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Postdoc in Metabolomic Systems Biology of Cancer
by R.Breitling 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

A 3-year postdoctoral position in Metabolomic Systems Biology is available immediately for a joint project on the metabolomics of cancer cells at the University of Glasgow (Rainer Breitling) and the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research (Eyal Gottlieb). The project will focus on the development of creative bioinformatics approaches for the analysis and interpretation of high-accuracy mass spectrometry datasets, including kinetic data based on stable-isotope labeling, and their integration with transcript information and metabolic modeling. The aim of the project is to understand the metabolic rewiring observed to be a critical factor in the pathology of many human cancers. Candidates should have a strong background in bioinformatics, molecular systems biology, biochemistry, biostatistics and/or bioengineering. Solid programming skills are essential and experience with cancer biology would be a plus. A proven ability of performing creative interdisciplinary research is required. We also expect a pro-active attitude and the ability to initiate and execute research lines independently. Excellent communication and reporting skills are necessary. Qualified applicants are invited to send their applications, including a motivation letter, complete CV, a pdf copy of their 3 best papers and the contact details of academic referees directly to Rainer Breitling (rainer.breitling(a)glasgow.ac.uk; http://www.tinyurl.com/rbreitling) Key literature: Tennant DA, Durán RV, Gottlieb E. (2010) Targeting metabolic transformation for cancer therapy. Nature Reviews Cancer. 10(4):267-77. Rogers S, Scheltema RA, Girolami M, Breitling R (2009) Probabilistic assignment of formulas to mass peaks in metabolomics experiments. Bioinformatics. 25(4):512-8. Scheltema RA, Decuypere S, Dujardin JC, Watson D, Jansen RC, Breitling R (2009): A simple data reduction method for high resolution LC/MS data in metabolomics. Bioanalysis 1:1569–1578. Breitling R, Vitkup D, Barrett MP (2008) New surveyor tools for charting microbial metabolic maps. Nature Reviews Microbiol. 6(2):156-61. Prof. Dr. Rainer Breitling SULSA Professor of Systems Biology, University of Glasgow Honorary Professor of Computational Systems Biology, University of Groningen Mailing address: Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences Joseph Black Building, B3.10 University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland, United Kingdom tel: (+44) (0)141-330-7374 e-mail: rainer.breitling(a)glasgow.ac.uk http://tinyurl.com/rbreitling http://gbic.biol.rug.nl/~rbreitling

