On behalf of the organizing committee, we are honoured to announce the 18th European Carbohydrate Symposium (Eurocarb18), which will be held on August 2-6, 2015, in Moscow, Russia.
The European Carbohydrate Symposium is one of the most important events in the field, biennially organized under the auspices of the European Carbohydrate Organization (ECO). The first carbohydrate meeting of such level ever held in Moscow, Eurocarb18 will cover all aspects of modern basic and applied glycoscience.
Important Dates
Registration opening December 1, 2014 Deadline for abstract submission March 31, 2015 Notification on the status of submitted abstracts April 15, 2015 Early bird registration deadline April 30, 2015 Deadline for registration of presenting authors April 30, 2015
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is proud to announce a unique opportunity for students with a background in Biomedicine to join newly developed graduate (PhD) level 8-week courses offered alongside with Skoltech students this upcoming Term 3 of the spring semester.
Please note that course participation will be offered free of charge and participants will be selected on a competitive basis.
Registration is open for the following courses:
8-week course: “Neuroscience” by Raul R. Gainetdinov. 8- week course: “Developmental Biology” by Dmitri Papatsenko.
Classes will start on Monday, February 2, 2015 and end on Friday, March 27, 2015. Please find the class schedule attached.
Please note that language of instruction will be English only.
If you wish to apply to take part in the course, please send an e-mail (in English) to education@skolkovotech.ru by 5 pm on Thursday, January 29th.
Your message should include the following information: 1 Full name and Undergraduate/Graduate education; 2 Which course(s) you wish to take; 3 2-paragraph statement of purpose (in English) indicating why you wish to take the course as well as your qualifications which will allow you to be a active and beneficial contributor in the class; 4 Your level of English (If available, please attach TOEFL/IELTS results). In addition, please attach you CV and official university transcript.
All selected participants will receive a confirmation by e-mail on Friday, January 30, 2015.
If you have any questions, please contact education@skolkovotech.ru
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is proud to announce a unique opportunity for students with a background in Biomedicine to join newly developed graduate (PhD) level 8-week courses offered alongside with Skoltech students this upcoming Term 2 of the fall semester.
Please note that course participation will be offered free of charge and participants will be selected on a competitive basis.
Registration is open for the following courses:
8-week course: “CLINICAL TRIALS AS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE INNOVATION PROCESS IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT” by Eugene Selivra . 8- week course: “MATHEMATICAL MODELING IN POPULATION AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY” by Jaroslav Ispolatov 8-week course: “MOLECULAR BIOLOGY” by Petr Sergiev 8-week course: “BIOINFORMATICS, COMPARATIVE GENOMICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY” by Mikhail Gelfand 8-week course: “STEM CELLS” by Anton Berns, Marianna Bevova
Classes will start on Monday, October 27, 2014 and end on Friday, December 19, 2014. Please find the class schedule attached.
Please note that language of instruction will be English only.
If you wish to apply to take part in the course, please send an e-mail (in English) to education@skolkovotech.ru by 5pm on Friday, October 24th.
Your message should include the following information: Full name and Undergraduate/Graduate education; Which course(s) you wish to take; 2-paragraph statement of purpose (in English) indicating why you wish to take the course as well as your qualifications which will allow you to be a active and beneficial contributor in the class; Your level of English (If available, please attach TOEFL/IELTS results). In addition, please attach you CV and official university transcript.
All selected participants will receive a confirmation by e-mail on October 25, 2014.
If you have any questions, please contact education@skolkovotech.ru
- Do you need to predict tree pests & diseases for planning, investment, monitoring?
- Do you need reliable models with assumptions and outputs that you recognize?
- Do you need information on invasive forest pests & pathogens under climate change?
This workshop introduces models to predict the spread of invasive pests and diseases that have been developed and tested over three years through the collaboration of pathologists, entomologists and mathematical modellers in ISEFOR*. Model developers will demonstrate and explain the structure of the models: inputs, outputs and rules. You will have time for discussion about assumptions and describe your first impressions of the predictive facility of the models. You will work with the models, get to know them and derive your own output. The 8-hour workshop is programmed over two days to allow informal time for you to discuss model predictions and your needs with ISEFOR researchers and colleagues.
