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.

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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.

If you've got questions of your own, we want to hear them. Type your queries here:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010...kthrough-s.html

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Dear Scientist,

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.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to

Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak

for the discovery of

"how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicin...2009/press.html

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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.

http://darwin.technion.ac.il/Darwin/index.asp

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).

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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).

Participants must register online at http://mccmb.belozersky.msu.ru/2009/Reg.htm

Please submit two-page abstracts following the instruction at http://mccmb.belozersky.msu.ru/2009/Abstract.htm

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

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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.


- Ph.D. Programme: www.cnio.es/phd <http://www.cnio.es/phd>

- Postdoc Programme: www.cnio.es/postdoc

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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.

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3rd ESF Conference on Functional Genomics and Disease
October 1-4, 2008
Innsbruck, Austria

Early registration deadline - 30 June 2008
Abstract submission deadline - 30 May 2008

http://www.esffg2008.org/

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www.icy2008.org.ua

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is my pleasure to invite you to attend the 12th International Congress on Yeasts, which will be held on August 11-15, 2008, in picturesque Kyiv (Kiev), one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, the capital of Ukraine.


The list of the oral and poster sessions is as follows:
1. Yeast Molecular Systematics
2. Yeast Ecology
3. Food and Beverage Yeasts
4. Medically Important Yeasts
5. New Tools in Yeast Research
6. Systems Biology
7. Genomics and Proteomics
8. Transcriptional and Translational Regulation
9. Cell Cycle
10. Sensing and Signalling
11. Membrane Structure and Functions
12. Traffic and Secretion
13. Stress Response
14. Organelles and Autophagy
15. Yeast Apoptosis
16. Yeast as Model of Human Diseases and Drug Testing
17. Production of Heterologous Proteins
18. Metabolic Engineering
19. Yeasts for Fuel Ethanol Production and other Biorefineries
20. Yeast Biochemical Engineering
21. Yeast Biochemistry and Physiology


The list of confirmed speakers includes the Nobel laureate Aaron Ciechanover and other top-level yeast researchers (altogether, near 100 scientists already confirmed their participation as Invited Speakers). Total number of Plenary Lectures and Session Lectures will be near 140. Besides, Congress will include poster sessions and workshops.
Plenary Lecture will be given by the Nobel Prize winner (Chemistry, 2004) A. Ciechanover (Israel) as well as by J. Aitchison (USA), M. Bolotin-Fukuhara (France), J. Cregg (USA), B. Hahn-Hagerdal (Sweden), A. Hinnebusch (USA), Y. Ohsumi (Japan), K. Struhl (USA), S. Subramani (USA), J. Thevelein (Belgium).


On-line Registration and Abstracts Submission was opened on December 1st, 2007. Deadline for abstract submission – May 15, 2008.
Authors of Invited Lectures are selected by Organizing Committee. After abstracts reviewing, co-chairs of the sessions will select authors of short lectures to be presented at the workshops.


Participant – 450 EUR;
Ph.D. Student – 300 EUR;
Accompanying person – 130 EUR

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The Organizers are pleased to announce the 8th edition of the Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting (CBM8) that will be held at the Hotel Continental Terme from 10 to 13 May 2009 in Ischia (Naples, Italy) .

In the tradition of CBM series started in Elsinor (Denmark) in 1995 and fostered in the meetings in La Rochelle, New Castle, Stockholm, Groningen, Barcelona and Braunschweig (2007), CBM8 in Ischia aims to show the updated state-of-the-art of research on basic and applied aspects of carbohydrate bioengineering and to stimulate high quality research, inspiring those already working in the field and young scientists approaching glycoscience.

The Conference will include sessions on screening and protein engineering of carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes), chemical and enzymatic synthesis of carbohydrates, glycogenomic and glycomic, structural and functional analysis of sugars, glycoconjugates and CAZymes, applications of carbohydrates, glycoconjugates and carbohydrate active enzymes in health, nutrition, and biocatalysis.

http://www.cbm8.org/

http://library.kaist.ac.kr/sci_data/JCR2006_IF.xls

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Program of the Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (MCCMB'07), July 27-31, 2007:

http://mccmb.belozersky.msu.ru/2007/Program.htm

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We invite you to join our post-conference tour. We plan to visit old Russian cities: Rostov the Great and Kostroma (see attachments for additional information). The tour is planned for August 1st and 2nd. The approximated price is $170 per person. However, the price is subject to change dependent on the number of participants. The price includes transportation, hotel, meals and excursions.

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ESF Frontiers of Functional Genomics Events in 2007/08

European Institute in Statistical Genetics 2007 - September 3-12, 2007: Liège, Belgium - registration open

New Approaches for the Study of Nucleotide Triphosphate (ATP/GTP) Hydrolysis Dependent Signal Transduction Pathways - September 5-8, 2007: Arcachon, France

4th Integrative Bioinformatics Conference - September 10-12, 2007: Ghent, Belgium - registration open

Symbiosis: 13th European Congress on Biotechnology - Functional Genomics & Technology Symposium - September 16-19, 2007: Barcelona, Spain - registration open

Advanced Large-Scale Expression Profiling - Focus on mRNA, ChIP-chip and Whole Genome Associations - March 19-22, 2008: Turku, Finland

2nd European Farm Animal Functional Genomics Conference - April 7-9, 2008: Edinburgh, UK

More information is available at http://www.functionalgenomics.org.uk/secti...tites/index.htm

First Announcement - May 2007
The European Bioenergetics Conference 2008 (EBEC 2008) will be held in Trinity College Dublin from 19-24 July 2008. This is the first time the Conference will be held in Ireland and will bring together scientists from around the world to present their work and discuss scientific discovery in the area of Energy Transduction. The Conference will comprise of Plenary lectures and three parallel symposia in areas such as Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Metabolic Diseases, Mitochondria in brain function/neurodegeneration, and Mitochondrial dynamics, as well as symposia on core topics such as Mitochondrial Biogenesis, ATPsynthase/ATPases, Membrane Transporters, Electron Transport Chain Complexes and Light Driven Energy Transduction.
Dublin is a vibrant capital with a lot of attractions to engage visitors, and Trinity College is in the heart of the city. We have already booked 250 rooms on campus and we will be encouraging delegates to arrange their own accommodation in one of the many hotels within walking distance of the University. Trinity is well equipped for Conferences of this size and I have an experienced team of local organizers who are helping me with the conference. A key emphasis for EBEC 2008 will be to facilitate the participation of young scientists. To that end, I urge you to forward the conference website details to members of your laboratory and to all interested colleagues in the field.

http://www.tcd.ie/Biochemistry/ebec2008/

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As part of the ESF research networking programme Frontiers of Functional Genomics

Registration is open for the ESF-supported European Institute of Statistical Genetics 2007 to be held at University of Liège, Belgium

3-12 September, 2007

Deadline for early registration - 17 August

Scholarships available - apply before 2 July

For further details and registration please go to:

http://www.biostat.washington.edu/sisg07/i...location=europe