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LUMC SASC (Sequencing Analysis Support Core) group is looking for a new bioinformatician
by H.Mei＠lumc.nl 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

Dear colleagues, At the group of Sequencing Analysis Support Core of Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands, we are looking for a new bioinformatician working on NGS data analysis pipelines. Please let us know if you are interested and please feel free to forward this vacancy as well. == The position == As a research assistant / data analyst, you will work on the analysis of next-generation sequencing data. This includes the development of new pipelines for the analysis and the interpretation of the data. The candidate will work in a research team with bioinformaticians and wet-lab researchers, who jointly focus on the study of genotype-phenotype relationships in disease models and in humans. You will become part of LUMC’s Sequence Analysis Support Core, assisting LUMC researchers in the analysis of different types of next generation sequencing data, including DNA resequencing, RNA sequencing, and ChIP-seq. == Your profile == You hold a BSc or MSc degree in bioinformatics. Alternatively, you are a biomedical scientist with a proven strong affinity for computer science or applied statistics and hands-on programming experience or you are a computer scientist with proven experience in solving biological questions. You are a dedicated and flexible team player with excellent communicative skills to work in between scientists from different domains. Aanstelling : Appointment is for one year, but can be extended. Dienstverband : 32 to 36-hour week Salaris : according CLA for University Hospitals == What we offer == You will be employed on the basis of a 32 to 36-hour week. The appointment is initially for one year but can be extended. Your salary will depend on your qualifications, experience and position and is according the Collective Labour Agreement for University Hospitals. == The department == At the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), we are continually seeking to improve the quality of healthcare. You will work within LUMC’s Department of Clinical Genetics. At the moment we are in the middle of the exciting transition in which whole exome and genome sequencing in being implemented into diagnostics in order to expand and improve personalized health-care. Our most important research questions is how to relate all the DNA sequence variants we find to the health of a patient (phenotype), and to the understanding of disease mechanisms in particular in muscular dystrophies, migraine, metabolic syndrome and cancer. In addition we face stunning technological developments, continuously enhancing the amount of DNA sequence produced per day, but every time using new methods for which new analysis algorithms have to be developed. == More information or to apply == Please contact Dr. Hailiang (Leon) Mei, telephone +31 (0)71 5269836 e-mail h.mei(a)lumc.nl or Dr. Nienke van der Stoep, telephone +31 (0)71 526 9832 e-mail nvdstoep(a)lumc.nl Best regards, Leon -- Hailiang (Leon) Mei Sequencing Analysis Support Core Leiden University Medical Center - http://sasc.lumc.nl Office: LUMC T6-48 Phone: +31 (0)71 5269836 Netherlands Bioinformatics Center BioAssist NGS Taskforce - http://ngs.nbic.nl Skype: leon_mei Mobile: +31 6 41709231

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Announcement: NCSB tutorial on pathway and network analysis
by Kutmon Martina (BIGCAT) 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

NCSB tutorial: Pathway and Network Analysis Date: 2013 September 11 (Wednesday) Location: SURF, Building D (5th floor), Hojel City Centre, Graadt van Roggenweg 340, Utrecht, NL Tutors: Martina Kutmon, Susan Coort, Anwesha Bohler (NBIC/UM), BiGCaT group, Department of Bioinformatics, Maastricht University (UM) Contact: Martina Kutmon (martina.kutmon(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl) Website: www.ncsb.nl/tutorial/pathways Registration: www.ncsb.nl/congress/public (deadline 2013-09-04) This one-day tutorial, aimed at PhD students and postdocs, focuses on integrative approaches in pathway and network analysis. The morning session will be devoted to lectures providing a basic understanding in biological pathways and networks, relevant file formats, pathways and interaction resources, as well as different pathway and network analysis methods. In the afternoon participants will take part in a hands-on session to learn how to analyse biological processes and networks in PathVisio (www.pathvisio.org) and Cytoscape (www.cytoscape.org) In addition to explaining how the two tools work, it will be demonstrated how they can be used together. Topics that will be covered are: data visualisation on pathways and networks, statistical analyses, data integration, and tips and tricks how to use PathVisio and Cytoscape.