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Bioinformatics PhD position Whole genome sequence analysis in tomato: Mechanisms of introgression breeding
by Roeland van Ham 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Please find below and attached a vacancy for a PhD position in plant genome bioinformatics. roeland van ham dr Roeland CHJ van Ham Cluster Leader Applied Bioinformatics Plant Research International Droevendaalsesteeg 1 6708 PB Wageningen The Netherlands Tel: + 31 317 481053 PhD position ‘Whole genome sequence analysis in tomato: Mechanisms of introgression breeding’ Applied Bioinformatics, Plant Sciences Group, Wageningen University & Research Centre (WUR) Wageningen, The Netherlands 38 hours per week Reference number: PSG-BIOS-0001 Background: Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) is worldwide renowned for its research and education in the fields of life sciences, plant improvement and sustainability. Through these activities it aims to make essential contributions to the quality of life. A focus of pioneering research towards increased yields and improved quality is the genome biology of economically valuable crops such as tomato and potato. The Plant Sciences Group of WUR has an important position in international efforts to elucidate and use the genome sequence of these crops. The Applied Bioinformatics group of the PSG participates in these efforts through next generation sequencing, genome assembly, annotation and extracting biologically relevant knowledge from such genome sequences. WUR is also a partner in the Centre for BioSystems Genomics (CBSG2012). The CBSG and the National Institute for Plant Genome Research in Delhi, India, have received a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to start a joint research project on development and application of next generation sequencing technologies to one of CBSG’s crop targets, tomato, which is also an important crop in India. Job description: the job concerns a PhD position in the Applied Bioinformatics group of the Plant Sciences Group of WUR. In this project, we will analyze the genomes of three tomato genotypes: two parents of the well-studied introgression line population, S. lycopersicum cv. Allround and S. pennellii LA716, and the genome of one F5 offspring line. Sequencing of these genomes will be performed in an associated project and will involve a combination of next generation sequencing technologies. Comparative bioinformatic analyses of the parent and offspring genomes will be geared towards obtaining novel insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying genetic introgression in plants. The PhD student will assemble, annotate and compare the three genome sequences with the aim to study the pattern of genome reorganization from chromosome- down to nucleotide-level detail. We will test and employ a variety of bioinformatics tools for genome assembly, annotation and whole-genome comparison, and perform SNP mining for breeding purposes. The collaboration within this project with the National Institute for Plant Genome Research in New Delhi, India, will imply that the PhD student will spend a maximum of 2 years of the 4-year PhD study at the sister institute in India. In addition, the PhD student will actively cooperate with an Indian counterpart (PhD student) based in Delhi and working on the breeding aspects of the project. This PhD student in return will spend a maximum of 2 years in Wageningen. Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands What do we look for? We are looking for an enthusiast team player with: * an excellent academic record (MSc) in bioinformatics * interest in genome informatics and bioinformatics for breeding * demonstrable skills in programming (perl or python, java, R) and databases (MySQL) * good oral and written communication skills in English * willingness to spend several periods amounting to 2 years of the PhD period in New Delhi, India * people skills in connection with biologists, breeders and bioinformaticians What do we offer? You will be part of a young, dynamic and focused applied bioinformatics group of ~15 people consisting of computational biologists and biology-oriented informaticians that focus on bioinformatics challenges in genomics. We offer a state-of-the art computational infrastructure and have close collaboration with plant biologists and breeding companies with considerable expert knowledge of the biological issues and wishes concerning the data. The position is available for 4 years, full time (38 hrs/wk), 2 years of which will be housed in New Delhi, India. The student will be part of the graduate school of Experimental Plant Sciences (EPS). The research should result in the successful defence of a PhD after 4 years. In line with the quality protocol of EPS, after 12 months and assuming progress and performance of the PhD student meets requirements the position will be continued for the full period. Preferred starting date: as soon as possible. Estimated maximum salary: € 2042/month in the first year, rising to € 2612/month in the fourth year (Dutch university PhD) Need to know more? Additional information about this project can be obtained from dr. Roeland van Ham, +31-317-481053, roeland.vanham(a)wur.nl <mailto:roeland.vanham@wur.nl> How to apply? You can apply for this job before October 1st, 2010 at http://www.wur.nl/UK/work

