From sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org Wed Jun 2 11:44:55 2010 From: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org (Sandra Borthwick) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:44:55 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] Job vacancy: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Cell Biology Message-ID: <4c0635fc.0e67f10a.4c0c.4753@mx.google.com> ______________________________________________ Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Cell Biology A 13.5 month position with a potential for further extension (start date October-November 2010) in computational cell biology is available in the group of Dr. Andrew B. Goryachev at the Centre for Systems Biology (CSBE), School of biological sciences, University of Edinburgh. An energetic, motivated and highly qualified researcher is required to spearhead the computational modeling effort in an international joint experiment-theory systems biology project to study cell polarity in budding yeast (Howell et al., Cell 139:731, 2009; Goryachev & Pokhilko, FEBS Lett. 582:1437, 2008). The incumbent will utilize published and novel experimental data to build detailed, realistic models of morphogenetic processes on a cell scale. Beyond the analysis of yeast molecular mechanisms, the project aims to reveal fundamental biophysical principles underlying self-organization of dynamic structures on biological membranes. Salary, up to GBP 35,000 per year, will be commensurate with the candidate's skills and experience. Collaborative nature of the project provides an opportunity for international travel. REQUIREMENTS: A solid background in modeling chemical or biochemical reactive systems is required. Expertise in pattern-formation in far-from-equilibrium reactive media is particularly welcome. Understanding of principles of cell biology and experience in spatio-temporal modeling of cellular processes are desirable. Candidate should possess strong programming skills and experience of scientific computing in major programming languages and/or Matlab. Excellent communication skills are a must. APPLICATION: Interested individuals should send inquires and applications directly to Dr. A. Goryachev (Andrew.Goryachev at ed.ac.uk). The position will be available from the 16th of October, 2010 and will remain open until filled. ___________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: Edinburgh University charitable status.txt URL: From dan.bolser at gmail.com Wed Jun 2 16:23:50 2010 From: dan.bolser at gmail.com (Dan Bolser) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:23:50 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] SOL2010: early registration extended until June 14th Message-ID: SOL2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE, DUNDEE SCOTLAND, September 5 ? 9 Dear Colleague The SOL2010 conference is approaching fast. Many thanks to those who have already registered it looks as if it will be an exciting meeting. We have decided to extend the Early Bird registration rate for two weeks only, until Monday June 14th 2010, so that those who have not yet done so can take advantage of the discounted rate. There will be no further extensions so if you want to save ?100 on the registration fee, please go the website and register now! https://reg.istrations.com/delegate/events/DNDSOL2010=20 Abstract submission can be found on this link: http://www.sol2010.org/Abstracts Accommodation Special rates have been arranged for conference guests at the conference hotel, the Apex City Quay and Spa, Dundee. Online Accommodation booking is available via this link (You will also be given the option to book your accommodation at the time of registration): https://www.conferencebookings.co.uk/delegate/DNDSOL2010 We look forward to welcoming you to Dundee in September. Glenn Bryan Gerard Bishop Graham Seymour ...and the rest of the SOL2010 team Please contact Anne Rendall if you have any enquiries email: SOL2010 at scri.ac.uk IEEE CBMS 2010 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems 2010 Perth, Australia, 12-15 October 2010 http://www.cbms2010.curtin.edu.au/ The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2010) is intended to provide an international forum for discussing the latest results in the field of computational medicine. The scientific program of CBMS 2010 will consist of invited keynote talks given by leading scientists in the field, and regular and special track sessions that cover a broad array of issues which relate computing to medicine. RELEVANT TOPICS Network and Telemedicine Systems Medical Databases & Information Systems Computer-Aided Diagnosis Medical Devices with Embedded Computers Bioinformatics in Medicine Software Systems in Medicine Pervasive Health Systems and Services Web-based Delivery of Medical Information Medical Image Segmentation & Compression Content Analysis of Biomedical Image Data Knowledge-Based & Decision Support Systems Hand-held Computing Applications in Medicine Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining Signal and Image Processing in Medicine Multimedia Biomedical Databases CBMS 2010 invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Many of the above listed topics are represented by corresponding Special Tracks, while others are solely covered by the general CBMS track. Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to one of the corresponding Special Tracks or to the general track if none of the special tracks is relevant. SPECIAL TRACKS ST1: Computational Proteomics and Genomics ST2: Knowledge Discovery and Decision Systems in Biomedicine ST3: Ontologies for Biomedical Systems ST4: HealthGrid & Cloud Computing ST5: Technology Enhanced Learning in Medical Education ST6: Intelligent Patient Management ST7: Data Streams in Healthcare ST8: Supporting Collaboration among Healthcare Workers ST9: Telemedicine ST10: Computer-Based Systems for Mental Health ST11: Image Informatics in Biomedical Research and Clinical Medicine ST12: e-Health SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers should be submitted electronically using EasyChair online submission system. The papers must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format and should not exceed the length of 6 (six) Letter-sized pages. LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates can be used when preparing the papers. Please, note that only PDF format of submissions is allowed. Submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbms2010 All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers is required to register and present the work at the conference; otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline for regular papers: 24 June 2010 Deadline for tutorial submission: 24 June 2010 Notification of acceptation for papers and tutorials: 2 Aug 2010 Final camera ready due: 2 Sep 2010 Author registration: 2 Sep 2010 INTENDED AUDIENCE Engineers, scientists, clinicians and managers involved in medical computing projects are encouraged to submit papers to the symposium and/or attend the symposium. The symposium provides its attendees with an opportunity to experience state-of-the-art research and development in a variety of topics directly and indirectly related to their own work. In addition to research papers, keynote speakers and tutorial sessions it provides participants with an opportunity to come up-to-date on important technological issues. The symposium encourages the participation of students engaged in research/development in computer-based medical systems. Organizing Committee GENERAL CHAIRS Tharam Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Daniel Rubin, National Center for Biomedical Ontologies, USA William Gallagher, University College Dublin, Ireland PROGRAM CHAIRS Amandeep Sidhu, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Alexey Tsymbal, Siemens, Germany PUBLICATION CHAIRS Mykola Pechenizkiy, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS Maja Hadzic, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Jake Chen, Indiana University, USA TUTORIAL CHAIRS Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia PUBLICITY CHAIRS Carolyn McGregor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Meifania Chen, Curtin University of Technology, Australia From sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org Wed Jun 9 10:52:02 2010 From: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org (Sandra Borthwick) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:52:02 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] SICSA workshop - Biomedical and E-Health Abstractions and Modelling In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SICSA workshop - Biomedical and E-Health Abstractions and Modelling Date: ?18th June 2010 Location: ?Royal Society of Edinburgh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Scottish Informatics and Computing Science Alliance (SICSA) is sponsoring a workshop on data abstraction and modelling in biomedical and e-health applications. The workshop will cover: ? ? ?Exploration of issues arising from different levels of abstraction in the collection of raw biomedical data and the analysis of, and reasoning over, these data sets. ? ? ?Fostering collaborations between the research groups involved in the collection, processing and storage of raw biomedical data and groups focusing on the representation and reasoning of knowledge that can be derived from this data. ? ? ?Encouragement of interaction between life science and computational research groups. Confirmed speakers: Rainer Breitling, SULSA Professor in Systems Biology, University of Glasgow Ian Simpson, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh Steve Marshall, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde Derek Long, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde PierLuigi Frisco, School of Mathmatical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University Wai Pang, Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology King?s College, University of Aberdeen For more information see programme http://www.sbforum.org/cmsimages/event_progs_10/SBF_SICSA-BEAMER_prog.pdf Registration details please see: http://www.sbforum.org/events.php?e_id=93 Thank you for your time, we look forward to seeing you on 18th June. -- Sandra Borthwick, Executive Assistant Scottish Bioinformatics Forum The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street Edinburgh EH2 2PQ Tel: ?