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LATA 2014: 2nd call for papers
by GRLMC 17 Aug '13

17 Aug '13

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************************* 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2014 Madrid, Spain March 10-14, 2014 Organized by: Research Group on Implementation of Language-Driven Software and Applications (ILSA) Complutense University of Madrid Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2014 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). VENUE: LATA 2014 will take place in Madrid, the capital of Spain. The venue will be the School of Informatics of Complutense University. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata, concurrency and Petri nets automatic structures cellular automata codes combinatorics on words compilers computability computational complexity data and image compression decidability issues on words and languages descriptional complexity DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing digital libraries and document engineering foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML fuzzy and rough languages grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life natural language and speech automatic processing parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series quantum, chemical and optical computing semantics string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics symbolic neural networks term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Javier Esparza (Munich Tech, DE) Leslie A. Goldberg (Oxford, UK) Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, US) Sanjeev Khanna (Philadelphia, US) Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Dana Angluin (Yale, US) Eugene Asarin (Paris Diderot, FR) Jos Baeten (Amsterdam, NL) Christel Baier (Dresden, DE) Jan Bergstra (Amsterdam, NL) Jin-Yi Cai (Madison, US) Marek Chrobak (Riverside, US) Andrea Corradini (Pisa, IT) Mariangiola Dezani (Turin, IT) Ding-Zhu Du (Dallas, US) Michael R. Fellows (Darwin, AU) Jörg Flum (Freiburg, DE) Nissim Francez (Technion, IL) Jürgen Giesl (Aachen, DE) Annegret Habel (Oldenburg, DE) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sampath Kannan (Philadelphia, US) Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern, US) Deepak Kapur (Albuquerque, US) Joost-Pieter Katoen (Aachen, DE) S. Rao Kosaraju (Johns Hopkins, US) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton, CA) Gad M. Landau (Haifa, IL) Andrzej Lingas (Lund, SE) Jack Lutz (Iowa State, US) Ian Mackie (École Polytechnique, FR) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Giancarlo Mauri (Milan, IT) Faron G. Moller (Swansea, UK) Paliath Narendran (Albany, US) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Helmut Prodinger (Stellenbosch, ZA) Jean-François Raskin (Brussels, BE) Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt Berlin, DE) Marco Roveri (Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT) Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA, Nancy, FR) Yasubumi Sakakibara (Keio, JP) Davide Sangiorgi (Bologna, IT) Colin Stirling (Edinburgh, UK) Jianwen Su (Santa Barbara, US) Jean-Pierre Talpin (IRISA, Rennes, FR) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Rick Thomas (Leicester, UK) Sophie Tison (Lille, FR) Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Sydney, AU) Helmut Veith (Vienna Tech, AT) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Ana Fernández-Pampillón (Madrid) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Antonio Sarasa (Madrid) José-Luis Sierra (Madrid, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from July 15, 2013 to March 10, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 14, 2013 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2013 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2013 Early registration: December 9, 2013 Late registration: February 24, 2014 Starting of the conference: March 10, 2014 End of the conference: March 14, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: June 14, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universidad Complutense de Madrid Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Biostatistician position
by Johann Pellet 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Experienced Biostatistician position at CNRS-EISBM in Lyon in relation with the IMI U-BIOPRED Consortium on Severe Asthma Key words: Biostatitstics, Experimental design, Power analysis, Bayesian statistics, Clustering of clinical and multi-omics data, Statistical analysis of networks We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and self-driven candidate to join an international cross-disciplinary team of biologists, clinical scientists, clinicians and computer scientists from academy and industry to make a significant impact on the project goal to characterise and stratify severe asthma, to lead more relevant treatments. Scientific Project: The U-BIOPRED Consortium (Unbiased BIOmarkers for PREDiction of respiratory disease outcomes) aims at understanding severe asthma phenotypes thorugh an integrative approach. It involves scientists from universities, research institutes, hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry and small companies across Europe. It is funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) of the European Commission 7th Framework Programme and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations: http://www.imi.europa.eu/; http://www.ubiopred.european-lung-foundation.org Job context: She/he will be based in Lyon-Gerland within the CNRS-EISBM team led by Charles Auffray, hosted by Claude Bernard University on the Charles Mérieux campus: http://www.eisbm.org The successful candidate will participate in the statistical analysis of clinical and high-dimensional data (genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, lipidomic, breathomic) produced by all U-BIOPRED academic and industrial partners and companion projects to identify biomarker fingerprints, and integrate them into severe asthma phenotype handprints of clinical utility. Job description: The ideal candidate holds an academic degree (MSc, Engineering, PhD) and has significant experience in the analysis, integration, clustering and modelling of complex, heterogeneous biological datasets. He/she will collaborate closely with a multi-disciplinary team of computer scientists, bioinformaticians, biologists, clinical scientists and medical doctors. Excellent analytical, communication, management and reporting skills in English are essential for this role. It involves some travelling across Europe for joint working sessions at partners sites. Responsibilities: • Support statistical assessments of clinical and multi-omics data • Participate in the analysis and integration of data generated by different omic platforms • Contribute to the development and implementation of the Statistical Data Analyisis Plan Required Experience/Skills: • Significant experience in biostatistics and biology in academic or in industry • Experience in the integration of heterogeneous high-dimensional data types • Rigour, autonomy and excellent relational and teamwork skills Contract Duration: Available immediately for one year with a possible extension for a second year. Salary: Depending on qualifications and experience, based on CNRS salary grid. Application: Send CV, cover letter and two references to Charles Auffray Email: jobs(a)eisbm.org More information at: http://job.eisbm.org/biostatistician-position/