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MLSB 2010, call for papers & registration open
by Simon Rogers 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Apologies for multiple postings: ************************** Call for Posters ***************************** MLSB 2010 The Fourth International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology 15-16 October 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland *********************************************************************** http://mlsb10.ijs.si/ **REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN** MOTIVATION Molecular biology and all the biomedical sciences are undergoing a true revolution as a result of the emergence and growing impact of a series of new disciplines/tools sharing the "-omics" suffix in their name. These include in particular genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, devoted respectively to the examination of the entire systems of genes, transcripts, proteins and metabolites present in a given cell or tissue type. The availability of these new, highly effective tools for biological exploration is dramatically changing the way one performs research in at least two respects. First, the amount of available experimental data is not a limiting factor any more; on the contrary, there is a plethora of it. Given the research question, the challenge has shifted towards identifying the relevant pieces of information and making sense out of it (a "data mining" issue). Second, rather than focus on components in isolation, we can now try to understand how biological systems behave as a result of the integration and interaction between the individual components that one can now monitor simultaneously (so called "systems biology"). Taking advantage of this wealth of "genomic" information has become a conditio sine qua non for whoever ambitions to remain competitive in molecular biology and in the biomedical sciences in general. Machine learning naturally appears as one of the main drivers of progress in this context, where most of the targets of interest deal with complex structured objects: sequences, 2D and 3D structures or interaction networks. At the same time bioinformatics and systems biology have already induced significant new developments of general interest in machine learning, for example in the context of learning with structured data, graph inference, semi-supervised learning, system identification, and novel combinations of optimization and learning algorithms. The Workshop is organized as "core - event" of Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning - Network of Excellence 2 (PASCAL 2, http://www.pascal-network.org/) OBJECTIVE The aim of this workshop is to contribute to the cross-fertilization between the research in machine learning methods and their applications to systems biology (i.e., complex biological and medical questions) by bringing together method developers and experimentalists. We encourage submissions bringing forward methods for discovering complex structures (e.g. interaction networks, molecule structures) and methods supporting genome-wide data analysis. LOCATION AND CO-LOCATION The workshop will take place 15-16 October 2010 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre and the Informatics Forum of the University of Edinburgh. It will be part of the wokshop program of ICSB 2010, The 11th International Conference on Systems Biology (11-14 OCT 2010, http://www.icsb2010.org.uk/) POSTER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We invite you to submit an extended abstract of at least 1 page describing new or recently published (2010) results, formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Each extended abstract must be submitted online via the Easychair submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlsb10 KEY DATES Poster submission deadline: September 30th 2010 TOPICS A non-exhaustive list of topics suitable for this workshop is given below: Methods Machine learning algorithms Bayesian methods Data integration/fusion Feature/subspace selection Clustering Biclustering/association rules Kernel methods Probabilistic inference Structured output prediction Systems identification Graph inference, completion, smoothing Semi-supervised learning Applications Sequence annotation Gene expression and post-transcriptional regulation Inference of gene regulation networks Gene prediction and whole genome association studies Metabolic pathway modeling Signaling networks Systems biology approaches to biomarker identification Rational drug design methods Metabolic reconstruction Protein function and structure prediction Protein-protein interaction networks Synthetic biology INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed) Florence d'Alche Buc, Universite d'Evry-Val d'Essonne, Evry, France Nir Friedman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Ursula Kummer, BIOQUANT, University of Heidelberg, Germany Hans Lehrach, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany Vebjorn Ljosa, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA MLSB10 PROGRAM CHAIRS Saöo Dûeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Simon Rogers, University of Glasgow, UK Guido Sanguinetti, University of Sheffield/University of Edinburgh, UK -- Dr Simon Rogers Lecturer in Inference School of Computing Science University of Glasgow simon.rogers(a)glasgow.ac.uk skype: sdrogersskype The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401

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ESCS1 Call for participation
by Thomas Abeel 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Dear Colleagues, The first European Student Council Symposium (ESCS1) will be held on September 26, 2010 in Ghent, Belgium, as a satellite meeting of the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB). The European Student Council Symposium is a forum for students and young researchers in the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work to an international audience, build a network within the computational biology community and develop important soft skills in an environment that fosters exchange of ideas and knowledge. You can register to the student symposium even if you do not attend ECCB and it only costs 100 euros. http://escs.iscbsc.org/registration The program is available on our website and includes: - a keynote presentation by Yves Van de Peer about Generating hypotheses for molecular biology through (top-down) systems biology - a soft skill workshop on the use of theatre skills for presenting - student presentations from abstract submissions - a poster session See http://escs.iscbsc.org/program for more information Looking forward to seeing you in Belgium! Magali Michaut ESCS1 chair Thomas Abeel ESCS1 co-chair

