Workshop on "Personalised Medicine for the European Citizens" - Luxembourg City, Luxembourg - 13-14 January 2011
Convenor: Carsten Carlberg (LU)
Almost all diseases have a genetic component: we are born with a genome that imbues us with a certain risk of disease. The earlier we can detect and quantify this risk, the earlier we can intervene. The rapid developments in biomedical research can thus enable a revolution in health care. The challenges ahead are significant, and it is becoming clear that regulatory systems operate in a far more complex ways than we might have previously thought. Nevertheless, these technologies could lead to innovative therapies, limit adverse effects of treatments, increase the quality of clinical care, create an optimal fit between a patient and a treatment, and decrease the costs of healthcare. This workshop is aimed at identifying the essentially required ingredients and structure for a foresight effort in this area.
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Workshop on "Affinity Proteomics" - Alpbach, Austria - 14-16 March 2011
Convenors: Cheryl Smythe (UK) and Mike Taussig (UK)
The aims of this workshop will be to review state-of-the-art technologies for European and worldwide affinity proteomics programmes. Previous meetings on this topic funded by the ESF Functional Genomics Programme have been highly influential in defining the field, leading firstly to the EC ProteomeBinders Coordination Action (recently ended) and a major practical follow-on project, AFFINOMICS, which will be represented at the workshop.
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Wilhelm Hohannsen Symposium on "The Impact of Deep Sequencing on the Gene, Genotype and Phenotype Concepts" - Copenhagen, Denmark - 21-23 March 2011
Convenor: Niels Tommerup (DK)
A century for the terms gene, genotype and phenotype (Wilhelm Johannsen 1909) will be celebrated by sessions focussing on the impact that high-throughput sequencing technologies will have on the concept of genes including non-coding genes, on the establishment of novel genotype- phenotype relationships, dissection of complex inheritance patterns, and development of systems biology tools and functional models of complex disorders.
Conference on "Multilevel Interpretation of Cancer Genome Data" - Madrid, Spain - 27-29 March 2011
Convenors: Soren Brunak (DK), Stephen J. Chanock (US), Nuria Malats (ES), Chris Sander (US) and Alfonso Valencia (ES)
The main scientific topic of the meeting is the use of information on biological networks. Experts in lead omics-related disciplines will participate in the event and will review the possibilities and limitations of data integration, technology development and results translation into clinics and public health interventions. Internationally recognised scientists from these three different domains will act as co-organisers.
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Workshop on "Advances in Proteomics" - Zakopane, Poland - 11-15 April 2011
Convenor: Michal Dadlez (PL)
Due to the dynamic character of proteomes and sensitivity of mass spectrometers, small variation in protocols and in data analysis might leaded to problems with data reproducibility. This workshop concentrates on methodologies of sample preparation for proteomic measurements, to achieve best performance, on proteomic data interpretation and results validation, aiming at extraction of reliable information.
Conference on "Systems Biology of Cellular Regulation" - Dresden, Germany - 3-5 May 2011
Convenors: Andreas Beyer (DE), Anthony A. Hyman (DE) and Francis Stewart (DE)
The international symposium “Systems Biology of Cellular Regulation” will focus on technological aspects of systems biology. New advances, such as high-throughput technologies obtained with genomic approaches, have been the source of biological insights, which will be presented for the first time. The meeting will feature international, high-profile speakers from the areas of stem cell
biology, regenerative medicine, systems genetics and cellular stress.
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"A Global View of Disease Genomics" - Symposium honouring Academician of science, Professor Leena Peltonen-Palotie - Helsinki, Finland - 18-19 May 2011
Convenor: Olli Kallioneimi (FI)
Genomic research has been greatly accelerated by public datasets, new technologies and efficient collaboration. The current challenge is to translate the new information into patient care. This symposium will gather leading scientists to present the advances in genomics and translational research. It will also honour Prof Leena Peltonen-Palotie for her tremendous contribution to modern genomics.
2nd International Workshop on Orthology Inference and Applications - Hinxton, United Kingdom - 17-19 June 2011
Convenors: Christophe Dessimoz (CH), Javier Herrero (UK), David S. Roos (US) and Erik Sonnhammer (SE)
The identification of orthologs, genes in different species that are evolutionarily the closest, has become a critical prerequisite for many research projects, including important medical/pharmaceutical applications. This workshop will address important issues in orthology identification by bringing together researchers in the field, with the aims of improving the newly available ‘gold standard’ dataset, evaluating alternate ortholog identification approaches, improve interoperability among orthology databases, and improve orthology-based protein function inference.