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Post-doctoral position in Computational Biology
by Johann Pellet 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Post-doctoral position in Computational Biology at CNRS-EISBM in Lyon in relation with the IMI U-BIOPRED Consortium on Severe Asthma Key words: Computational Systems Biology, Pathways and Networks, Data integration and modelling, Machine learning, Ontologies and data standards We are looking for a dynamic and self-driven candidate thrilled to join an international cross-disciplinary team of biologists, clinicians and computer scientists from academy and industry in their efforts to overcome the hurdles in understanding and treating severe asthma. Scientific Project: The U-BIOPRED Consortium (Unbiased BIOmarkers for PREDiction of respiratory disease outcomes) aims at understanding severe asthma phenotypes through an integrative approach. It involves scientists from universities, research institutes, hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry and small companies across Europe. It is funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) of the European Commission 7th Framework Programme and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations: http://www.imi.europa.eu/; http://www.ubiopred.european-lung-foundation.org Job context: She/he will be based in Lyon-Gerland within the CNRS-EISBM team led by Charles Auffray, hosted by Claude Bernard University on the Charles Mérieux campus: http://www.eisbm.org The successful candidate will participate in the computational analysis of clinical and high-dimensional data (genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, lipidomic, breathomic) produced by all U-BIOPRED academic and industrial partners and companion projects to identify biomarker fingerprints, and integrate them into severe asthma phenotype handprints of clinical utility. Job description: The ideal candidate holds a PhD degree specializing in integration and analysis of complex, heterogeneous biological datasets. He/she will collaborate closely with a multi-disciplinary team of computer scientists, bioinformaticians, biologists and medical doctors. Excellent communication, management and reporting skills in English are essential for this role, which entails travelling across Europe for joint working sessions at partners sites. Required Experience/Skills: • PhD degree in computational biology • Experience in integration of heterogeneous high-dimensional data types • Knowledge in network inference, analysis and modelling • Familiarity with pathways databases and visualization tools • Rigour, autonomy and excellent relational and teamwork skills Contract Duration: Available immediately for one year with a possible extension for a second year. Salary: Depending on qualifications and experience, based on CNRS salary grid. Application: Send CV, cover letter and two references to Charles Auffray Email: jobs(a)eisbm.org Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview. More information: http://job.eisbm.org/post-doctoral-position-in-computational-biology/

