Label and Label-Free Technologies in Synergy Webinar
You are invited to view our panel of experts on Wednesday, March 2, 2011, in a live, online educational seminar, "Label and Label-free Technologies in Synergy: Creating a Powerful Approach to Drug Discovery."
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Time: 12:00 noon ET; 9:00 a.m. PT; 5 p.m. GMT Duration: 1 hour Register now and submit your questions LIVE to the experts during the webinar! For more information and complimentary registration visit: www.sciencemag.org/webinar
Webinar Description
Label-free technologies have gained wide acceptance in both academic research settings and in drug discovery laboratories in recent years. With the advent of faster and more accurate label-free technologies, and their pairing with traditional systems for labeled detection, the use of highly sensitive medium to high throughput cellular and biochemical assays in microplate format is now routinely possible. This advance offers scientists a fuller picture of their system under study and speeds the screening of compounds for drug discovery. This webinar will explore in depth the pros and cons of combining traditional label technologies with label-free assays, a so-called orthogonal approach.
During the webinar, our panelists will:
Provide an overview of the various label-free technologies available Discuss how label-free technologies can be applied in drug discovery research Share their experience using a combination of label-free and traditional labeled detection systems Answer questions from webinar viewers live and in real time. Register at: www.sciencemag.org/webinar
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We are pleased to invite you to attend the 4th International Symposium of Environmental Physiology of Ectotherms and Plants (ISEPEP4), to be held on JULY 18-22, 2011 in Rennes, FRANCE (http://isepep4.univ-rennes1.fr/news.php).
Preliminary list of topics that may be covered during the conference:
1. Low temperature biology of insects - Dormancy, Diapause and Cryptobiosis - Phenology - Rapid cold hardening, acclimation and acclimatisation - Metabolism - Chilling injury and subsequent recovery
2. Molecular aspects of cold and heat stress: 'Omics' studies in low temperature biology of ectotherms and plants - Antifreeze and ice active proteins - Chaperone/heat shock proteins - Transcriptomics - Proteomics - Metabolomics
4. Water relations: - Dehydration and anhydrobiosis - Ion balance during stress - Ice nucleation and antinucleation - Aquaporins - Osmotic and ionic relations
5. Environmental physiology in alpine and polar environments
OMICS Publishing Group is organizing "International Conference & Exhibition on Virology" will be held during 5-7 September 2011 Baltimore, USA. We have attempted to contact you earlier regarding the Conference and as we are aware of your busy schedule and your engagement in many other activities, we would like to take the pleasure of contacting you again regarding Virology-2011 Baltimore, USA. We would like to take the utmost pleasure in inviting you to this conference to discuss and analyze “Novel Therapeutic Strategies in Virology".
Virology-2011 is a specially designed cluster conference, which covers a wide range of critically important sessions in basic Virology research to Advances in Cancer, Agriculture, Veterinary and Clinical research studies.
Virology-2011 organizing committee anticipates over 1500 participants to attend this premier event
The conference topics include:
• Viral Genomics and Proteomics • HIV associated diseases • Advances in Gene therapy • Tumour virology and immunology • Antiviral vaccine development • Clinical viral diagnostics • Agriculture and Plant virology • Veterinary viral genomics and proteomics • Pediatric viral diseases • Regulatory and Economical Aspects in Virology
OMICS Publishing Group invites you to attend the World Congress on Biotechnology going to be held on 21-23 March 2011 Hyderabad, India. We welcome all the participants from across the world to take part in this premier event.
MCCMB'11 (Moscow, Russia, July 21-24, 2011) is the fifth International Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics.
We welcome submissions of two-page abstracts from researchers working, in particular, in the following areas: - Sequence analysis (statistics of DNA and protein sequences; functional annotation of genes, proteins and genomes); - Structure of biopolymers (prediction of protein structure; interaction of proteins with ligands; comparative analysis of protein 3D structures; prediction of RNA structure); - Molecular evolution (phylogenetic analysis; comparative genomics; genome rearrangements); - Omics (genome and metagenome analysis; transcriptomics; large-scale analysis of proteomes and protein-protein interactions); - Systems biology (metabolic and signal pathways; models and networks); - Bioalgorithms. Please submit two-page abstracts following the instruction at http://mccmb.genebee.msu.ru/2011/index.php?id=submission
The deadline for submission of abstracts for oral presentations is March 1. The deadline for submission of poster abstracts is April 30.
