From arne at bioinfo.se Fri Oct 3 11:42:24 2014 From: arne at bioinfo.se (Arne Elofsson) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 11:42:24 +0200 Subject: [SocBiN] Genomics Faculty Position - Assistant/Associate Professors with Temple University - Biology Department Message-ID: http://mobilejobs.sciencecareers.org/job/342492/?CookieTest=True Temple University Genomics faculty position (Assistant/Associate Professors) The Department of Biology at Temple University invites applications for tenured and tenure-track faculty positions in genomics. We are interested in early and mid-career scientists who will integrate concepts, methods, and tools from evolutionary and population genomics to address significant questions in biology and biomedicine. Successful candidates will have a primary focus on large scale analytics and computational science. They will be core faculty of the new Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine (iGEM) or the Center for Computational Genetics and Genomics (CCGG) at Temple University. We are seeking candidates who will closely complement existing strengths in the Dept. of Biology in the areas of molecular evolution, population genetics, phylogenomics, phylomedicine, biodiversity, and computational biology. Applicants should submit to igem at temple.edu a single pdf containing a cover letter, a detailed curriculum vitae, a summary of current and future research interests, and a statement of teaching philosophy. Please include in the cover letter a link to a Google Scholar profile. Through their research and teaching statements applicants should inform the search committee about the transformative and cross-disciplinary aspects of their work. Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2014. Temple University is located in the heart of historic Philadelphia, and is the sixth largest provider of graduate school education in the USA. Situated in close proximity to New York City and Washington DC, Philadelphia is home to a large biotech industry and has many outstanding academic and research institutions. Temple University is an Equal Opportunity, Equal Access, Affirmative Action Employer committed to achieving a diverse community (AA, EOE, m/f/d/v). Interested in this job? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Erik.Bongcam at slu.se Fri Oct 3 18:41:52 2014 From: Erik.Bongcam at slu.se (Erik Bongcam-Rudloff) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 16:41:52 +0000 Subject: [SocBiN] Computational miRNA target prediction seminar Message-ID: Dear all, Professor Artemis Hatzigeorgiou will give a seminar entitled: "Lost in translation: computational miRNA target prediction? Time: Friday 10 October at 14 hours Place: VHC Tanngrisner, Ultuna, Uppsala How to get there: http://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/locations-and-units/locations/uppsala/byggnader-vid-slu-i-uppsala/1/2/2/ More information about Artemis lab and tools: http://diana.imis.athena-innovation.gr/DianaTools/index.php?r=site/index You are all welcome! Erik -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrej.alekseenko at scilifelab.se Thu Oct 9 17:14:30 2014 From: andrej.alekseenko at scilifelab.se (Andrey Alexeyenko) Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:14:30 +0200 Subject: [SocBiN] Fwd: PI candidate search at BII Singapore In-Reply-To: <543670C7.8070201@bii.a-star.edu.sg> References: <543670C7.8070201@bii.a-star.edu.sg> Message-ID: <5436A656.9080602@scilifelab.se> Dear colleagues and friends, I am looking for good candidates for open PI position at my Division. Please distribute the attached advertisement among possible prospective candidates. Many thanks for your help. Best regards. Vladimir prof. Vladimir A. Kuznetsov, PhD, SciD Deputy Director, Graduate Affairs Senior Principal Investigator Head Division of Genome and Gene Expression Data Analysis Bioinformatics Institute 30, Biopolis street #07-01 Matrix Singapore, 138671 phone: +65 6478 8288 http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/research/gagd/gagd.php This email and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify me immediately. Please do not copy or use it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PI_position GGEDA-2014.