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2 PhD and 1 Postdoc position at Van de Peer Lab (VIB/UGent)
by Thomas Van Parys 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

The following positions are now open in the Van de Peer Lab at VIB/Ghent University, Belgium (http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/) in relation to the ERC Advanced Grant Double-Up, on the importance of gene and genome duplications for natural and artificial organism populations. 2 PhD positions 1 Postdoc position The long-term establishment of ancient organisms that have undergone whole genome duplications has been exceedingly rare. On the other hand, tens of thousands of now-living species, both plants and animals, are polyploid, and contain multiple copies of their genome. The apparent paucity of ancient genome duplications and the existence of many species that are currently polyploid provide an interesting and fascinating enigma. A question that remains to be answered is whether these older genome duplications have survived by coincidence or whether they could survive only because they did occur, or were selected for, at very specific times, for instance during major ecological upheavals and periods of extinction. We hope to address these questions at different levels through 1) the analysis of whole plant genome sequence data and 2) the in silico modeling and evolution of artificial gene regulatory networks to mimic the genomic consequences of genome doubling and how this may affect network structure, redundancy, rewiring, and dosage balance. Furthermore, we aim at using simulated robotic models running on artificial gene regulatory networks in complex and challenging environments to evaluate how both natural and artificial organism populations can potentially benefit from gene and genome duplications for adaptation, survival, and evolution in general. DOUBLE-UP is a truly interdisciplinary proposal that will open up new horizons and perspectives for different fields of research, from bioinformatics and systems biology over comparative and evolutionary biology, to network modeling and evolutionary robotics. We are looking for 2 highly motivated PhD students and 1 highly motivated Postdoc to help us achieve these ambitious goals. A strong (bio)informatics background, good programming skills, and previous modeling/simulation experience are all required. A background in evolutionary biology and population biology is strongly preferred. Some interest in evolutionary robotics and artificial life is an advantage. Applicants should be proficient in English, both speaking and writing. The positions are available starting October 1st, 2013, with funding secured for at least four years. Contact Yves Van de Peer at yves.vandepeer(a)psb.ugent.be for more information and/or to apply. To apply, please send a detailed CV and motivation letter before August 15th. -- ================================================================== Thomas Van Parys Tel:+32 (0)9 331 36 95 fax:+32 (0)9 3313809 VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, BELGIUM thomas.vanparys(a)psb.vib-ugent.be http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be ==================================================================

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Belgian Medical Genomics Initiative (BeMGI) kickoff meeting
by Marilou Ramos Pamplona 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

Belgian Medical Genomics Initiative (BeMGI) kickoff meeting* "Bringing genomics to the clinic: potential impact and challenges to overcome." Next generation sequencing (NGS) will very soon reach clinical practice. We kindly invite you to a meeting where, in a short format, the medical, societal and ethical aspects will be explained. Tuesday, 18 June 2013 Centraal Auditorium Onderwijs & Navorsing 1 UZ Leuven Campus Gasthuisberg Herestraat 49 3000 LEUVEN Afternoon scientific conference, 13h00-16h30: Keynote speakers Prof Gert-Jan van Ommen and Prof Peter Visscher. Evening plenary session, 17h30-20h30: Keynote speakers Prof Eric Green and Prof Bartha Knoppers. *This meeting will be eligible for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Attendance to the conference is free. To help us in planning this event, please let us know that you would like to attend by sending an email to BelgianMGI(a)gmail.com, preferably before 08 June. Meeting information: http://www.giga.ulg.ac.be/jcms/prod_1033658/fr/belgian-medical-genomics-ini….