Based on the conference history, we expect about 40 talks, 100 posters, and, possibly, some computer demonstrations and round tables.
Key dates: - Conference: July 21-24, 2011. - The on-site registration starts July 20. By this date, participants should already be registered online. - Satellite events: July 25-27 (the details will be provided at the conference Web site).
The Sixth International Symposium on Molecular Insect Science is the first of the series to be held outside of the USA. Previous Symposia, organized by the University of Arizona’s Center for Insect Science, have been met with great enthusiasm. By holding this in Amsterdam, in collaboration with Elsevier, it is hoped that the meeting will be even more accessible to scientists and their students in Europe, in the New World, Asia, Australasia, and elsewhere.
We welcome poster and abstract submissions on the following topics:
•Genomics and Proteomics •Arthropod EvoDevo •Neurobiology •(Antagonistic and Symbiotic) Interactions •Toxicology and Insecticide Resistance •Immunity •Endocrinology •Chemical Ecology and Behaviour •Pest Control Biotechnology •Drug Discovery Please check this website regularly. To keep informed of developments, abstract submission and programme information, register for email updates
The abstract deadline for oral and poster submissions is Friday 8, April 2011.
International Conference & Exhibition on Virology Dates: 5 - 7 September 2011 Venue: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Website: http://www.omicsonline.org/virology2011/ Operated by:Editors-Journal of Antivirals & Antiretrovirals and Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research Hosting Organization: OMICS Publishing Group
Currently, we are involved in organizing Annual “International Conference & Exhibition on Virology", will be held during 5-7 September 2011 Baltimore, USA. The main theme of the Virology-2011 is "Novel Therapeutic Strategies in Virology".Virology-2011 is a specially designed cluster conference, which covers a wide range of critically important sessions in basic virology research to Advances in Cancer, Agriculture, Veterinary and Clinical research.
The Centre for International Mobility CIMO invites applications from Russian and Ukrainian postgraduate students for participation in the 15th Winter School organized during 7 - 12 March 2011 at Tvärminne zoological station. of the University of Helsinki.
The goal of the Winter School is to enhance the mobility of young researchers and postgraduate students between Finland and the participating countries and to increase the cooperation between the universities.
Before applying for participation in the 15th Winter School, the applicants are expected to contact one or more scientists/research group leaders at Finnish universities to discuss a possible project with them. Expression of interest by the Finnish host will be considered an advantage during the selection process.
Those Winter School participants who will be invited to Finland after the Winter School by Finnish research teams will be offered a scholarship from the CIMO Fellowship programme.
The invited participants of the Winter School will be expected to come to work or study in Finland for 3 to 18 months. In 2010, the monthly amount of scholarship was 1200 euro.
The 15th CIMO Winter School is multidisciplinary - not for a particular, narrow field of science, but rather for a scientific topic. This time, the school focuses on chemistry for life sciences in its many aspects embracing topics from chemistry and biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology and computer science.
Applications from related fields, such as chemistry and biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, physiology, biophysics, psychology, public health and nutrition, medicine and biomedicine, etc. are welcome.
The school tends to stimulate active participation and discussion. The untraditional working method has been specially developed for the Winter School and it aims at enhancing the strength of participants? own personal expertise, problem-solving capabilities, scientific presentation skills and creative mind.
More detailed information about the scientific programme as well as teachers will be published in September.
Written applications for participation are welcome from Russian and Ukrainian postgraduate students. The applicants must be citizens of Russia or Ukraine and not over 35 years of age. Applications are not accepted from those who have participated in one of the previous Winter Schools. The application form and instructions can be found on CIMO's website (www.cimo.fi | In English).
The deadline for applications is 22 October 2010. The complete paper versions of applications should reach CIMO by that date. Financial assistance/grants
No participation fee is charged from the participants. Accommodation in student halls of residence and meals at course site are covered by CIMO. CIMO will also award a travel grant covering partial expense of the participants travel between their home town and Helsinki.
In today's ScienceExpress, researchers led by J. Craig Venter report that they have built a genome from scratch and used it to control a cell. The breakthrough—$40 million and more than a decade in the making—is a critical milestone in the burgeoning field of synthetic genomics. But it also raises important scientific and ethical questions.