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School on "Mass Spectrometry based identification and localisation of post-translational modifications" - Warsaw, Poland - 29 August - 2 September 2011
Convenor: Michal Dadlez (PL)
Post translational modifications are highly dynamic and regulate many cellular processes. Thus, identification and localisation of the modifications sites of a given protein is crucial for deciphering its role. The course focuses on the analytical strategies to aid the enrichment and characterisation of protein modifications using mass spectrometry in qualitative and quantitative fashion.
4th European Conference on "Chemistry for Life Sciences" - Budapest, Hungary - 31 August - 3 September 2011
Convenors: Beata Androsits (HU), Monika Bondar (HU), Tamass Kiss (HU) and Andras Perczel (HU)
The success of the previous ECCLS meetings in Rimini, Italy (2005), Wroclaw, Poland (2007) and Frankfurt, Germany (2009) is a confirmation of a growing significance and interest in bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. Chemistry has high influence on many other disciplines connected to life sciences such as biology, pharmacy, medicinal chemistry, toxicology, biotechnology, etc. While biology and medicine remain centerpieces of the life sciences, technological advances in molecular biology and biotechnology have led to a burgeoning of specialisations and new, often interdisciplinary fields. This conference offers a good opportunity for researchers from different disciplines to discuss how chemistry can elucidate and illuminate biological problems, and give answers to basic questions, by mostly molecular biological methods. The conference covers all aspects of these research field.
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Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics - Liège, Belgium - 5-14 September 2011
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 modern methods of statistical analysis of genomic data and to introduce statisticians to statistical problems arising in modern genomics. The programme is composed of a series of 2-½ day modules covering evolving topics in biostatistics and bioinformatics. Examples of recently offered modules include: population genetic data analysis, quantitative genetics, introductory and advanced QTL mapping, genetic epidemiology and association mapping, coalescent theory, MCMC for genetics, microarray analysis, molecular phylogenetics and bioinformatics.
Workshop on "From Phenotypes to Pathways - Inferring network architecture from perturbation maps" - Cambridge, United Kingdom - 15-17 September 2011
Convenors: Michael Boutros (DE) and Florian Markowetz (UK)
This meeting will address two key questions in functional genomics: (1) how to infer cellular networks from phenotypes of single and combinatorial gene perturbations; and (2) how to use integrative approaches for inferring genetic variants driving disease networks.There will be 40 leading European researchers, half with a computational, half with an experimental background, to foster collaborations between disciplines.
5th Central and Eastern European Proteomic Conference - Prague, Czech Republic - 19-22 September 2011
Convenors: Günter Allmaier (AT), Suresh Jivan Gadher (CZ), Hana Kovárová (CZ), Ales Svatos (DE) and Karoly Vekey (HU)
The 5th Central and Eastern European Proteomic Conference (CEEPC) in Prague, Czech Republic in September 2011 is the latest in a successful series of CEEPC which has now become an established tradition, aims to bring together people interested in proteomics with special focus on the European regions where proteomics is not yet fully developed.
Conference on "Epigenomics and Gene Regulatory Networks Controlling Cellular Responses" - Turku, Finland - 3-4 October 2011
Convenors: Attila Gyenesei (FI), Riitta Lahesmaa (FI), Riikka Lund (FI) and Juha-Pekka Pursiheimo (FI)
This international meeting brings together top experts in the field of Functional Genomics providing insights into strategies how genome-wide technology platforms have been applied in approaches aiming at understanding gene regulatory networks and epigenetic regulation in cellular responses. The topics will cover regulation of transcription, alternative splicing, post-translational modifications and epigeneticregulation of the stem cells, lineage committed cells and the cells of immune system in health and diseases.
Conference on "The Rhythm of Life: Cycles in Biology" - Heidelberg, Germany - 17-19 November 2011
Convenors: Gary Male (DE) and Camille Terfve (UK)
The 13th International EMBL PhD Symposium, entitled "The Rhythm of Life: Cycles in Biology" intends to gather young scientists and established researchers around a common theme, cycles in biology (whether at the cell, organism or biochemical level), approached from diverse disciplines and with different tools. Speakers will include experts from the fields of systems biology, cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, computational biology and genomics.