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LATA 2014: 1st call for papers
by GRLMC 20 Jul '13

20 Jul '13

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************************* 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2014 Madrid, Spain March 10-14, 2014 Organized by: Research Group on Implementation of Language-Driven Software and Applications (ILSA) Complutense University of Madrid Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2014 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). VENUE: LATA 2014 will take place in Madrid, the capital of Spain. The venue will be the School of Informatics of Complutense University. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata, concurrency and Petri nets automatic structures cellular automata codes combinatorics on words compilers computability computational complexity data and image compression decidability issues on words and languages descriptional complexity DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing digital libraries and document engineering foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML fuzzy and rough languages grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life natural language and speech automatic processing parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series quantum, chemical and optical computing semantics string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics symbolic neural networks term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Dana Angluin (Yale, US) Eugene Asarin (Paris Diderot, FR) Jos Baeten (Amsterdam, NL) Christel Baier (Dresden, DE) Jan Bergstra (Amsterdam, NL) Jin-Yi Cai (Madison, US) Marek Chrobak (Riverside, US) Andrea Corradini (Pisa, IT) Mariangiola Dezani (Turin, IT) Ding-Zhu Du (Dallas, US) Michael R. Fellows (Darwin, AU) Jörg Flum (Freiburg, DE) Nissim Francez (Technion, IL) Jürgen Giesl (Aachen, DE) Annegret Habel (Oldenburg, DE) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sampath Kannan (Philadelphia, US) Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern, US) Deepak Kapur (Albuquerque, US) Joost-Pieter Katoen (Aachen, DE) S. Rao Kosaraju (Johns Hopkins, US) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton, CA) Gad M. Landau (Haifa, IL) Andrzej Lingas (Lund, SE) Jack Lutz (Iowa State, US) Ian Mackie (École Polytechnique, FR) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Giancarlo Mauri (Milan, IT) Faron G. Moller (Swansea, UK) Paliath Narendran (Albany, US) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Helmut Prodinger (Stellenbosch, ZA) Jean-François Raskin (Brussels, BE) Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt Berlin, DE) Marco Roveri (Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT) Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA, Nancy, FR) Yasubumi Sakakibara (Keio, JP) Davide Sangiorgi (Bologna, IT) Colin Stirling (Edinburgh, UK) Jianwen Su (Santa Barbara, US) Jean-Pierre Talpin (IRISA, Rennes, FR) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Rick Thomas (Leicester, UK) Sophie Tison (Lille, FR) Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Sydney, AU) Helmut Veith (Vienna Tech, AT) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Ana Fernández-Pampillón (Madrid) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Antonio Sarasa (Madrid) José-Luis Sierra (Madrid, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from July 15, 2013 to March 10, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 14, 2013 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2013 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2013 Early registration: December 9, 2013 Late registration: February 24, 2014 Starting of the conference: March 10, 2014 End of the conference: March 14, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: June 14, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universidad Complutense de Madrid Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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RECOMB-CG registration is open + call for posters
by Macha Nikolski 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

Dear colleagues, Registration is now open to attend the 11th Recomb satellite meeting on Comparative Genomics that will be held in Lyon-Villeurbanne (France) from Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 October 2013. http://rcg2013.sciencesconf.org/ We invite you to attend this meeting and send an abstract for a poster presentation. During this meeting, best posters will be awarded! Please pay attention that our early bird registration fees are ending September 6th. Keynote speakers are - Tal Dagan (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany) - Kay Pruefer (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany) - Ludovic Orlando (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - France Denoeud (Genoscope, Evry, France) - Nicolas Galtier (Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Montpellier, France) - Laurent Duret (Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Lyon, France) In addition, 19 short presentations have been selected upon the acceptance of their article through a peer review process chaired by Macha Nikolski and Yves van de Peer, that will be published in BMC bioinformatics. We will be happy to host you in Lyon-Villeurbanne Macha Nikolski on behalf of the local organizing, program and steering committees.

