VanBUG (Vancouver Bioinformatics Users Group) is an association of researchers, other professionals and students in the B.C. Lower Mainland who have an interest in the field of bioinformatics.

VanBUG meets on the second Thursday of every month from September through April. Research presentations by bioinformatics leaders, students and industry representatives are followed by networking over pizza and refreshments

Meetings are held in the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Family Theatre, BC Cancer Research Centre, 675 West 10th Avenue at 6:00 pm and are free and open to all.

As a service to the community, other bioinformatics events are posted to the Calendar

Visit our sister groups for bioinformatics events in Montreal (MonBUG) and now Toronto (TorBUG)!

next speakers:

Christopher Hogue

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Thursday, September 12, 2013, 6:00pm

Affiliation:

Senior Director, Joyent Inc., Vancouver

formerly, Principal Investigator, Research Center of Excellence in Mechanobiology, National University of Singapore

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Christopher Hogue

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Trainees are invited to meet with the VanBUG speaker for open discussion of both science and career paths. This takes place 4:30-5:30pm in either the Boardroom or Lunchroom on the ground floor of the BCCRC

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Introductory Speaker:

Artem Babaian, Dixie Mager’s lab, Terry Fox Laboratory

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To view previous VanBUG posters and presentations, please see Archives

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The conference aims to bring together researches with diverse backgrounds interested in 

the origin and evolution of multicellularity. 

Attendance is free but registration is required. Deadline for registration: August 15th, 2013.

Confirmed speakers 

Philip Donoghue 

Douglas H. Erwin

Bettina Schirrmeister 

Aurora Nedelcu 

Pauline Schaap

David C. Queller 

J. Mark Cock 

Maja Adamska

Stuart A. Newman 

Ricard V. Solé

Gregory J. Velicer 

Richard E. Michod

Daniel Richter

Valentina Rossetti

Roberta Fisher

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It's all about interaction and exchange of knowledge in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology. That's why the fourth edition of Iran's Bioinformatics Conference has also brought together professionals and industrial practitioners from all over the country.

Ghanbar Naderi, Press TV, Tehran

FeaturedSpeakers Yaniv Erlich, PhD Principal Investigator, MIT Whitehead Institute Bruce K Patterson, MD CEO and Founder, IncellDx Inc Daniel Caffrey, PhD Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School

The theme of this conference is a range of genetics and genomics topics such as RNAi, Next-generation sequencing, Cancer research, Sequencing, Genome-wide association studies GWAS, Epigenetics, Mapping, Exomes, Genomic medicine, Human Genome Structural Variation, Pharmacogenetics, DNA/RNA Purification, Mutations, Translational Genomics, Bioinformatics, Genotyping, Pharmacogenomics, Screening, Cloning, Gene Expression, Phenotyping, Transcription, Functional Genomics, Synthetic Biology, Genome Engineering, Immunology, qPCR/Real-Time PCR, PCR, Biomarkers, Stem Cell research, Human Identification, Bioproduction, Molecular Diagnostics and much more. Attendees can earn free CME and CEU Credits.

This event will bring together research scientists, post docs, principal investigators, lab directors and professionals from around the world to learn about recent advances in genetics and genomics. This conference offers an amazing opportunity as it is free to participants, and there will be no out-of-pocket expenses for travel. However, participants will still benefit from interacting with a global community of like-minded colleagues, without leaving the comfort of their office or home.

With the advent of genetic and genomic medicine, health care providers will benefit from attending this conference and gain knowledge including the understanding of genetic testing, how to calculate risk and when to refer a patient to a genetic specialist, how the application of genomics will be key to effective prevention and management of many of the most important health-care issues. They will learn skills including the ability to communicate genetic information, how to manage family dynamics, become up to date on tools that are available to help the health-care professionals convey complex genetic information to patients.

This program will help to convey to health care practitioners that genetics and genomics are qualitatively different from all other topics because it underlies all of pathophysiology, and is therefore the fundamental science of health and disease.

Conference participants will be able to:

• Attend interactive live streaming video sessions
• Have their questions answered in real-time by industry experts
• Chat live with peers and speakers
• Browse a virtual exhibit floor for solution providers
• Earn free CME and CEU continuing educationn credits

It gives us immense pleasure to invite you to participate in the International Conference on Health, Environment and Industrial Biotechnology (BioSangam 2013) to be held in 'Kumbh Nagari' Allahabad from November 21-23, 2013.

The conference is being organized by Department of Biotechnology, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad. The conference will be an interactive and scientifically vibrant programme. The conference consists of various sessions including keynote, plenary and parallel sessions. Each session will be addressed by outstanding experts who will highlight recent advances in various facets of biotechnology with focus on emerging trends. It is our privilege to promote young researchers and students from the all over the world.

The conference will provide stimulating platform to the budding scientists. It will also offer them to present their work in front of the eminent experts of their field and compete for various awards like BioSangam Young Scientist Awards- 2013.

