[BioC] BioInfoSummer2006

Sylvain FORET sylvain.foret at rsbs.anu.edu.au
Mon Sep 25 05:09:28 CEST 2006


		BioInfoSummer2006
   Bioinformatics Summer Symposium 4-8 December 2006 
        Centre for Bioinformation Science,
         Australian National University.
		Canberra, AUSTRALIA

THEME: Recent Discoveries and New Challenges 

BioInfoSummer combines research and teaching in bioinformatics
* A summer school for students and researchers new to bioinformatics
* Introductory lectures in biology on Monday 4 December 2006
* Introductory lectures in bioinformatics topics
	every morning 5 - 8 December 2006 
* Keynote speakers on current research topics and contributed papers 
  in the afternoon

Travel Scholarships available: 
* for students (honours, master, PhD) and early career academics from 
  Australia and New Zealand
* for students and early career academics from Asia and Latin America
* partial subsidy for students and early career academics from places
  other than the above (e.g., Europe and North America), of up to A$1000 
* accommodation subsidy for students whose institution belongs to PRIMA

Topics:
* Monday:    Introductory lectures in biology (no research papers)
* Tuesday:   Sequence to Structure
* Wednesday: Comparative Genomics
* Thursday:    Analysis of Gene Expression
* Friday:  Regulatory Networks

Keynote Speakers:
* Prof Anna Tramontano (Università di Roma, "La Sapienza", Italy)
* A/Prof Susan Holmes (Stanford University, USA)
* A/Prof Robert Gentleman (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre, USA) 
* Dr Hidde de Jong (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France)

Lecturers:
* Dr Bruno Gaeta (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
* Dr Warren Kaplan (Garvan Institute, Sydney)
* Dr Lars Jermiin (University of Sydney)
* Prof Geoff McLachlan (University of Queensland, Brisbane)
* Dr Yvonne Pittelkow (Australian National University)
* Prof Terry Speed (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne and
  University of California, Berkeley, USA)

For more information including registration details
and guidelines for applying for travel scholarships
see the BioInfo Summer Web Page:
http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/events/BioInfoSummer06/

Queries: bioinfosummer at yin.anu.edu.au 
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