The International AIDS Society (IAS), in partnership with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the NIH-supported Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR), launched a new round of the joint research grant programme, Creative and Novel Ideas in HIV Research (CNIHR).

The CNIHR programme supports projects intended to advance the scientific understanding of HIV by exploring new approaches to pressing scientific questions on such issues as the long-term survival of individuals with HIV infection, mechanisms behind establishment of viral reservoirs, new approaches for the prevention of HIV transmission, and innovative models of health care delivery. It is designed to promote innovative research and new ideas from early-stage investigators whose primary focus has previously been in fields of scientific inquiry other than HIV/AIDS. It aims at recruiting and training tomorrow’s leading HIV researchers from across many areas of science, whose work will benefit not only HIV, but other fields of research as well.

The first step of the competitive application process is open on the CNIHR website (www.cnihr.org) and will close on 17 October 2011. Applicants will be asked to complete a two-step process to assess the quality of their research projects. Awardees will be selected by mid-April 2012.

Successful applicants will be invited to the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), in Washington D.C. 22-27 July 2012, where they will be officially awarded. They will also have the opportunity to attend an HIV orientation seminar with leading experts and take part in a networking session during the conference.

For more information about this programme:
CNIHR 2012 Round Announcement
CNIHR grant website: www.cnihr.org

Information on 2010 awardees: www.iasociety.org/Default.aspx?pageId=381

Contact: info@cnihr.org

16thCIMO WINTER SCHOOL
"Building blocks of life: from biomaterials to living organisms"

12 - 17 March 2012, Finland

The Centre for International Mobility CIMO invites applications from Russian and Ukrainian postgraduate students for participation in the 16th Winter School organized during 12 - 17 March 2012 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 16th 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 2011, the monthly amount of scholarship was 1200 euro.The Centre for International Mobility CIMO invites applications from Russian and Ukrainian postgraduate students for participation in the 16th Winter School organized during 12 - 17 March 2012 at Tvärminne zoological station of the University of Helsinki (http://luoto.tvarminne.helsinki.fi).

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 2011, the monthly amount of scholarship was 1200 euro.


http://www.cimo.fi/news/101/1/first_call_f...2-17_march_2012

Deadline for the applications is 21 October 2011.


The final announcement with information about the teaching staff will be posted on the website in September.

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.

http://www.phenodays.com/

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Dear Colleague:

Science Careers is conducting a survey of postdoc supervisors to learn more about what makes for a successful postdoc experience and to explore industry trends. The overall results of this survey will be published in the 26 August 2011 issue of Science.

If you supervise postdocs, would you please help us by taking our survey, which takes about 20 to 25 minutes to complete? In return, we'll enter your name in a drawing for one of 10 $50 Amazon gift certificates. All individual survey responses will be kept strictly confidential.

To participate in this online survey (and enter our drawing) please go to http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er.aspx?s=19...d81e4b47ea17862

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Regards,

Beth Rosner
Publisher, Science
E-mail: mailto:ScienceSurveys@aaas.org

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.

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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

6. Ecological perspectives


We have now 10 available rooms [20 euros/night (single room) or 31 euros/night (twin room) including breakfast], but we have to confirm our reservation very quickly. These rooms are located at walking distance (5-10 min) from the main train station. Regular buses are available from the train station to the conference center during the day (25-30 min). You are strongly encouraged to manifest your interest for this accommodation possibility as early as possible by sending an email to isepep4©univ-rennes1.fr


Please visit our website (http://isepep4.univ-rennes1.fr/news.php) for additional information. It will be regularly updated.

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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

Please submit your abstract by online at http://omicsonline.org/virology2011/abstract.php
(or) by e-mail to virology2011@omicsonline.org
fax to +1-650-618-1414.

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.

http://www.omicsonline.org/biotechnology2011/

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).

Participants must register online at
http://mccmb.genebee.msu.ru/2011/index.php?id=registration
The deadline for online registration is July 1.

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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.

http://www.molecularinsectscience.com/index.html

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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.

A wide range of journals included in free access campaigns!

We are also offering free access to journals from related areas that may be of interest to you too!

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To celebrate Open Access Week (18-24 October), our entire journal archive is completely free to access;
it will remain free to access until the end of the Royal Society's 350th anniversary year on 30 November 2010.

