Bioinformatics: Computer Methods in Molecular Biology

Practical Course
21-26 June, 2010.
“Bioinformatics: Computer Methods in Molecular Biology”
Trieste, Italy

Organiser: Sándor Pongor (ICGEB, Trieste, Italy)
Topics

• Genome and proteome databases
• Analysis of protein and DNA sequences
• Similarity searching, alignments
• Sequence phylogeny
• WWW-based services
• Genome projects, functional genomics

Participants must have a basic working knowledge of biochemistry and molecular biology, a basic familiarity with computer uses and a need for DNA or protein sequence analysis for their ongoing research. Preference will be given to Ph.D. students and junior scientists below the age of 35 years. Registration for the course is limited to 30 participants.

A limited number of grants, covering accommodation (twin share) and local hospitality for the duration of the Course, are available to nationals of ICGEB Member States*.
Travel is NOT funded. Please note that there is no registration fee.
Closing date
for applications 28 January 2010
Contact Submit your participation form, curriculum vitae in English and a short list of publications (if any) to:
ICGEB - Conferences and Meetings, Padriciano 99, I-34149 Trieste, Italy.
Tel: +39-040-3757333; Fax: +39-040-226555; E-mail: courses@icgeb.org

website: http://www.icgeb.org/meetings-2010.html
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*ICGEB Member States (@ 5th January 2009 – refer to URL http://www.icgeb.org/member-states.html for updates)
Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, FYR Macedonia, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Lybian Arab Jamahiriya, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Trinidad and
Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela, Viet Nam

Phylogeny and diversity of land plants and fungi

Course objective

The goal is to gain basic knowledge of recently established phylogenetic lineages in the land plants and fungi and based thereon of essential understanding of modern insights in the morphological characterization, the origin and evolutionary development of the main clades and the angiosperm pollen.
The following items will be discussed and demonstrated:

• – Changing views on phylogenetic relations within the land plants and fungi
  
• – Overview of morphological and taxonomic diversity and morphological characterization of the presently accepted main clades
  
• – Present insights in and disputes over key innovations, and functional characterizations (adaptations)
  
• – State of the art overview of the various uses by mankind of the taxa and of the applications of these fields of knowledge
  

Remarks

Language: Dutch (English in case foreign MSc-students participate).

Coordinator

Dr.M.Roos,

Time table

Sept. 22-26: Mosses and Ferns
Sept. 29 – Oct. 2: Angiosperm pollen
Oct. 6-10: Fungi

Website: http://studiegids.leidenuniv.nl/en/courses/show/16935/phylogeny-and-diversity-of-land-plants-and-fungi

4th Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny

4th Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny,
September 18 - 20, 2009

The Dresden Meetings on Insect Phylogeny are dedicated to a broad variety of topics concerning phylogeny reconstruction in Insecta; this includes both the interordinal and intraordinal levels, both morphological and molecular work, and both extant and fossil taxa, as well as occasional methodological contributions. The 4th Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny (2009) will have a strong focus on key taxa and key characters insects; this will also include some presentations on fossil key taxa. The about 30 oral contributions, all in English, will be presented by invited high-profile specialists.

Organized by

Klaus-Dieter Klass (Museum für Tierkunde Dresden)
Niels Peder Kristensen (Zoological Museum Copenhagen)

Contact: insectphyl2009 (at) snsd.de - Please copy and paste this addess, replace "(at)" by "@"