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 23952 bytes Desc: not available URL: From nicosia at dmi.unict.it Sat Oct 11 17:56:46 2014 From: nicosia at dmi.unict.it (Giuseppe Nicosia) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 17:56:46 +0200 Subject: [SocBiN] 1st announcement: Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School: Biology meets Engineering and Computer Science, Taormina - Sicily, Italy July 5-9, 2015 Message-ID: ______________________________________________________ Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) ______________________________________________________ Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School: Biology meets Engineering and Computer Science - 2nd Edition Taormina - Sicily, Italy, July 5-9, 2015 http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/ ssbss.school at gmail.com ** Deadlines ** Student Application: February 15, 2015 Oral/Poster Submission: February 15, 2015 The Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School (SSBSS) is a full-immersion course on cutting-edge advances in systems and synthetic biology with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The school provides a stimulating environment for doctoral students, early career researches and industry leaders. Participants will also have the chance to present their results (Oral presentations or Posters) and to interact with their peers. ** Topics ** Genetic Engineering Metabolic Engineering Genome Design Reading and Writing Genomes Pathway Design Synthetic Circuits and Cells Biological CAD Industrial Applications Artificial Tissues and Organs Genomically recoded Organisms Biological Design Automation ** List of Speakers ** * Adam Arkin, University of California Berkeley, USA * Jef Boeke, New York University, USA * Angela DePace, Harvard University, USA * Forbes Dewey, MIT, USA * Paul Freemont, Imperial College London, UK * Karmella Haynes, Arizona State University, USA * Richard Kitney, Imperial College London, UK * Timothy Lu, MIT, USA * Philip Maini, Oxford University, UK * Steve Oliver, Cambridge University, UK * Greg Stephanopoulos, MIT, USA - TBC * Nicola Zamboni, ETH, Switzerland Other speakers will be announced soon. ** Industrial Panel ** * Zach Serber, Zymergen, Inc. USA More speakers will be announced soon! School Directors Jef D. Boeke, New York University, USA Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy Giovanni Stracquadanio, University of Oxford, UK ** Short Talk and Poster Submission ** Students may submit a research abstract for presentation. School directors will review the abstracts and will recommend for poster or short-oral presentation. Abstract should be submitted by February 15, 2015. The abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out material of the summer school. http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/index.html#applicationForm http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2015/ ssbss.school at gmail.com Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested. To unsubscribe from this list, send a mail message (leaving the subject line blank) to cfp.ssbss at dmi.unict.it. The body of your message should contain the following one line: unsubscribe your-email -- Giuseppe Nicosia, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Catania Viale A. Doria, 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy P +39 095 7383048 E nicosia at dmi.unict.it W http://www.dmi.unict.it/nicosia ----------------------------------------------------------- From mikael.borg at bils.se Thu Oct 16 15:35:19 2014 From: mikael.borg at bils.se (mikael borg) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:35:19 +0200 Subject: [SocBiN] BILS Annual Symposium and User Meeting in Lund 12 Nov 2014 Message-ID: <543FC997.9090503@bils.se> The third annual BILS symposium and user meeting will take place Nov 12 in Lund. Time: Wednesday 12 November from 10h00 to 16h00 Location: H?rsalen, Medicon Village, Scheelev?gen 2, Lund Keynote speakers: * Dr. Maria Warnefors, Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne - Switzerland * Prof. Bernhard Kuster, Proteomics and Bioanalytics, Technische Universit?t M?nchen - Germany: "Mass spectrometric draft of the human proteome in ProteomicsDB " * Dr. Johan-Vallon Christersson, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University: "Informatics for large scale mRNA sequencing of breast cancer" The symposium is free of charge. Please register before Wednesday Oct 29 by sending an e-mail to symposium2014 at bils.se, so that we can plan coffee breaks and lunch. Welcome! -- Mikael Borg technical coordinator BILS - Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences - http://bils.se e-mail: mikael.borg at bils.se phone: +46-(0)76-306 50 80 address: SciLifeLab, Box 1031, 171 21 Solna, Sweden -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: BILS Annual Symposium 12 Nov 2014 in Lund.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 74340 bytes Desc: not available URL: From arne at bioinfo.se Thu Oct 23 12:26:27 2014 From: arne at bioinfo.se (Arne Elofsson) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:26:27 +0200 Subject: [SocBiN] =?iso-8859-1?q?Bioinformatics_position_in_Link=F6ping=2C?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_Sweden?