+44 (0)131 240 2783 Fax: +44 (0)131 240 2786 email: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org www.sbforum.org 10th International Conference on Systems Biology Edinburgh, UK. 10th-15th October 2010 http://www.icsb-2010.net/ The SBF is a project of the RSE Scotland Foundation, Scottish Charity No. SC024636 The information contained in this e-mail is confidential, intended for the above named individual/s and may be legally privileged. This message may contain personal views which are not the views of the Foundation/Forum, unless specifically stated www.rsescotlandfoundation.org.uk ?www.sbforum.org -- Sandra Borthwick, Executive Assistant Scottish Bioinformatics Forum The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street Edinburgh EH2 2PQ Tel: +44 (0)131 240 2783 Fax: +44 (0)131 240 2786 email: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org www.sbforum.org 10th International Conference on Systems Biology Edinburgh, UK. 10th-15th October 2010 http://www.icsb-2010.net/ The SBF is a project of the RSE Scotland Foundation, Scottish Charity No. SC024636 The information contained in this e-mail is confidential, intended for the above named individual/s and may be legally privileged. This message may contain personal views which are not the views of the Foundation/Forum, unless specifically stated www.rsescotlandfoundation.org.uk www.sbforum.org From sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org Thu Jun 10 13:27:01 2010 From: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org (Sandra Borthwick) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:27:01 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] The Scottish Biosystem Modelling Network (SBMN) - networking evening Message-ID: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Scottish Biosystem Modelling Network (SBMN) - networking evening Date: 1st July 2010 Time: 4:30 pm Location: Room 4.40, The Informatics Forum, UoE, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Scottish Biosystem Modelling Network (SBMN) invite you to an informal gathering to celebrate the end of term and beginning of summer with food, drink, scientific posters and the opportunity to discuss latest developments with scientists from all around Scotland. The gathering will be held in the Informatics Forum at Edinburgh University http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/about/location, room 4.40 on July 1st 4:30-8pm. ** This event is free, though places are limited, so if you wish to attend, please register your name to assist us for catering purposes ** For more information and registration details please see http://www.sbforum.org/events.php Thanks for your time and we look forward to seeing you on the 1st July. best wishes Sandra -- Sandra Borthwick, Executive Assistant Scottish Bioinformatics Forum The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street Edinburgh EH2 2PQ Tel: +44 (0)131 240 2783 Fax: +44 (0)131 240 2786 email: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org www.sbforum.org 10th International Conference on Systems Biology Edinburgh, UK. 10th-15th October 2010 http://www.icsb-2010.net/ The SBF is a project of the RSE Scotland Foundation, Scottish Charity No. SC024636 The information contained in this e-mail is confidential, intended for the above named individual/s and may be legally privileged. This message may contain personal views which are not the views of the Foundation/Forum, unless specifically stated www.rsescotlandfoundation.org.uk www.sbforum.org From anthony.goldbloom at kaggle.com Fri Jun 18 07:13:02 2010 From: anthony.goldbloom at kaggle.com (Anthony Goldbloom | Kaggle) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:13:02 +1000 Subject: [Sbforum-general] What has bioinformatics ever done for us? Message-ID: <5BD2BE31-9C87-499F-A704-A5D9F97F3899@kaggle.com> Apologies for cross posting. I'm passing this around the bioinformatics community as I think it's an interesting initiative. May even help us towards a tighter definition of bioinformatics. A British bioinformatician wants to open discussion about the greatest biological discovery made possible by bioinformatics. He has just launched a "brainstorming competition" with a small cash prize to stoke discussion. Kaggle is hosting the "brainstorming competition" at: http://kaggle.com/blog/2010/06/17/%EF%BB%BFwhat-has-bioinformatics-ever-done-for-us Hopefully members of this mailing list can contribute suggestions. Anthony From ces at cs.stir.ac.uk Sat Jun 19 15:10:07 2010 From: ces at cs.stir.ac.uk (Carron Shankland) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:10:07 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] Multi-scale modelling of Biological Systems: Final Call for Participation Message-ID: <4C1CCFBF.2000509@cs.stir.ac.uk> Final Call for Participation