Our archive dates back to 1665 and contains more than 66,000 articles, from the first ever article published in the world's first science journal Philosophical Transactions, to the most recent cross-disciplinary article published in our youngest journal Interface Focus.

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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.

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In today's ScienceExpress, researchers led by J. Craig Venter report that they have built a genome from scratch and used it to control a cell. The breakthrough—$40 million and more than a decade in the making—is a critical milestone in the burgeoning field of synthetic genomics. But it also raises important scientific and ethical questions.

If you've got questions of your own, we want to hear them. Type your queries here:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010...kthrough-s.html

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Dear Scientist,

JoVE, the first PubMed-indexed visualized methods journal, has published its 450th video article. We invite you to publish your experimental methods in our journal to join your colleagues from Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, NIH and other leading institutions that previously published in JoVE. Our film professionals are ready to come to your lab and film your procedures - please reply to this email or visit instructions to authors if you are interested.

Below are recently published articles in their respective fields. We have made them available to you without the need for a subscription.

Developmental Biology:
Lens Transplantation in Zebrafish and its Application in the Analysis of Eye Mutants
Yan Zhang, Kyle McCulloch, Jarema Malicki
Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Neuroscience:
Live Imaging of Glial Cell Migration in the Drosophila Eye Imaginal Disc
Patrick Cafferty, Xiaojun Xie, Kristen Browne, Vanessa Auld
Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia

Psychology:
Exploring Cognitive Functions in Babies, Children & Adults with Near Infrared Spectroscopy
Mark Shalinsky, Iouila Kovelman, Melody Berens, Laura-Ann Petitto
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto

Plant Biology:
Mating and Tetrad Separation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for Genetic Analysis
Xingshan Jiang, David Stern
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University

I hope that you find JoVE useful for your research and studies, and will consider publishing with us.

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Invitation to: NATO ASI 10th Summer School, Erice, Sicily; June 22-July 2, 2010

ERICE-SICILY: 22 June – 2 July 2010
URL: http://smrl.stanford.edu/erice2010/
NATO Advanced Study Institute
PURPOSE OF THE COURSE:
The course will provide an overview of physical and structural methods in biology and will present
technologies related to pathogen detection and treatment. Both basic principles and concrete examples will
be presented in a long course format.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Jody Puglisi; Alexander Arseniev;
Angela Gronenborn; Gian Luigi Rossi; Elisabetta Viani
LECTURERS:
A. ARSENIEV, Russian Academy of Sciences, RU; A. BRUNGER, Stanford University School of
Medicine, US; M. DELEPIERRE, Institute Pasteur, Paris, FR; R. EFREMOV, Russian Academy of Sciences,
RU; M. EHRENBERG, University of Uppsala, SE; A. GRONENBORN, University of Pittsburgh, US; D.
LILLEY, University of Dundee, UK; A. McPHERSON, UC Irvine, US; H. OSCHKINAT, Institute of
Molecular Pharmacology, GE; J.D. PUGLISI, Stanford University School of Medicine, US; G.L. ROSSI,
University of Parma, IT; P. SELENKO, Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, GE; A. SHIVANYUK,
National University of Kiev, UA; B. SYKES, University of Alberta, CA; A. YONATH, Weizmann Institute
of Science, IL.
FEE: 1,100 Euro. Fee includes full board and lodging at the Ettore Majorana Centre.
INQUIRIES & APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Ms. Manolia Margaris – Administrative Director, manolia@stanford.edu
Tel: (1) 650/723-9151 ♦ Fax: (1) 650/723-8464
http://www.stanford.edu/~manolia/erice2010app.fb

Nordic-Russian Cooperation in Education and Research Preparatory Actions 2009
Call for proposals


This call for proposals has two parts. The main priority is to fund preparatory
cooperative activities between the Nordic countries and Northwest Russia at all
levels of education. The secondary part is to open possibilities for the
participation of Russian institutions in cooperation funded by the Nordplus
programme.

The call covers all levels of education from basic education and vocational
education to higher education and adult learning.

Thematic and other priorities largely follow the call for proposals in 2008,
which were based on a dialogue between the Nordic Council of Ministers and
representatives of authorities and the education sector in Russia.

Opening date for call is 22 October 2009.

The application deadline is 15 December 2009

The online application facility will be available no later than 30 October 2009
at www.siu.no.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to

Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak

for the discovery of

"how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicin...2009/press.html

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