Workshops 2007

Affinity Proteomics: 3rd ESF workshop on Ligand Binders against the Human Proteome

Workshop organisers:
Mike Taussig: Babraham Institute, UK
Oda Stoevesandt: Babraham Institute, UK
Cheryl Smythe : Babraham Institute, UK

The aims will be to review the requirements of tools, binding molecules and technologies for European affinity proteomics programmes. Previous meetings funded by the ESF Functional Genomics programme have been highly successful and influential in defining the field and have led to the EC ProteomeBinders coordination action which will be co-funding this workshop.
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Date and venue: March 13-15, 2007; Alpbach, Austria

Non-Protein-Coding RNA

Workshop organisers:
Juergen Brosius: University of Muenster, Germany
Carole Charlier: University of Liege, Belgium
Gerhart Wagner: University of Uppsala, Sweden
Renee Schroeder: University of Vienna, Austria
Herve Vaucheret: INRA, Versailles, France
Witold Filipowicz : Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Eric Wiemer: University of Rotterdam, Netherlands
Martin Crespi: CNRS, France

RNAs that do not encode protein (npcRNAs) are important players in cellular life. European scientists have made excellent contributions to this burgeoning field. In order to further bundle activities and to generate more synergy in the future, this meeting will bring together members from currently EU sponsored STREPs and other colleagues who wish to exchange their scientific activities and broaden their scientific interactions.
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Date and venue: March 17-19, 2007; Carry le Rouet near Marseille, France

2nd BioCreative Challenge Evaluation: assessment of text mining methods in molecular biology

Workshop organisers:
Martin Krallinger: Spanish National Cancer Center (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Alfonso Valencia: Spanish National Cancer Center (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Lynette Hirschman: MITRE, Bedford, MA, USA

The BioCreAtIvE challenge provides a community-based approach to evaluate the current state of biomedical text mining tools. Its main aims are to pose biological relevant tasks resulting in Gold Standard data collections as well as in biological relevant applications with practical use for both the biology and bioinformatics communities.
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Date and Venue: April 23-25, 2007; Madrid, Spain

Mining of High-Throughput Data in Functional Genomics

Workshop organisers:
Daniel Berrar: University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland
Werner Dubitzky: University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

The workshop will focus on data mining methods and methodolgies for the analysis of high-throughput data in functional genomics. Particular emphasis is placed on novel methodologies that work within the systems biology framework facilitating the understanding of complex biological mechanisms, multi-gene function and the transcriptome. Each contribution is expected to demonstrate the presented techniques on the basis of an actual case study in research or development.
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Date and Venue: May 8-9, 2007; Coleraine, Northern Ireland

Novel approaches to study of kinase and GTPase signaling

Workshop organisers:
Eric Chevet: Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, France
Violaine Moreau: Unité INSERM, France
Antoine de Daruvar: Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, France

The objective will be to discuss how the use of powerful new technological approaches such as proteomics or siRNA can lead to the discovery of new trends/concepts in signal transduction analyses with focus/emphasis on the necessity of nucleotide tri-phosphate hydrolysis for these pathways to operate. This represents a novel initiative to give an alternative look at signal transduction pathways.
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Date and Venue: Sept 26-28, 2007; Bordeaux, France