MULTI-SCALE MODELLING OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS 5-6th July 2010 University of Stirling Sponsored by EPSRC Two days of talks about modelling a range of biological systems at different scales (e.g. cellular, individual based, population based). See the draft programme on the Eventbrite page below. The workshop brings together an exciting mix of biologists, mathematician and computer scientists to consider the problem of relating models at different scales. How can you miss it? INVITED SPEAKERS Process Algebra for Epidemiological and Ecological Modelling Federica Ciocchetta (The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Center for Computational and Systems Biology) Data Driven Network Modelling for Epidemiology Eiko Yoneki (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) REGISTRATION Registration is now open via Eventbrite: http://mmbs2010.eventbrite.com The password for the event is "models". There are still a few free places left. Charges once these are gone are: Standard (non-student): ?100 Standard (student): ?80 Please forward this message on to anyone who you think may be interested. Many thanks and looking forward to seeing you there Organisers: Carron Shankland and Rachel Norman. -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org Mon Jun 21 12:21:56 2010 From: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org (Sandra Borthwick) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:21:56 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] The Scottish Biosystem Modelling Network (SBMN) - networking evening In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ** Reminder - SBMN networking evening** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Scottish Biosystem Modelling Network (SBMN) - networking evening Date: 1st July 2010 Time: 4:30 pm Location: Room 4.40, The Informatics Forum, UoE, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Scottish Biosystem Modelling Network (SBMN) invite you to an informal gathering to celebrate the end of term and beginning of summer with food, drink, scientific posters and the opportunity to discuss latest developments with scientists from all around Scotland. The gathering will be held in the Informatics Forum at Edinburgh University http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/about/location, room 4.40 on July 1st ?4:30-8pm. ** ?This event is free, though places are limited, so if you wish to attend, please register your name to assist us for catering purposes ** For more information and registration details please see http://www.sbforum.org/events.php Thanks for your time and we look forward to seeing you on the 1st July. best wishes Sandra -- Sandra Borthwick, Executive Assistant Scottish Bioinformatics Forum The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street Edinburgh EH2 2PQ Tel: ?+44 (0)131 240 2783 Fax: +44 (0)131 240 2786 email: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org www.sbforum.org 10th International Conference on Systems Biology Edinburgh, UK. 10th-15th October 2010 http://www.icsb-2010.net/ The SBF is a project of the RSE Scotland Foundation, Scottish Charity No. SC024636 The information contained in this e-mail is confidential, intended for the above named individual/s and may be legally privileged. This message may contain personal views which are not the views of the Foundation/Forum, unless specifically stated www.rsescotlandfoundation.org.uk ?www.sbforum.org -- Sandra Borthwick, Executive Assistant Scottish Bioinformatics Forum The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street Edinburgh EH2 2PQ Tel: +44 (0)131 240 2783 Fax: +44 (0)131 240 2786 email: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org www.sbforum.org 10th International Conference on Systems Biology Edinburgh, UK. 10th-15th October 2010 http://www.icsb-2010.net/ The SBF is a project of the RSE Scotland Foundation, Scottish Charity No. SC024636 The information contained in this e-mail is confidential, intended for the above named individual/s and may be legally privileged. This message may contain personal views which are not the views of the Foundation/Forum, unless specifically stated www.rsescotlandfoundation.org.uk www.sbforum.org From d.m.a.martin at dundee.ac.uk Tue Jun 29 13:39:54 2010 From: d.m.a.martin at dundee.ac.uk (David Martin) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:39:54 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] Fwd: Peruvian Bioinformatician wanted Message-ID: <4C29F7AA020000E00000E7AE@ia-gw-6.dundee.ac.uk> Looking for peruvian bioinformatician Post for a peruvian bioinformatician (due to funding restrictions, peruvian nationality is needed) Bioinform?tico peruano con inter?s en regresar al Per? y acogerse al financiamiento de re-insercion del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y tecnologia Buscamos un Bioinform?tico que maneje y analice data generada por secuenciadores de ADN de alto d?bito. Sus responsabilidades incluir?n: Supervisi?n del mantenimiento de un servidor de an?lisis. Curaci?n de los datos de secuencia, control de