JoVE, the first PubMed-indexed visualized methods journal, has published its 450th video article. We invite you to publish your experimental methods in our journal to join your colleagues from Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, NIH and other leading institutions that previously published in JoVE. Our film professionals are ready to come to your lab and film your procedures - please reply to this email or visit instructions to authors if you are interested.
Below are recently published articles in their respective fields. We have made them available to you without the need for a subscription.
Developmental Biology: Lens Transplantation in Zebrafish and its Application in the Analysis of Eye Mutants Yan Zhang, Kyle McCulloch, Jarema Malicki Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Neuroscience: Live Imaging of Glial Cell Migration in the Drosophila Eye Imaginal Disc Patrick Cafferty, Xiaojun Xie, Kristen Browne, Vanessa Auld Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia
Psychology: Exploring Cognitive Functions in Babies, Children & Adults with Near Infrared Spectroscopy Mark Shalinsky, Iouila Kovelman, Melody Berens, Laura-Ann Petitto Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Plant Biology: Mating and Tetrad Separation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for Genetic Analysis Xingshan Jiang, David Stern Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University
I hope that you find JoVE useful for your research and studies, and will consider publishing with us.
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Invitation to: NATO ASI 10th Summer School, Erice, Sicily; June 22-July 2, 2010
ERICE-SICILY: 22 June – 2 July 2010 URL: http://smrl.stanford.edu/erice2010/ NATO Advanced Study Institute PURPOSE OF THE COURSE: The course will provide an overview of physical and structural methods in biology and will present technologies related to pathogen detection and treatment. Both basic principles and concrete examples will be presented in a long course format. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Jody Puglisi; Alexander Arseniev; Angela Gronenborn; Gian Luigi Rossi; Elisabetta Viani LECTURERS: A. ARSENIEV, Russian Academy of Sciences, RU; A. BRUNGER, Stanford University School of Medicine, US; M. DELEPIERRE, Institute Pasteur, Paris, FR; R. EFREMOV, Russian Academy of Sciences, RU; M. EHRENBERG, University of Uppsala, SE; A. GRONENBORN, University of Pittsburgh, US; D. LILLEY, University of Dundee, UK; A. McPHERSON, UC Irvine, US; H. OSCHKINAT, Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, GE; J.D. PUGLISI, Stanford University School of Medicine, US; G.L. ROSSI, University of Parma, IT; P. SELENKO, Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, GE; A. SHIVANYUK, National University of Kiev, UA; B. SYKES, University of Alberta, CA; A. YONATH, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL. FEE: 1,100 Euro. Fee includes full board and lodging at the Ettore Majorana Centre. INQUIRIES & APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Ms. Manolia Margaris – Administrative Director, manolia@stanford.edu Tel: (1) 650/723-9151 ♦ Fax: (1) 650/723-8464 http://www.stanford.edu/~manolia/erice2010app.fb
Nordic-Russian Cooperation in Education and Research Preparatory Actions 2009 Call for proposals
This call for proposals has two parts. The main priority is to fund preparatory cooperative activities between the Nordic countries and Northwest Russia at all levels of education. The secondary part is to open possibilities for the participation of Russian institutions in cooperation funded by the Nordplus programme.
The call covers all levels of education from basic education and vocational education to higher education and adult learning.
Thematic and other priorities largely follow the call for proposals in 2008, which were based on a dialogue between the Nordic Council of Ministers and representatives of authorities and the education sector in Russia.
Opening date for call is 22 October 2009.
The application deadline is 15 December 2009
The online application facility will be available no later than 30 October 2009 at www.siu.no.
From Darwin to Evo-Devo The Symposium in honor of the 150th anniversary of Darwin's "The Origin of Species"
2009 will mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species (Nov. 24th 1859). To honor and celebrate this event The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology will host internationally-renown scientists from inside and outside Israel working at the interface of evolution and other life sciences fields, including molecular, genetic, ecological, bacterial, botanical, zoological, as well as human aspects of evolution.
The Centre for International Mobility CIMO invites applications from Russian and Ukrainian postgraduate students for participation in the 14th Winter School organized during 8 - 14 March 2010 at Tvärminne zoological station of the University of Helsinki.
Those Winter School participants who will be invited to Finland after the Winter School by Finnish research teams will be offered a scholarship from the CIMO Fellowship programme. The invited participants of the Winter School will be expected to come to work or study in Finland for 3 to 18 months. In 2009, the monthly amount of scholarship was 1200 euro.
