Workshops 2010

Visualising Biological Data

Workshop organiser:
Seán O'Donoghue: EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

The most important way that biologists interact with their data is through visualisation systems. This workshop will, for the first time, bring together researchers developing and using systems to visualise a broad range of biological data, including sequences, genomes, phylogenies, macromolecular structures, systems biology, microscopy, and magnetic resonance imaging. International speakers will review the state-of-the-art and highlight current and future challenges across this broad range of visualisation systems, and the workshop will provide a forum to help identify and exploit synergies across
different fields.
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Date and venue: March 3-5, 2010; Heidelberg, Germany

Novel Approaches in Protein Engineering

Workshop organisers:
Ugur Sezerman: Sabanci University, Istanbul Turkey
Rita Casadio: Bologna University, Bologna, Italy
Turkan Haliloglu: Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Azmi Telefoncu: Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
Reinhard Sterner: University of Regensburg, Germany

The main objective of the meeting is to discuss new experimental methods, emerging technologies, new algorithms, software tools and their applications in protein engineering. In particular we will bring some of the world's leading scientists who have made significant progress in (i) computational approaches that are used in finding structural and sequence motifs in proteins, (ii) computational approaches that are used in determining impact of mutations on function and stability, (iii) molecular dynamics studies, (iv) molecular mechanics studies, (v) understanding the structure function relationship, (vi) protein engineering related databases, (vii) experimental approaches in rational design, (viii) experimental approaches in directed evolution, (ix) emerging technologies. Once the structure-function relation of proteins are better understood, one can hope to develop novel proteins for specific purposes, including enzymes for industrial processes and therapeutically molecules that could be employed as drugs for the treatment of a variety of human diseases such as several types of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and neurological diseases.
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Date and venue: April 23-25, 2010; Istanbul, Turkey

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Cell Signalling

Workshop organisers:
Kjetil Taskén: University of Oslo, Norway
Johannes L. Bos: University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands
Peter Downes: University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
Miles Houslay: University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Jacques Pouyssegur: Institute of Signaling, Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, CNRS, Nice, France
John Scott: University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA

The objectives of this workshop are to: 1) arrange a small but excellent and topical international meeting in the field of compartmentalised signal transduction, to get focus on the current and timely topic of dynamics and signalling systems which uses systems biology to integrate numerous data sets and parallel signaling events into an overall integrated network of signals; 2) contribute to scientific interaction and update of European researchers in this area; 3) educate Ph.D. students and Post Docs that will have the opportunity to meet internationally well recognised researchers in the area and also to present their own data; 4) promote and increase networking and concerted action in this research field in Europe and internationally.
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Date and venue: 20 September - 3 October, 2010; Oslo, Norway