Contact Colette Jones to book your place at the workshop c.d.jones@abdn.ac.uk
This is the final workshop from the ISEFOR research project 2010-2014. ISEFOR researchers have worked together over three years analysing threats to European forests from invasive pests and pathogens, including alien organisms, vulnerable hosts, trade pathways for disease spread and the use of sentinel tree nurseries in China. More information is available at http://www.isefor.com/
*ISEFOR is a consortium of researchers funded by European Union Seventh Framework Programme
FP7 2007-2013 KBBE 2009-3 under grant agreement 245268; project coordinator Professor Stephen Woodward; administrator Dr Colette Jones c.d.jones@abdn.ac.uk
Modelling invasive pests & disease in European forests Workshop 19th-20th Feb 2014
Cellular automaton (CA) modelling
The workshop presents models developed by Prof Timo Pukkala and Timo Möykkynen at the
University of Eastern Finland. These are cellular automata models (CA), used commonly to simulate
the spread of forest fires and city expansion. CA models are cell-based with temporal and spatial
aspects. Every cell has a discrete state that depends on the states of neighbouring cells. States are
updated in discrete time steps according to fixed rules.
Selection of pests and diseases in ISEFOR
The disease-causing species that are modelled in ISEFOR were selected because: they are invasive; cause serious damage; environmental requirements are known; occurrence maps of host species are available; show a range of spread mechanisms; they permit different CA model variants and each can be used for other species with similar spread mechanisms. Models completed include: Pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus; Ash dieback, Chalara fraxinea; Pine pitch canker, Fusarium circinatum; Dothistroma needle blight, Dothistroma septosporum; Siberian moth Dendrolimus sibiricus; Emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis; Alder phytophtora The biology
Modellers work closely in ISEFOR with experts on the biology of the pest or pathogen: Christelle
Robinet INRA; Thomas Kirisits BOKU; Jan Stenlid SLU; Andrea Vannini and AnnaMaria Vettraino
UNITUS; Alberto Santini IPP-CNR; Stephen Woodward UOAberdeen; Paolo Capretti UoFirenze.
Model inputs, rules and parameters
Knowledge of pest and pathogen spread, host species cover, entry points and climatic variables are incorporated in the models via inputs and rules and determine cell states and transitions.
Model outputs
Model outputs include raster maps of forests, infected trees per cell, years of infection, probability of infection; area and percentage of infected cells; temporal development of infection.
Workshop Schedule
Day 1 Wednesday 19th February
Register from 11:15am onwards 1pm Welcome and buffet lunch 2pm Explanation of the models (7 models) How they work and results from each model 3:30pm Break 4pm Working with the models. In working groups, each group uses one model 5:30pm Question and answers from Day 1 7pm Dinner
Day 2 Thursday 20th February
8:30am Concluding sessions: Groups present their results 9:15am The models and the results are discussed 10:30am Break 11am Overall discussion on modelling invasive pests and pathogens 1pm workshop end delegates prepare to depart
MCCMB'13 (Moscow, Russia, July 25-28, 2013) is the sixth International Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics.
We welcome submissions of two-page abstracts from researchers working, in particular, in the following areas: - Sequence analysis (statistics of DNA and protein sequences; functional annotation of genes, proteins and genomes); - Structure of biopolymers (prediction of protein structure; interaction of proteins with ligands; comparative analysis of protein 3D structures; prediction of RNA structure); - Molecular evolution (phylogenetic analysis; comparative genomics; genome rearrangements); - Omics (genome and metagenome analysis; transcriptomics; large-scale analysis of proteomes and protein-protein interactions); - Systems biology (metabolic and signal pathways; models and networks); - Next generation sequencing; - Bioalgorithms.