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Job announcement: Bioinformatician – Sugar Beet Biotechnology (m/f)
by Thomas Van Parys 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Job description in attachment. -- ================================================================== 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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[ECCB10] Benelux Fellowships - LAST CHANCE FELLOWSHIPS - DEADLINE SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 5
by Yves Moreau 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Dear Colleagues, We have been quite successful in attracting participants to European Conference on Computational Biology 2010 with currently over 600 registered participants and 420 posters. This gives us a last chance to further support participation by bioinformaticians from the Benelux. We can offer several fellowships in the form of a discount registration rate of €100 for the conference. As you probably know, this year's European Conference on Computational Biology will act as the yearly Benelux Bioinformatics Conference. It is a unique opportunity to show internationally how active our bioinformatics community is, and for all research teams to put their work in the spotlight. The Benelux Bioinformatics Conference has always attracted numerous researchers from our bioinformatics community. ECCB10 will be a major scientific event happening "next door" - a not-to-be-missed opportunity! Conditions of the fellowships are the following: * The fellowship covers only the main conference * Attendance to the tutorials and workshops is not included (but possible at the registration rate of €100) * Attendance to the conference banquet is not included * Fellows MUST be currently affiliated to a Benelux institution * ISCB membership is not required * Fellows MUST submit a late-breaking poster (http://www.eccb10.org/index.php/guidelines/late-breaking-posters - web site is still open) and present their poster at the meeting * Fellows can be requested to perform 4 to 8 hours of volunteering work for the conference Priority will be given to PhD students over postdocs. Fellowships will partly be awarded on the basis of the number of registered members of the lab. For application, send an email to info(a)eccb10.org with "[ECCB10] Benelux Fellowships" as the subject and containing the following information by SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 5. * Full Name * Affiliation (including department/lab) * Name of advisor * Tentative poster title Looking forward to meeting you in September, Yves Moreau - ECCB10 Conference Chair for the ECCB10 Local Organizing Committee

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poste de Maître de Conférences - Paris Sud
by Jacques van Helden 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Begin forwarded message: From: Xavier Vekemans <xavier.vekemans(a)univ-lille1.fr> Date: 25 August 2010 16:28:59 CEST To: jvhelden(a)ulb.ac.be, Philippe Baret <Philippe.Baret(a)uclouvain.be>, Olivier Hardy <ohardy(a)ulb.ac.be> Cc: Christine Dillmann <dillmann(a)moulon.inra.fr> Subject: Re: poste MC au moulon Chers collègues, voici une annonce de poste de Maitres de Conférences en biomathématiques à l'Université de Paris Sud (Orsay), pour transmission à d'éventuels intéressés. L'ouverture du poste est au printemps 2011 pour recrutement en septembre 2011 mais la procédure en France demande l'obtention d'une qualification nécessitant une inscription sur la liste de qualification avant fin octobre 2010. Au plaisir de vous revoir à une prochaine occasion, amicalement, Xavier > > Assistant professor position : Modelling in Evolutionary System's Biology > > Assistant professor position in biomathematics at the University of Paris-Sud, France : Modelling in Evolutionary System's Biology. > > We are looking for a population geneticist with a strong background in mathematics or physics, or a mathematician or a physician with a strong knowledge in Biology. The research work will be on system's biology, at the interface between math and biology, to better understand the evolution of biological networks. The candidate will teachTeaching will be in mathematics, biostatistics and bioinformatics at the licence and master level for biology students of the University of Paris-Sud. The candidate will join the GQF team at the UMR du Moulon (http://www.moulon.inra.fr) > > The position should be opened in spring 2011. Applicants NEED to be qualified by the French ministry of Research and Education as follows : > > Deadline for the qualification = October 2010 > Informations about the procedure: > https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/candidats.html > Application for the qualification: > https://galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/antares/can/index.jsp > > > Foreign applications are welcome. Please contact-us before September 2010. We will help you with the qualification and application procedures. > > > Contact : Christine Dillmann, dillmann(a)moulon.inra.fr > > >

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[ECCB10] Call for Late-Breaking Posters & Early Registration Deadline - August 20
by Sylvain Brohée 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

