EN CHILE REALIZARON CURSO DE ANALISIS FILOGENETICO

ESTUDIANTES DE TODO CHILE-REALIZARON CURSO DE ANALISIS FILOGENETICO DE SECUENCIAS DE ADN

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Universidad Austral de Chile

Actividad se llevo a cabo en la Universidad Austral de Chile en el marco de un proyecto Fondecyt de Incentivo a la Colaboración Internacional.

Entre el 13 y el 17 de enero, 2009 se realizó en la sala Universia de la Universidad Austral de Chile el Curso-Taller "Análisis Filogenético de Secuencias del ADN", dictado por el Dr. Marcos Pérez Losada, académico de la Universidad Brigham Young, de Utah, USA.

Este curso, que se impartió a 25 estudiantes de pre y postgrado de la UACh y otras universidades del país, fue organizado por los Dres. Milton Gallardo y José Núñez, en el contexto del Proyecto Fondecyt de Incentivo a la Colaboración Internacional. Contó además, con el auspicio de la DID-UACh y el Decanato de la Facultad de Ciencias.

Durante las 60 horas del taller, los alumnos aprendieron el manejo de bases de datos de Genbank, edición de secuencias, selección de modelos de sustitución nucleotídica, reconstrucción filogenética, edición de los árboles filogenéticos y estimación del tiempo de divergencia entre taxones. La actividad finalizó con la entrega de certificados de asistencia.

Edición: Universia / PV

Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics, Seattle, 2009

Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics, Seattle, 2009 - General Information

The 2009 Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics will be held in the South Campus Center of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. June 15 - July 1, 2009.

A map showing this location is can be found here.

The Institute consists of a series of two-and-a-half day workshops designed to introduce geneticists to modern methods of statistical analysis and to introduce statisticians to the statistical challenges posed by modern genetic data. Prerequisites are minimal, and the modular nature of the Institute enables participants to design a program best suited to their backgrounds and interests. Most participants take two or three modules.

Individuals attending the Institute will receive certificates of course completion in recognition of their participation.

In 2009 there will be three concurrent Institutes in Seattle and a European Institute in Liège, Belgium. Details about the Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling for Infectious Diseases in Seattle, June 15-July 1; the Summer Institute in Public Health Genomics in Seattle, June 22-26; and the European Institute in Statistical Genetics in Liège, August 31-September 9, are available online via the Summer Institutes website: http://www.biostat.washington.edu/suminst. Registration for all four Institutes is available only online via each Institute’s website. Links to the individual Institutes are listed via the Summer Institutes website: http://www.biostat.washington.edu/suminst.

Lords debate systematics and taxonomy report

26 March 2009

Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, Chairman of the Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee on Systematics and Taxonomy, opened the debate on 25 March in the Grand Committee of the House of Lords, on the report by the Committee and the Government's response to the report.

• Lords Hansard: Systematics and Taxonomy (S&TC Reports)
• Report: Systematics and Taxonomy: Follow-up
• Report: Systematics and Taxonomy Follow-up: Government Response
• Parliament News: Committee reassert call for systematic biology support
• House of Lords Science and Technology Committee

Lords Select Committee reports are generally discussed either on the floor of the House (in the Chamber) or in Grand Committee. Any Member of the Lords can take part and a minister responds for the Government. The debate usually takes place once the Government has formally responded to the committee's recommendations.