calidad de los datos, anotaci?n y comunicaci?n con los diversos investigadores. Los candidatos deber?n tener una maestr?a o PhD en Ciencias biol?gicas, ciencias de la computaci?n o ?rea relacionada. Se estimula la postulaci?n de cient?ficos que vengan de otras disciplinas (ingenier?a, f?sica, matem?ticas, biof?sica, estad?stica) con habilidades en inform?tica y un fuerte inter?s en problemas biol?gicos. Los candidatos deben tener experiencia en sistemas operativos Unix/Linux, deben ser h?biles en el uso de bases de datos MySQL, tener muy buen conocimiento de programaci?n y lenguajes de scripting Java, C++ y Perl (Bioperl). Conocimientos de lenguajes estad?sticos como R es un plus. Experiencia previa en bioinform?tica, en particular en an?lisis de datos de secuenciamiento es un plus. Se pide excelente conocimiento del idioma ingles. Este puesto promete ser sumamente interesante y con muchos retos. La persona elegida se integrar? a un equipo naciente de cient?ficos peruanos repatriados en la recientemente conformada unidad de Gen?mica. Ser? parte integrante del equipo de secuenciamiento del genoma de la papa. Como actividades anexas, ?l o ella, tendr? la oportunidad de crear una nueva disciplina en Bioinform?tica en la UPCH. Se cuenta con un servidor Quad-core Intel Xeon E5405 2.0GHz. y 48GB de Memoria- IBM certificado DDR2 667MHz y 2.6 Tb de DD, otro servidor peque?o con procesador Intel Core2 QUAD Q6600/2.4ghz y 2GB de memoria - Marca Kingston DDR2 667 MHz y DD de 400 Gb. Adem?s de estaciones de trabajo adecuadas. Se ofrece dos asistentes, a nivel BSc. con experiencia en bioinform?tica para trabajar en el proyecto genoma y un t?cnico en sistemas. Enviar su CV a: Gisella Orjeda Jefe de la Unidad de Genomica Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia gisella.orjeda at upch.edu.pe Telf.: +51 1 319 0000 anexo 2701 Celular: +51 1 997 58 29 24 -- David Martin PhD College of Life Sciences University of Dundee 01382 388704 The University of Dundee is a Scottish Registered Charity, No. SC015096. ************************************************************ Please consider the environment. Do you really need to print this email? The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish charity, No: SC015096 From kemp at chalmers.se Wed Jun 30 23:07:23 2010 From: kemp at chalmers.se (Graham Kemp) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:07:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sbforum-general] DILS, new deadline for poster/demo papers, 1 August Message-ID: ----------------------------------- CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS ----------------------------------- Seventh International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2010) 25-27 August, 2010 Gothenburg, Sweden http://www.chalmers.se/cse/dils2010/ The development and increasingly widespread deployment of high throughput experimental methods in the life sciences is giving rise to numerous large, complex and valuable data resources. This foundation of experimental data underpins the systematic study of organisms and diseases, which increasingly depend on the development of models of biological systems. The development of these models often requires integration of diverse experimental data resources; once constructed, the models themselves become data and present new integration challenges for tasks such as interpretation, validation and comparison. Topics of Interest ------------------ The DILS conference provides a forum for the discussion of emerging challenges for data integration in the life sciences, and the techniques that seek to address them. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Architectures and data management techniques for the life sciences - Query processing and optimization for biological data - Biological Data sharing and update propagation - Query formulation assistance for scientists - Modeling of life sciences data - Biological Metadata management - Annotation in scientific data integration - Provenance modeling and management for the life sciences - Scientific Workflows and analysis pipelines - Laboratory information management systems in biology - Biological data quality and data cleaning - Life sciences ontologies - Semantic web for the life sciences - Mining integrated life sciences data - Text mining in the life science literature - Machine learning in data integration in the life sciences - Grid Computing and Grid technologies for the life sciences - System prototypes for biology - Commercial solutions in the life sciences - Integration challenges presented by new kinds of biological data - Scientific results arising from innovative data integration solutions Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are invited to submit poster and system demonstration papers (2-4 pages in the LNCS format) by 1 August 2010. Selected poster and system demonstration papers papers will be included in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pending approval. Please submit your paper using the DILS 2010 EasyChair site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dils2010