=== Apologies for multiple postings - Please distribute widely within your lab === Dear Colleague, Due to numerous requests, we open now a brief call for late-breaking poster abstracts. Take advantage of this final opportunity to present your work at ECCB10. Be quick as the submission deadline is August 20, 2010, only two weeks from now. Note that this deadline also corresponds to the early registration deadline, so that you can still benefit from a favorable registration rate. === LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 20, 2010 === www.eccb10.org The European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB10) will be held on September 26-29, 2010 in Ghent, Belgium. ECCB10 is the key European computational biology event in 2010 uniting scientists working in a broad range of disciplines, including bioinformatics, computational biology, medicine, biology, and systems biology. This year we have had a record number of 215 manuscript submissions and we have accepted 392 poster abstracts. We are thus looking forward to a fruitful scientific meeting. Ghent is one of Europe's most exciting medieval settings, a glorious eclectic city with spectacular buildings and a vivid cultural experience (National Geographic Traveler recently ranked it 3rd best historic place to visit internationally). Ghent is directly accessible by train from Brussels airport. The conference venue is highly convenient and located in a beautiful park within the city center. We invite you to submit posters in any area of computational biology and bioinformatics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Sequence analysis, alignment, and next-generation sequencing * Comparative genomics, phylogeny, and evolution * Protein & nucleotide structure * Annotation and prediction of molecular function * Gene regulation and transcriptomics * Text mining, ontologies, and databases * Protein interactions, molecular networks, and systems biology * Genomic medicine * Other bioinformatics applications Posters, representing condensed descriptions of ongoing work, will be displayed during the meeting. Posters should describe original, interesting, and solid scientific content that is relevant to bioinformatics and computational biology. See the Guidelines at http://www.eccb10.org/index.php/guidelines/late-breaking-posters and and submit your abstract at http://www.eccb10.org/index.php/component/submission/. At least one of the authors of the poster will have to attend the meeting. Late-breaking posters will be available through the conference web site and indexed in the program book, but they will NOT be available on the conference CD because of the production schedule. The presenting author of each poster must register for the conference by the early registration deadline of August 20, 2010 for the abstract to be included in the program book and on the conference web site. We kindly request that you forward this announcement to the members of your team. We look forward to welcoming you to Ghent. The ECCB10 Organizing Committee www.eccb10.org ECCB10 KEY DATES * Late-breaking abstract submission deadline - August 20, 2010 * Early registration deadline - August 20, 2010 * Workshop and tutorials - Sunday September 26, 2010 * Conference opening - Sunday evening, September 26, 2010 * Main conference (proceedings, posters, and industry/demo track) - September 26-29, 2010 UNSUBSCRIBE - If you do not wish to receive further announcements for ECCB10, please reply to info(a)eccb10.org with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject heading.

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MLSB 2010 - call for posters and rgistration
by Simon Rogers 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