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TPNC 2013: extended submission deadline 23 July
by GRLMC 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: July 23 !!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************************* 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2013 Cáceres, Spain December 3-5, 2013 Organized by: Computer Architecture and Logic Design Group (ARCO) University of Extremadura Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: TPNC is a conference series intending to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2013 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It aims at attracting contributions to nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature. VENUE: TPNC 2013 will take place in Cáceres, in Western Spain, 300 kms. to the southwest of Madrid and 100 kms. to the Portuguese border. The old city is a UNESCO World Heritage site. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical, experimental, or applied interest include, but are not limited to: * Nature-inspired models of computation: - amorphous computing - cellular automata - chaos and dynamical systems based computing - evolutionary computing - membrane computing - neural computing - optical computing - swarm intelligence * Synthesizing nature by means of computation: - artificial chemistry - artificial immune systems - artificial life * Nature-inspired materials: - computing with DNA - nanocomputing - physarum computing - quantum computing and quantum information - reaction-diffusion computing * Information processing in nature: - developmental systems - fractal geometry - gene assembly in unicellular organisms - rough/fuzzy computing in nature - synthetic biology - systems biology * Applications of natural computing to: algorithms, bioinformatics, control, cryptography, design, economics, graphics, hardware, learning, logistics, optimization, pattern recognition, programming, robotics, telecommunications etc. A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions. STRUCTURE: TPNC 2013 will consist of: ‐ invited talks ‐ invited tutorials ‐ peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Risto Miikkulainen (Austin), Evolving Neural Networks (tutorial) Yew-Soon Ong (Singapore), Advances in Memetic Computation Xin Yao (Birmingham), Evolutionary Algorithm Portfolios for Numerical Optimisation PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Selim G. Akl (Kingston, CA) Thomas Bäck (Leiden, NL) Peter J. Bentley (London, UK) Hans-Georg Beyer (Dornbirn, AT) Mauro Birattari (Brussels, BE) Jinde Cao (Nanjing, CN) Vladimir Cherkassky (Minneapolis, US) Sung-Bae Cho (Seoul, KR) John A. Clark (York, UK) Carlos A. Coello Coello (Mexico DF, MX) David W. Corne (Edinburgh, UK) Peter Dayan (London, UK) Bernard De Baets (Ghent, BE) Andries P. Engelbrecht (Pretoria, ZA) Enrique Herrera-Viedma (Granada, ES) Yaochu Jin (Guildford, UK) Nikola Kasabov (Auckland, NZ) Vladik Kreinovich (El Paso, US) Kwong-Sak Leung (Hong Kong, CN) Xiaohui Liu (London, UK) Manuel Lozano (Granada, ES) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Julian F. Miller (York, UK) Frank Neumann (Adelaide, AU) Leandro Nunes de Castro (São Paulo, BR) Nikhil R. Pal (Kolkata, IN) Günther Palm (Ulm, DE) José Carlos Príncipe (Gainesville, US) Helge Ritter (Bielefeld, DE) Conor Ryan (Limerick, IE) Hava Siegelmann (Amherst, US) Moshe Sipper (Beer-Sheva, IL) Thomas Stützle (Brussels, BE) Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Singapore, SG) Johan Suykens (Leuven, BE) Kay Chen Tan (Singapore, SG) Dacheng Tao (Sydney, AU) Jon Timmis (York, UK) Marco Tomassini (Lausanne, CH) Michael D. Vose (Knoxville, US) Michael N. Vrahatis (Patras, GR) Harald Weinfurter (Munich, DE) Rolf Würtz (Bochum, DE) Jun Zhang (Guangzhou, CN) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) LOCAL COMMITTEE: Víctor Berrocal-Plaza José M. Chaves-González Juan A. Gómez-Pulido David L. González-Álvarez José M. Granado-Criado Alejandro Hidalgo-Paniagua José M. Lanza-Gutiérrez Álvaro Rubio-Largo Sergio Santander-Jiménez Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (chair) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standards of the Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2013 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of the journal Soft Computing (Springer, 2011 impact factor: 1.880) will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from April 17 to December 3, 2013. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/Registration DEADLINES: Paper submission: July 23, 2013 (23:59h, CET) – EXTENDED – Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 27, 2013 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 3, 2013 Early registration: September 10, 2013 Late registration: November 19, 2013 Starting of the conference: December 3, 2013 End of the conference: December 5, 2013 Submission to the post-conference special issue: March 5, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2013 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Diputación de Cáceres Universidad de Extremadura Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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