The Executive Committee of FEBS has awarded the FEBS Congress for 2013 to the Russian Biochemical Society. It will be located in St. Petersburg, July 6th – 11th 2013 under the Congress Presidency of Professor Vladimir Skulachev with Professor Sir Richard Roberts as Chairman of the International Advisory Board.
The Congress Theme is “Mechanisms in Biology” and we are seeking to build a powerful and diverse program to support this key theme. Symposia presently under consideration include: Immunology, RNA, Carbohydrate Biochemistry, Stem Cell Biology, Mechanisms of Proteolysis, Bacteriology, Bioinformatics, & Techniques of Biochemistry. A total of 37 symposia will be included in the program. We are expecting to have a strong cohort of keynote and symposium speakers from Europe, USA, Japan and other countries.
Registration fees are accepted from January 5, 2013.
In your private Area, you will be able to manage the submission and corrections of abstracts before April 15, 2013. Please note, that your abstract will only be published if your payment is verified before April 15, 2013.
Young Scientists Forum Start of online registration and abstract submission October 1, 2012 Registration and abstract submission deadline January 15, 2013 Announcement of YSF Fellowships Winners February 28, 2013
In the era of Plant Genomics the amount of DNA information of crops has increased enormously. As a consequence, more effective and reliable phenotyping data has become the bottleneck for modern genetic crop improvement. Therefore Plant Phenotyping has become a major field of research in plant breeding.
In order to meet the challenges of this very new and promising field of research new technologies such as greenhouse automation and plant imaging systems are needed.
The PhenoDays 2011 International Symposium exactly addresses the Phenotyping bottleneck by providing stimulating talks from internationally renowned keynote speakers from the seed industry, breeding institutes and academic breeding groups working in the Plant Phenotyping research area.
This will surely be a great opportunity for the researchers from all over the world to meet and exchange their ideas, approaches and results in Plant Phenotyping research.
Besides the interesting scientific presentations the PhenoDays will also offer the opportunity to participate in practical workshops at one of the biggest Plant Phenotyping Research Facilities in Europe: The PhenoFab in Wageningen only 10 min. from the conference venue Hof van Wageningen.
Label and Label-Free Technologies in Synergy Webinar
You are invited to view our panel of experts on Wednesday, March 2, 2011, in a live, online educational seminar, "Label and Label-free Technologies in Synergy: Creating a Powerful Approach to Drug Discovery."
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Time: 12:00 noon ET; 9:00 a.m. PT; 5 p.m. GMT Duration: 1 hour Register now and submit your questions LIVE to the experts during the webinar! For more information and complimentary registration visit: www.sciencemag.org/webinar
Webinar Description
Label-free technologies have gained wide acceptance in both academic research settings and in drug discovery laboratories in recent years. With the advent of faster and more accurate label-free technologies, and their pairing with traditional systems for labeled detection, the use of highly sensitive medium to high throughput cellular and biochemical assays in microplate format is now routinely possible. This advance offers scientists a fuller picture of their system under study and speeds the screening of compounds for drug discovery. This webinar will explore in depth the pros and cons of combining traditional label technologies with label-free assays, a so-called orthogonal approach.
During the webinar, our panelists will:
Provide an overview of the various label-free technologies available Discuss how label-free technologies can be applied in drug discovery research Share their experience using a combination of label-free and traditional labeled detection systems Answer questions from webinar viewers live and in real time. Register at: www.sciencemag.org/webinar
Produced by the Science/AAAS Business Office and sponsored by PerkinElmer.
We are pleased to invite you to attend the 4th International Symposium of Environmental Physiology of Ectotherms and Plants (ISEPEP4), to be held on JULY 18-22, 2011 in Rennes, FRANCE (http://isepep4.univ-rennes1.fr/news.php).
