September 2008 - BBClist - maillist.psb.ugent.be

PhD and Post-doc positions in Gent
by Eric Bonnet 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

The laboratory of Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics, part of the VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, located in Gent and headed by Yves Van de Peer has an opening for: - A PhD position to work on an exciting European FP7 project on Symbiotic Evolutionary Robots Organisms (SYMBRION). - A Post-doc position for an ambitious collaborative project between our department and the company cropdesign BASF. See files attached for further details on the positions.

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Reminder: Invitation BBC 2008 - deadline abstract submission: October 1st, 2008
by Coort Susan (BIGCAT) 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

REMINDER Benelux Bioinformatics Conference (BBC) Date: 15 & 16 December 2008 Venue: Maastricht, the Netherlands The deadline for abstract submission is one week from now: October 1st, 2008! Other key dates: * Notification of selection of oral and poster presentations: October 15th, 2008 * Deadline for early registration: October 21st, 2008 * Deadline for late registration: December 1st, 2008 * Benelux Bioinformatics Conference: December 15 and 16, 2008 Information about the conference, the program, abstract submission and registration can be found here: http://www.nbic.nl/bbc2008/ We hope to see you at het BBC 2008 in December! Kind regards, On behalf of the organizing committee of the BBC 2008 Femke Francissen NBIC Office Previous email message: Dear researcher, This year's Benelux Bioinformatics Conference (BBC) will be organised by the department of Bioinformatics (BiGCaT, http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl) of Maastricht University, in cooperation with the Workgroup Bioinformatics (http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/wgbinf/) and the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (www.nbic.nl) As of this week the registration and abstract submission are open! Please visit the conference website for more information about the program, registration and abstract submission: http://www.nbic.nl/bbc2008/. Below you can find some key dates: * Deadline for abstract submission: October 1st, 2008 * Notification of selection of oral and poster presentations October 15th, 2008 * Deadline for early registration: October 21st, 2008 * Deadline for late registration: December 1st, 2008 * Benelux Bioinformatics Conference: December 15 and 16, 2008 For additional information you can contact: Andra Waagmeester: andra.waagmeester(a)bigcat.unimaas.nl <mailto:andra.waagmeester@bigcat.unimaas.nl> or Susan Coort: susan.coort(a)bigcat.unimaas.nl Telephone: +31 (0)43-388 2913 The Benelux Bioinformatics Conference (BBC) is a two-day international conference on bioinformatics. The BBC is the primary community event for bioinformatics researchers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg with excellent networking opportunities. The conference is aimed at both academic and industry researchers. Kind regards, NBIC Office Femke Francissen ************************************** Femke Francissen Office manager NBIC Phone: +31 (0)24 36 19500 E-mail: office(a)nbic.nl

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Fwd: Postdoc Position in Lyon
by Jacques van Helden 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Begin forwarded message: From: Marie-France Sagot <Marie-France.Sagot(a)inria.fr> (by way of Jean- Paul Doignon) Date: September 16, 2008 2:03:01 PM GMT+02:00 To: Anthony Labarre <alabarre(a)ulb.ac.be>, mlabbe(a)ulb.ac.be, Patrick Mardulyn <pmarduly(a)ulb.ac.be>, Jacques.Van.Helden(a)ulb.ac.be Subject: Postdoc Position in Lyon (apologies for previous message with subject missing) Dear all, Please, could you distribute around the call for a postdoc position below? Many thanks! kind regards, marie-france --- The main objective of the postdoc is to develop co-cladogenesis inference methods in order to better understand how tight is the association between symbionts, more specifically endosymbionts, and their hosts. Some of the questions we wish to address are, how often are symbionts horizontally transferred to other branches of the host phylogenetic tree, how long do parasites persist inside their host following the invasion of a new lineage, and what processes underlie this dynamic gain/loss equilibrium? To address the questions stated above using sequence data, island arthropod communities, namely from Huahine, Raiatea, Moorea and Tahiti in French Polynesia, will be examined as these allow to establish recent patterns of loss and gain of infections. This work will be conducted in the BAOBAB-BAMBOO teams of, resp., the Lab. de Biometrie et Biologie Evolutive (Univ. Lyon 1), and of the INRIA, France, in very close collaboration with the "Evolutionary genetic of host-parasite interactions" team at the LBBE, more particularly with Sylvain Charlat (CR1, CNRS) and a co-supervised PhD student. The postdoc is part of a vaster ANR-Blanc project on the combinatorial exploration of the molecular landscape and evolution of intimate species relations. The position is for one year renewable once and must start no later than December 2008. The candidate is expected to have a solid training in mathematics (combinatorics, possibly also statistics) and either an initial background or strong interest in biology. He/she should also enjoy team-work. Atypical profiles are welcome. For further enquiries, please contact Marie-France Sagot (email: Marie-France.Sagot(a)inria.fr) ideally before Oct. 15, 2008, with a CV, the names of three references who may be contacted for further information and an informal letter explaining your motivation for this position/work.