No participation fee is charged from the participants. Accommodation in student halls of residence and meals at course site are covered by CIMO. CIMO will also award a travel grant covering partial expense of the participants’ travel between their home town and Helsinki.
Applications from other related fields, such as molecular and cell biology, physiology, biophysics, psychology, public health, medicine and biomedicine, etc. are welcome.
The school tends to stimulate active participation and discussion. The untraditional working method has been specially developed for the Winter School and it aims at enhancing the strength of participants’ own personal expertise, problem-solving capabilities, scientific presentation skills and creative mind.
The deadline for applications is 23 October 2009. The complete paper versions of applications should reach CIMO by that date.
The application form and instructions can be found on CIMO’s website (www.cimo.fi | In English).
MCCMB'09 is the forth Moscow conference on computational molecular biology and bioinformatics. We welcome submissions of two-page abstracts from researchers working, in particular, in the following areas:
- Sequence analysis (statistics of DNA and protein sequences; functional annotation of DNA sequences and proteins); - Structure of biopolymers (prediction of protein structure; interaction of proteins with ligands; classification of folds and structural motifs; prediction of RNA structure); - Molecular evolution (phylogeny analysis; evolution of genomes, regulatory systems and metabolic pathways; genome rearrangements); - Genomics and proteomics (large scale genome analysis; metabolic and signal pathways; expression arrays; SNPs in medicine and population genetics; large-scale analysis of proteomes and protein-protein interactions; automated annotation of genomes); - Systems biology (models and networks); - Bioalgorithms; - Education in bioinformatics.
Conference: July 20-23, 2009. The on-site registration starts July 19. Satellite events, including workshops in bioalgorithms: July 24-25 (the details will be provided at the conference Web site shortly).
The deadline for submission of abstracts for oral presentations is April 1 Notification to authors: April 25 The deadline for submission of poster abstracts and revised abstracts: June 5
I would like to draw your attention to the 2009 calls for the International Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Programmes at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO).
The CNIO offers excellent training and research opportunities in cutting edge basic and applied cancer research. The programmes are open to outstanding young graduates from all over the world who want to pursue ambitious research projects.
The deadline for applications is March 15th, 2009.
The CNIO International Postdoctoral Programme offers up to 6 very competitively funded two-year postdoc positions to outstanding junior scientists. Applications are considered at regular intervals, the 2008 call closes on December 31st, 2008.
The Centre for International Mobility CIMO invites applications from Russian and Ukrainian postgraduate students for participation in the 13th Winter School organized during 23 - 29 March 2009 at Tvärminne zoological station of the University of Helsinki (http://www.helsinki.fi/ml/tvea).
The goal of the Winter School is to enhance the mobility of young researchers and postgraduate students between Finland and the participating countries and to increase the cooperation of the universities. Successful participants invited to Finland after the Winter School by Finnish research teams will be offered a scholarship by CIMO for periods of varied duration.
The 13th CIMO Winter School is multidisciplinary - not for a particular, narrow field of science, but rather for a scientific topic. This time, the school focuses on biomolecules regulating health and disease embracing topics from neuroscience, biochemistry, clinical microbiology, endocrinology and cognitive psychology. Leading Finnish experts will discuss the roles of biomolecules in pain, addiction and cellular signaling, as well as in diabetes.
Applications from all related fields, such as molecular and cell biology, physiology, biophysics, biology, psychology, medicine and biomedicine, etc. are welcome.
The school tends to stimulate active participation and discussion. The untraditional working method is especially developed for the Winter School and it aims at enhancing the strength of participants’ own personal expertise, problem-solving capabilities, scientific presentation skills and creative mind. Applications for participation Written applications for participation are welcome from Russian and Ukrainian postgraduate students. The applicants must be citizens of Russia or Ukraine and not over 33 years of age. Applications are not accepted from those who have participated in one of the previous Winter Schools. The application form and instructions can be found on CIMO’s website (www.cimo.fi | In English).
Application deadline The deadline for applications is 24 October 2008. The complete paper versions of applications should reach CIMO by that date.
Financial assistance/grants No participation fee is charged from the participants. Accommodation in student halls of residence and meals at course site are covered by CIMO. CIMO will also award the Russian and Ukrainian participants a grant covering roughly the travel costs between their home town and Helsinki.