Preliminary list of topics that may be covered during the conference:
1. Low temperature biology of insects - Dormancy, Diapause and Cryptobiosis - Phenology - Rapid cold hardening, acclimation and acclimatisation - Metabolism - Chilling injury and subsequent recovery
2. Molecular aspects of cold and heat stress: 'Omics' studies in low temperature biology of ectotherms and plants - Antifreeze and ice active proteins - Chaperone/heat shock proteins - Transcriptomics - Proteomics - Metabolomics
4. Water relations: - Dehydration and anhydrobiosis - Ion balance during stress - Ice nucleation and antinucleation - Aquaporins - Osmotic and ionic relations
5. Environmental physiology in alpine and polar environments
OMICS Publishing Group is organizing "International Conference & Exhibition on Virology" will be held during 5-7 September 2011 Baltimore, USA. We have attempted to contact you earlier regarding the Conference and as we are aware of your busy schedule and your engagement in many other activities, we would like to take the pleasure of contacting you again regarding Virology-2011 Baltimore, USA. We would like to take the utmost pleasure in inviting you to this conference to discuss and analyze “Novel Therapeutic Strategies in Virology".
Virology-2011 is a specially designed cluster conference, which covers a wide range of critically important sessions in basic Virology research to Advances in Cancer, Agriculture, Veterinary and Clinical research studies.
Virology-2011 organizing committee anticipates over 1500 participants to attend this premier event
The conference topics include:
• Viral Genomics and Proteomics • HIV associated diseases • Advances in Gene therapy • Tumour virology and immunology • Antiviral vaccine development • Clinical viral diagnostics • Agriculture and Plant virology • Veterinary viral genomics and proteomics • Pediatric viral diseases • Regulatory and Economical Aspects in Virology
OMICS Publishing Group invites you to attend the World Congress on Biotechnology going to be held on 21-23 March 2011 Hyderabad, India. We welcome all the participants from across the world to take part in this premier event.
MCCMB'11 (Moscow, Russia, July 21-24, 2011) is the fifth International Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics.
We welcome submissions of two-page abstracts from researchers working, in particular, in the following areas: - Sequence analysis (statistics of DNA and protein sequences; functional annotation of genes, proteins and genomes); - Structure of biopolymers (prediction of protein structure; interaction of proteins with ligands; comparative analysis of protein 3D structures; prediction of RNA structure); - Molecular evolution (phylogenetic analysis; comparative genomics; genome rearrangements); - Omics (genome and metagenome analysis; transcriptomics; large-scale analysis of proteomes and protein-protein interactions); - Systems biology (metabolic and signal pathways; models and networks); - Bioalgorithms. Please submit two-page abstracts following the instruction at http://mccmb.genebee.msu.ru/2011/index.php?id=submission
The deadline for submission of abstracts for oral presentations is March 1. The deadline for submission of poster abstracts is April 30.
Based on the conference history, we expect about 40 talks, 100 posters, and, possibly, some computer demonstrations and round tables.
Key dates: - Conference: July 21-24, 2011. - The on-site registration starts July 20. By this date, participants should already be registered online. - Satellite events: July 25-27 (the details will be provided at the conference Web site).
The Sixth International Symposium on Molecular Insect Science is the first of the series to be held outside of the USA. Previous Symposia, organized by the University of Arizona’s Center for Insect Science, have been met with great enthusiasm. By holding this in Amsterdam, in collaboration with Elsevier, it is hoped that the meeting will be even more accessible to scientists and their students in Europe, in the New World, Asia, Australasia, and elsewhere.
We welcome poster and abstract submissions on the following topics:
•Genomics and Proteomics •Arthropod EvoDevo •Neurobiology •(Antagonistic and Symbiotic) Interactions •Toxicology and Insecticide Resistance •Immunity •Endocrinology •Chemical Ecology and Behaviour •Pest Control Biotechnology •Drug Discovery Please check this website regularly. To keep informed of developments, abstract submission and programme information, register for email updates
The abstract deadline for oral and poster submissions is Friday 8, April 2011.
International Conference & Exhibition on Virology Dates: 5 - 7 September 2011 Venue: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Website: http://www.omicsonline.org/virology2011/ Operated by:Editors-Journal of Antivirals & Antiretrovirals and Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research Hosting Organization: OMICS Publishing Group
Currently, we are involved in organizing Annual “International Conference & Exhibition on Virology", will be held during 5-7 September 2011 Baltimore, USA. The main theme of the Virology-2011 is "Novel Therapeutic Strategies in Virology".Virology-2011 is a specially designed cluster conference, which covers a wide range of critically important sessions in basic virology research to Advances in Cancer, Agriculture, Veterinary and Clinical research.