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A full time bioinformatics position is available in Link?ping. You need a masters or PhD degree. Primary tasks are to aid researchers within different omics fields. Bioinformatik Link?ping Ref: IKE-2014-00595 Dela Dela P? Link?pings universitet tror vi p? utbyte. Av kunskap, erfarenhet och id?er - p? en arbetsplats d?r samverkan mellan fakulteter och institutioner ?r grunden i vad vi g?r. Vi ?r innovat?rer och utbildare, och vi skapar gr?nsl?sa m?jligheter. I v?r verklighet beh?vs din fantasi, kreativitet och kompetens. Institutionen f?r klinisk och experimentell medicin, IKE, ?r en av Link?pings universitets st?rsta institutioner med verksamhet inom framf?rallt den medicinska fakulteten. Inom grundutbildningen ansvarar IKE bland annat f?r logopedutbildning, utbildning inom medicinsk biologi samt huvuddelen av l?karutbildningen. Institutionen utexaminerar ?rligen ca 40 medicine doktorer. IKEs forskningsverksamhet har expanderat kraftigt de senaste ?ren och befinner sig fortfarande i ett mycket expansivt skede. Forskning bedrivs inom ett brett spektrum av modern biomedicin, fr?n detaljerade molekyl?ra och cellul?ra studier, till genetik, klinisk forskning och epidemiologi. Institutionen ?r organiserad i fem avdelningar och ett kansli samt bedriver verksamhet inom 24 olika ?mnesomr?den. Vi s?ker nu en Forskningsingenj?r/F?rste forskningsingenj?r inom Bioinformatik Dina framtida arbetsuppgifter I arbetsuppgifterna ing?r att vara forskarna vid LiU behj?lplig med bioinformatisk hantering och analys av stora datam?ngder som genererarats fr?n Micro Array, next generation sequencing och masspektrometri analyser (s k OMICS data), samt att introducera nya mjukvaror f?r analys av forskarnas olika fr?gest?llningar. Detta kan inneb?ra utvecklande av olika analysverktyg, program och konstruktion av databaser som forskarna beh?ver f?r att l?sa sina fr?gest?llningar och f?r att optimera resultat tolkning. Innehavaren skall bevaka den metodologiska utvecklingen inom omr?det bioinformatik vid Medicinska fakulteten, Link?pings universitet, samt bidra till och initiera samarbeten med kollegor s?v?l inom som utanf?r ?mnesomr?det. Innehavaren kommer att ing? i ett n?tverk av bioinformatiker som organiseras av BILS (Bio Informatics for Life Sciences) och som finns representerad vid LiU och andra medicinska universitet. Innehavaren f?rv?ntas dessutom medverka med sina expertkunskaper i undervisningen inom bioinformatik p? b?de grund- och avancerad niv?, liksom inom forskarutbildningen. Dina kvalifikationer Vi s?ker nu n?gon som har h?gskoleutbildning inom bioinformatik eller har motsvarande vetenskaplig kompetens eller n?gon annan yrkesskicklighet som ?r av betydelse med h?nsyn till anst?llningens ?mnesinneh?ll och de arbetsuppgifter som skall ing? i anst?llningen. Med motsvarande vetenskaplig kompetens avses dokumenterad utl?ndsk examen som bed?ms motsvara minst doktorsexamen. Kunskaper i biostatistik ?r meriterande. Goda spr?kkunskaper i svenska och engelska s?v?l i tal och skrift. Stor vikt kommer att l?ggas vid samarbetsf?rm?ga och f?rm?ga att kommunicera med kollegor. Stor vikt kommer ?ven att l?ggas vid personliga egenskaper och l?mplighet. Anst?llningens omfattning Heltid. Tilltr?de Enligt ?verenskommelse. L?n Universitetet till?mpar individuell l?nes?ttning. Ange l?neanspr?k i ans?kan. Fackliga kontaktpersoner F?r kontakt med fackliga kontaktpersoner se www.liu.se/jobba/lediga-jobb/fackliga-kontaktpersoner Ans?kan V?lkommen att skicka in din ans?kan med CV och personligt brev senast den 5 november. Du s?ker denna anst?llning genom att klicka p? knappen "Ans?k" h?r nedan. Ans?kan som inkommer efter sista ans?kningsdag kommer inte att beaktas. Lika villkor Flertalet av v?ra forskningsingenj?rer inom institutionen ?r kvinnor, d?rf?r ges m?n f?retr?de vid tills?ttning av denna anst?llning, vid huvudsak lika meriter i ?vrigt. Link?pings universitet ska forts?tta att utvecklas som en attraktiv och kreativ arbetsplats som pr?glas av lika villkor och arbetar d?rf?r aktivt f?r j?mst?lldhet och m?ngfald. Kontaktpersoner Peter S?derkvist Professor 010-103 1708 peter.soderkvist at liu.se Pernilla Eriksson Personalintendent 013-28 44 50 pernilla.eriksson at liu.se L?nk till den h?r sidanhttp:// www.liu.se/jobba/lediga-jobb?l=sv&&rmpage=job&rmjob=734&rmlang=SE Ans?k -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arne at bioinfo.se Tue Oct 28 13:26:25 2014 From: arne at bioinfo.se (Arne Elofsson) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:26:25 +0100 Subject: [SocBiN] Jobs - The International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology Message-ID: Go to Home... Laboratories... Publications... Seminars... Staff... Highlights Equipment Equipment Core Facility Core Facility RESEARCH GROUP LEADER The International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IIMCB), Warsaw, Poland, invites applications for Research Group Leader We seek a talented, dynamic, independent, and motivated scientist early in his/her career to establish a research group. 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