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CFP NIDISC'09
by talbi 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

********************************************************************** The 12th International Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing (NIDISC'09) http://www.lifl.fr/~talbi/nidisc held in conjunction with The 23th IEEE/ACM International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009) 25-29 May 2009 Rome, Italy http://www.ipdps.org ********************************************************************** Workshop Theme : ============= Techniques based on metaheuristics and nature-inspired paradigms can provide efficient solutions to a wide variety of problems. Moreover, parallel and distributed metaheuristics can be used to provide more powerful problem solving environments in a variety of fields, ranging, for example, from finance to bio- and health-informatics. This workshop seeks to provide an opportunity for researchers to explore the connection between metaheuristics and the development of solutions to problems that arise in operations research, parallel computing, telecommunications, bioinformativs, and many others. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Nature-inspired methods (e.g. ant colonies, GAs, cellular automata, DNA and molecular computing, local search, etc) for problem solving environments. * Parallel and distributed metaheuristics techniques (algorithms, technologies and tools). * Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed computing and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence, complexity, etc). * Other algorithms and applications relating the above mentioned research areas. Prospective authors of high quality research contributions are invited to submit an electronic copy of their manuscript not exceeding 8 two-column pages including figures and references in the traditional IEEE format used in IPDPS. Please, use Postscript or PDF when possible. In your email, please indicate paper title, author(s), and the corresponding author. A selected group of papers from the workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of an international scholarly journal. Further announcements will be made during the workshop. General Chair : ============ - Albert Y. Zomaya The University of Sydney -Australia- (zomaya(a)it.usyd.edu.au) Program Co-chairs : ============== Enrique Alba, University of Málaga –Spain– ( eat(a)lcc.uma.es ) Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences – Poland ( sered(a)ipipan.waw.pl ) El-ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA –France– ( talbi(a)lifl.fr ) Program Committee (to be completed) : ===================================== Michael Affenzeller, Univ. of Hagenberg, Austria Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Juergen Branke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Erick Cantú-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Univ. of Naples, Italia Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA Pilar Herrero, UPM, Spain Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Australia Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany Nordine Melab, University of Lille, France Michelle D. Moore, Texas A & M - Corpus Christi, USA Antonio J.Nebro, Univ. of Málaga, Spain Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy Marco Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Papers should be submitted to: ============================== - Enrique Alba, University of Málaga –Spain– ( eat(a)lcc.uma.es ) - Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences – Poland ( sered(a)ipipan.waw.pl ) - El-ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA –France– ( talbi(a)lifl.fr ) Important Dates: ================ - Submission Deadline - December 12, 2008 - Notification of Acceptance - January 20, 2009 - Final Copy Due - February 15, 2009 http://www.lifl.fr/~talbi/nidisc

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Seminar by Jeroen Raes at the VUB
by Jacques van Helden 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Untangling microbial ecosystems through their DNA: from oceans to the human body Dr. Jeroen Raes EMBL - Computational Biology Unit Heidelberg, Germany IMOL SEMINAR Friday 12th September 2008 at 11 am IMOL meeting room (E7) Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Vrije Universiteit Brussel Gebouw E Pleinlaan 2 B-1050 Brussel Info: Pierre Cornelis (pcornel(a)vub.ac.be)

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Fwd: [Gcb2008-info] Bioinformatics Professorship Dresden
by Jacques van Helden 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Begin forwarded message: From: Michael Schroeder <ms(a)biotec.tu-dresden.de> Date: September 5, 2008 7:13:55 PM GMT+02:00 To: evelin.schrock(a)tu-dresden.de Subject: [Gcb2008-info] Bioinformatics Professorship Dresden TU Dresden, Germany has an opening for a full professorship in bioinformatics with a focus on medical applications and statistics. Deadline is 10 Oct 2008. For details please contact Prof. Dr. Evelin Schröck. Technische Universität Dresden Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus Institut für Klinische Genetik Prof. Dr. med. Evelin Schröck Tel.: 0351-458 5136 (Sekr. Frau R. Großmann) Fax: 0351-458 6337 Email: evelin.schrock(a)tu-dresden.de <mailto:evelin.schrock@tu-dresden.de > Website: http://tu-dresden.de/med/kge --- The Medical Faculty and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of the Technische Universität Dresden invites applications for a full W3- Professorship position for Medical Biometrics and Statistics. The successful candidate will be appointed as Head of the Institute of Medical Informatics and Biometrics. The appointee will be expected to demonstrate outstanding leadership qualities. She/He will be responsible for establishing an original research programme and for teaching medical and postgraduate students. Selection criteria include excellent research results and relevant scientific publications as well as a successful track record in securing independent funding. Particular emphasis should be placed on the key area of bioinformatics in close collaboration with existing biomedical and translational research efforts on campus. Candidates are required to demonstrate a commitment to excellence in teaching. An active contribution to the restructuring of the Public Health Program will be expected. She/He will collaborate closely with the Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCC), the Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials (KKS) and the Computing Center (MRZ). Applicants must hold a MD and/or PhD, habilitation or equivalent qualification based on a university degree in bioinformatics, medicine or a closely related field and should provide evidence of their teaching skills (employment requirements are described in paragraph 40 Sächsisches Hochschulgesetz, 1999). The Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus of the Technische Universitat Dresden wishes to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and strongly encourages qualified female candidates to apply. Priority will be given to physically disabled persons with equivalent qualifications. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, copies of degree certificates, a full publication list, a short research proposal, a description of past and present externally funded research projects and a list of educational activities before October loth, 2008 , to the Deakn der Medizinischen Fakultät Carl gustav Carus der Technischen Universität Dresden, Herrn Prof. Dr. med. H. Reichmann, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307 Dresden.

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