The Centre for International Mobility CIMO invites applications from Russian and Ukrainian postgraduate students for participation in the 15th Winter School organized during 7 - 12 March 2011 at Tvärminne zoological station. of the University of Helsinki.
The goal of the Winter School is to enhance the mobility of young researchers and postgraduate students between Finland and the participating countries and to increase the cooperation between the universities.
Before applying for participation in the 15th Winter School, the applicants are expected to contact one or more scientists/research group leaders at Finnish universities to discuss a possible project with them. Expression of interest by the Finnish host will be considered an advantage during the selection process.
Those Winter School participants who will be invited to Finland after the Winter School by Finnish research teams will be offered a scholarship from the CIMO Fellowship programme.
The invited participants of the Winter School will be expected to come to work or study in Finland for 3 to 18 months. In 2010, the monthly amount of scholarship was 1200 euro.
The 15th CIMO Winter School is multidisciplinary - not for a particular, narrow field of science, but rather for a scientific topic. This time, the school focuses on chemistry for life sciences in its many aspects embracing topics from chemistry and biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology and computer science.
Applications from related fields, such as chemistry and biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, physiology, biophysics, psychology, public health and nutrition, medicine and biomedicine, etc. are welcome.
The school tends to stimulate active participation and discussion. The untraditional working method has been specially developed for the Winter School and it aims at enhancing the strength of participants? own personal expertise, problem-solving capabilities, scientific presentation skills and creative mind.
More detailed information about the scientific programme as well as teachers will be published in September.
Written applications for participation are welcome from Russian and Ukrainian postgraduate students. The applicants must be citizens of Russia or Ukraine and not over 35 years of age. Applications are not accepted from those who have participated in one of the previous Winter Schools. The application form and instructions can be found on CIMO's website (www.cimo.fi | In English).
The deadline for applications is 22 October 2010. The complete paper versions of applications should reach CIMO by that date. Financial assistance/grants
No participation fee is charged from the participants. Accommodation in student halls of residence and meals at course site are covered by CIMO. CIMO will also award a travel grant covering partial expense of the participants travel between their home town and Helsinki.
From Darwin to Evo-Devo The Symposium in honor of the 150th anniversary of Darwin's "The Origin of Species"
2009 will mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species (Nov. 24th 1859). To honor and celebrate this event The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology will host internationally-renown scientists from inside and outside Israel working at the interface of evolution and other life sciences fields, including molecular, genetic, ecological, bacterial, botanical, zoological, as well as human aspects of evolution.
The Centre for International Mobility CIMO invites applications from Russian and Ukrainian postgraduate students for participation in the 14th Winter School organized during 8 - 14 March 2010 at Tvärminne zoological station of the University of Helsinki.
Those Winter School participants who will be invited to Finland after the Winter School by Finnish research teams will be offered a scholarship from the CIMO Fellowship programme. The invited participants of the Winter School will be expected to come to work or study in Finland for 3 to 18 months. In 2009, the monthly amount of scholarship was 1200 euro.
No participation fee is charged from the participants. Accommodation in student halls of residence and meals at course site are covered by CIMO. CIMO will also award a travel grant covering partial expense of the participants’ travel between their home town and Helsinki.
Applications from other related fields, such as molecular and cell biology, physiology, biophysics, psychology, public health, medicine and biomedicine, etc. are welcome.
The school tends to stimulate active participation and discussion. The untraditional working method has been specially developed for the Winter School and it aims at enhancing the strength of participants’ own personal expertise, problem-solving capabilities, scientific presentation skills and creative mind.
The deadline for applications is 23 October 2009. The complete paper versions of applications should reach CIMO by that date.
The application form and instructions can be found on CIMO’s website (www.cimo.fi | In English).