******************* Call for Posters/Registration ********************** MLSB 2010 The Fourth International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology 15-16 October 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland *********************************************************************** http://mlsb10.ijs.si/ (apologies for multiple postings) ** REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: ttp://tinyurl.com/2cp7xwc ** MOTIVATION Molecular biology and all the biomedical sciences are undergoing a true revolution as a result of the emergence and growing impact of a series of new disciplines/tools sharing the "-omics" suffix in their name. These include in particular genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, devoted respectively to the examination of the entire systems of genes, transcripts, proteins and metabolites present in a given cell or tissue type. The availability of these new, highly effective tools for biological exploration is dramatically changing the way one performs research in at least two respects. First, the amount of available experimental data is not a limiting factor any more; on the contrary, there is a plethora of it. Given the research question, the challenge has shifted towards identifying the relevant pieces of information and making sense out of it (a "data mining" issue). Second, rather than focus on components in isolation, we can now try to understand how biological systems behave as a result of the integration and interaction between the individual components that one can now monitor simultaneously (so called "systems biology"). Taking advantage of this wealth of "genomic" information has become a conditio sine qua non for whoever ambitions to remain competitive in molecular biology and in the biomedical sciences in general. Machine learning naturally appears as one of the main drivers of progress in this context, where most of the targets of interest deal with complex structured objects: sequences, 2D and 3D structures or interaction networks. At the same time bioinformatics and systems biology have already induced significant new developments of general interest in machine learning, for example in the context of learning with structured data, graph inference, semi-supervised learning, system identification, and novel combinations of optimization and learning algorithms. The Workshop is organized as "core - event" of Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning - Network of Excellence 2 (PASCAL 2, http://www.pascal-network.org/) OBJECTIVE The aim of this workshop is to contribute to the cross-fertilization between the research in machine learning methods and their applications to systems biology (i.e., complex biological and medical questions) by bringing together method developers and experimentalists. We encourage submissions bringing forward methods for discovering complex structures (e.g. interaction networks, molecule structures) and methods supporting genome-wide data analysis. LOCATION AND CO-LOCATION The workshop will take place 15-16 October 2010 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre and the Informatics Forum of the University of Edinburgh. It will be part of the wokshop program of ICSB 2010, The 11th International Conference on Systems Biology (11-14 OCT 2010, http://www.icsb2010.org.uk/) POSTER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We invite you to submit an abstract of up to 4 pages (minimum 1 page) describing new or recently published (2010) results, formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Each extended abstract must be submitted online via the Easychair submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlsb10 KEY DATES 30th September: Poster submission deadline. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: ttp://tinyurl.com/2cp7xwc TOPICS A non-exhaustive list of topics suitable for this workshop is given below: Methods Machine learning algorithms Bayesian methods Data integration/fusion Feature/subspace selection Clustering Biclustering/association rules Kernel methods Probabilistic inference Structured output prediction Systems identification Graph inference, completion, smoothing Semi-supervised learning Applications Sequence annotation Gene expression and post-transcriptional regulation Inference of gene regulation networks Gene prediction and whole genome association studies Metabolic pathway modeling Signaling networks Systems biology approaches to biomarker identification Rational drug design methods Metabolic reconstruction Protein function and structure prediction Protein-protein interaction networks Synthetic biology INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed) Florence d'Alche Buc, Universite d'Evry-Val d'Essonne, Evry, France Nir Friedman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Ursula Kummer, BIOQUANT, University of Heidelberg, Germany Hans Lehrach, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany Vebjorn Ljosa, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA MLSB10 PROGRAM CHAIRS Saöo Dûeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Simon Rogers, University of Glasgow, UK Guido Sanguinetti, University of Sheffield/University of Edinburgh, UK SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative) Florence d'AlchÈ-Buc, University of Evry, France Paolo Frasconi, Universit‡ degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Cesare Furlanello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy Pierre Geurts, University of LiËge, Belgium Mark Girolami, University of Glasgow, UK Dirk Husmeier, Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, UK Samuel Kaski, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Ross D. King, Aberystwyth University, UK Neil Lawrence, University of Manchester, UK Elena Marchiori, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Yves Moreau, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium William Stafford Noble, University of Washington, USA Gunnar R‰tsch, FML, Max Planck Society, T¸bingen Juho Rousu, University of Helsinki, Finland CÈline Rouveirol, University of Paris XIII, France Yvan Saeys, University of Gent, Belgium Ljupco Todorovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Koji Tsuda, Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen Jean-Philippe Vert, Ecole des Mines, France Louis Wehenkel, University of LiËge, Belgium Jean-Daniel Zucker, University of Paris XIII, France Blaz Zupan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia LOCAL ORGANIZATION Fiona Clark, University of Edinburgh, UK Dragi Kocev, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia (webmaster) -- Dr Simon Rogers Lecturer in Inference School of Computing Science University of Glasgow simon.rogers(a)glasgow.ac.uk skype: sdrogersskype The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401

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ESCS1 Early Registration Aug 20 - Late Poster Aug 16
by Thomas Abeel 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Dear Colleagues, The first European Student Council Symposium (ESCS1) will be held on September 26, 2010 in Ghent, Belgium, as a satellite meeting of the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB). You can register to the student symposium even if you do not attend ECCB. It only costs 100 euros, but will be 150 euros after the early registration deadline. The Student Symposium accepts late poster submissions till August 16, with notification on August 18. We actively encourage you to submit work you are presenting at ECCB to the Student Symposium as well. === LATE POSTER DEADLINE: Aug 16, 2010 === http://escs.iscbsc.org/abstract-submission === EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Aug 20, 2010 === http://escs.iscbsc.org/registration The program is available on our website and includes: - a keynote presentation by Yves Van de Peer about Generating hypotheses for molecular biology through (top-down) systems biology - a soft skill workshop on the use of theatre skills for presenting - student presentations from abstract submissions - a poster session See http://escs.iscbsc.org/program Looking forward to seeing you in Belgium! Magali Michaut ESCS1 chair Thomas Abeel ESCS1 co-chair

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