Workshop on "Affinity Proteomics: 3rd ESF Workshop on Ligand Binders Against the Human Proteome" - Alpbach, Austria - 13-16 March 2007
Convenors: Stefan Dübel (DE), Ulf Landegren (SE), Cheryl Smythe (UK), Oda Stoevesandt (UK) and Mike Taussig (UK)
The aims of the workshop were to review the requirements of tools, binding molecules and technologies for European affinity proteomics programmes. Previous meetings funded by the ESF Functional Genomics programme have been highly successful and influential in defining the field and have led to the EC ProteomeBinders coordination action which will be co-funding this workshop.
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Workshop on "Non-Protein-Coding RNA" - Carry-le-Rouet, France - 17-19 March 2007
Convenors: Jürgen Brosius (DE), Carole Charlier (BE), Martin Crespi (FR), Witold Filipowicz (CH), Renee Schroeder (AT), Herve Vaucheret (FR), Gerhart Wagner (SE) and Eric Wiemer (NL)
RNAs that do not encode protein (npcRNAs) are important players in cellular life. European scientists have made excellent contributions to this burgeoning field. In order to further bundle activities and to generate more synergy in the future, this meeting will bring together members from currently EU sponsored STREPs and other colleagues who wish to exchange their scientific activities and broaden their scientific interactions.
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Workshop on "2nd BioCreative Challenge Evaluation: Assessment of Text Mining Methods in Molecular Biology" - Madrid, Spain - 23-25 April 2007
Convenors: Lynette Hirschman (US), Martin Krallinger (ES) and Alfonso Valencia (ES)
The BioCreAtIvE challenge provides a community-based approach to evaluate the current state of biomedical text mining tools. Its main aims are to pose biological relevant tasks resulting in Gold Standard data collections as well as in biological relevant applications with practical use for both the biology and bioinformatics communities.
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Workshop on "Mining of High-Throughput Data in Functional Genomics" - Ulster, Ireland - 8-9 May 2007
Convenors: Daniel P. Berrar (Northern Ireland) and Werner Dubitzky (Northern Ireland)
The workshop will focus on data mining methods and methodolgies for the analysis of high-throughput data in functional genomics. Particular emphasis is placed on novel methodologies that work within the systems biology framework facilitating the understanding of complex biological mechanisms, multi-gene function and the transcriptome. Each contribution is expected to demonstrate the presented techniques on the basis of an actual case study in research or development.
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School on "European Institute in Statistical Genetics 2007" - Liège, Belgium - 3-12 September 2007
Convenor: Michel Georges (BE)
The Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics is a world re-knowned advanced course in statistical genetics. The objectives are to introduce biologists to statistical analysis of genomic data and to introduce statisticians to statistical problems arising in modern genomics. The programme is composed of a series of 2 1/2 day modules covering evolving topics in biostatistics and bioinformatics.
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Workshop on "Novel Approaches to Study of Kinase and GTPase Signaling" - Arcachon, France - 5-8 September 2007
Convenors: Eric Chevet (FR), Antoine de Daruvar (FR) and Violaine Moreau (FR)
The objective will be to discuss how the use of powerful new technological approaches such as proteomics or siRNA can lead to the discovery of new trends/concepts in signal transduction analyses with focus/emphasis on the necessity of nucleotide tri-phosphate hydrolysis for these pathways to operate. This represents a novel initiative to give an alternative look at signal transduction pathways.
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"4th Integrative Bioinformatics" Conference - Ghent, Belgium - 10-12 September 2007
Convenors: Ralf Hofestaedt (DE), Jacob Koehler (UK) and Martin Kuiper (BE)
In the current post genomic era, the functional characterisation of genes is more challenging than the actual sequencing. A combination of many new high throughput techniques is used to integrate and extract information from large quantity of data, shifting the research focus of bioinformatics from sequence analysis techniques to Integrative Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, enabling Systems Biology.
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Conference on "Symbiosis: 13th European Congress on Biotechnology - Functional Genomics and Technology Symposium" - Barcelona, Spain - 16-19 September 2007
Convenor: Mike Taussig (UK)
This symposium forms part of the larger 13th ECB conference which has 5 main themes: Functional Genomics & Technology, Industrial Biotechnology, SymBIOsiS – Science, Industry & Society, Health & Medicine, Green Biotechnology. The Functional Genomics & Technology Symposium will cover a range of topics from high-throughput reagent-based tools and technologies to comparative genomics, systems biology and nanotechnology.
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ESF-UB European Conference on "Synthetic Biology (ECSB): Design, Programming and Optimisation of Biological Systems - Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain - 24-29 November 2007
Convenors: Victor de Lorenzo (ES), Natalio Krasnogor (UK), Sven Panke (CH) and Alfonso Valencia (ES)
Synthetic Biology seeks to exploit methods that are regularly used within computational sciences and engineering disciplines to help biologists to build “designer” biological entities that could benefit society (e.g. environmental remediation, healthcare strategies, etc). It is with this goal in mind that this conference will seek to collect and showcase world-class interdisciplinary research in Synthetic Biology.
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