK
Edgar
Da Cruz e Silva:
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Joaquin
Arino: Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
The
sheer number and complexity of phosphoproteins entails proteomic
and bioinformatics approaches for their analysis. It is the
intention of this Mini-Symposium to give an overview of the
latest technologies involved in these approaches and then
to show how functional genomics is being applied in various
contexts to the elucidation of phosphatase biology. This will
involve talks on structural and proteomic approaches to the
investigation of phosphatases.
The mini-symposium is embedded within the Europhosphatases
2005 Conference which takes place in Europe on alternate years.
The mini-symposium therefore provides an excellent opportunity
to promote inter-disciplinary interactions and to show how
information generated by proteomics and bioinformatics can
be related to the biology of phosphatases in physiological
systems.
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Date
and Venue: 10 - 14 July, 2005; Churchill College, Cambridge,
UK
First
European Farm Animal Functional Genomics Conference
Conference
organiser:
Dave
Burt:
Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland
The
European Farm Animal Functional Genomics Conference aims to
raise the level of awareness regarding functional genomics
in farm animal species. It incorporates an interdisciplinary
approach by bringing together experts in genomics and functional
genomics who are aware of the power of the technology and
are looking for interesting biological questions to address
with experts in whole animal biology, physiologists and pathologists
who may not be fully aware of the potential of functional
genomics.
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Date
and Venue: 18 - 20 September, 2005; Edinburgh, Scotland,
UK
Functional
Genomics and Disease
2nd ESF Functional Genomics Conference
Conference
organiser:
Kjetil
Taskén:
The Biotechnology Centre, University of Oslo, Norway
The
programme with more than 70 invited speakers will include
plenary lectures, symposia and workshops on:
• Neurogenomics and Disease
• Ageing
• Oncogenomics
• Inflammation and Immunity
• Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
• Emerging Infections and Poverty-Related Diseases
• Cardiovascular Disease and Angiogenesis
• Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine
• Molecular Phenotyping and Model Systems
• Epigenetic and Genomic Landscape
• Comparative Genomics
• Systems Biology
• Cell Signalling
• Stem Cells
•
Protein Networks and Interactions
• RNAi
•
Exploiting Computational Methods in Disease
• Molecular Tools
• Free papers
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information
Date
and Venue: 6-10 September, 2005; Oslo, Norway
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