The city of Allahabad 'Kumbh Nagari-Prayag' attracts many tourists from various parts of the world where the science meets spirituality. Allahabad is the sacred city not far from Varanasi, where three rivers; Ganges, Yamuna, and the invisible Saraswati (mythical) meet, and continue their journey further. The city's original name Prayaga, or "place of sacrifice" comes from its location at the sacred union (Sangam) of the three rivers. A bath here is said to wash away all of one's sins and free one from the cycle of rebirth. We are happy to invite you and your colleagues to share and enjoy with us a stimulating scientific sangam. We look forward to welcoming you all to our colourful country and its educational city of Allahabad.

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3rd International Conference on Proteomics & Bioinformatics during July 15-17, 2013 at Courtyard by Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, USA.

LOS ANGELES, CA, July 16, 2013 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Marc Wilkins, a PhD student that was studying the combination of proteins and genomics coined a new word 'Proteomics' in 1994 that came into wider circulation by 1997. It is nothing but a detailed and a macro level study on proteins, particularly their structures and functions. They are vital and the primary components for any living organism and an interdisciplinary field that widely make use of ICTs for storing, retrieving, organizing and analyzing the biological data. It is basically used in data mining and archiving.

A branch of Biotechnology is a combination of molecular biology, bio chemistry and genes and analyzes the structures, functions and the interaction of proteins produced by the genes in a particular cell, tissue, or organism. Bioinformatics facilitates innovative ways of handling massive data by providing more improved algorithms. 

The growing importance of this field with the onset of ICTs invoked the OMICS Group to announce its 3rd International Conference on Proteomics & Bioinformatics during July 15-17, 2013 at Courtyard by Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, USA.

Proteomics-2013 conference has been appreciated with a huge gathering from more-than 30 countries. 

Keynote Speakers:

Edward A. Dennis, University of California at San Diego, USA spoke about "Integration of geonomics, proteomics, and metabolomics in the systems biology of lipid metabolism and signaling". He discussed about the evolution and the growth of the Proteomics and its significance over the years to come. Edward A. Dennis is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). 

Tommy Nilsson from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Canada talked about “Lipid droplets at the crossroad of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease”. He discussed about how 2.7% of the lean population and 18.5% of the markedly obese have non-alcoholicsteatohepatitis (NASH). This chronic disease is often preceded by non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) and can deteriorate into non-reversible liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular cancer. Mr. Nilsson completed his doctoral studies at the Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation, USA and at Uppsala University, Sweden. His post-doctoral studies were at Cancer Research UK. Dr. Nilsson is Professor of Medicine at McGill University and Director of Proteomics at McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. 

Jan E. Schnitzer is the Director of PRISM since July 2009. Prior to PRISM, he was Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (1999-2009), where his laboratory received grant support (>$55 million) from NCI, NHLBI, DOD, and California state agencies (TRDRP and CBCRP). Prior to SKCC in 1999, He was an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1990 to 1994, he was an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Institute of Biomedical Engineering. He received a BSE in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and from the University of Pittsburgh Medical School.He did his postdoctoral training at Yale University School of Medicine in the Department of Cell Biology under the mentorship of the Nobel.

Jonathon Coren, Elizabethtown College, USA delivered his talk on “An arrayed human genomic library constructed in the PAC shuttle vector pJCPAC-Mam2 for genome-wide association studies and gene therapy”. This was about the Human Genome Project that has ushered in the era of big science. The International HapMap Project’s original goal was to catalog the millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) present in the population into many haplotypes in an attempt to establish links between certain variants and specific diseases. All of this research has uncovered over 150 risk loci for more than 60 common diseases and traits. Jonathon Coren obtained his Ph.D. in Genetics from Cornell University in 1991. He did a postdoc at Thomas Jefferson University from 1991-1993. Jon next pursued a postdoc in Nat Sternberg's lab at DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company where he modified the P1 bacteriophage cloning system into a P1 Artificial Chromosome (PAC) system. He started as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma in 1999. Jon received a $100, 000 NIH R15 AREA grants HG002216- 01A1 in September of 2001. He started teaching at Elizabethtown College in 2002 and was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2006.

Workshop

Steven Pelech, President& CEO of Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation held a workshop on “Using the open access online Signet Knowledge Bank for Meta analysis of human protein expression, Phosphorylation, kinase-protein and kinase- drug Interaction. 

Future Proteomics Conference:

OMICS Proteomics-2014 has been scheduled during August 04-06, 2014 Chicago, USA

For further details contact

Monica Jordan

Proteomics-2013 Organizing Committee

OMICS Group Conferences 

5716 Corsa Ave., Suite 110,

Westlake, Los Angeles, CA 91362-7354, USA

Tel: 1-650-268-9744 

Fax: 1-650-618-1414

Toll free: 1-800-216-6499

Email: proteomics2013@omicsgroup.co

http://www.omicsonline.org/contact.php

Monica Jordan

OMICS Group Conferences

+1-650-268-9744

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The LSCC holds fortnightly meetings for the wider NGS community. Talks range from biologists presenting their research problem which require an NGS solution, to technical talks describing details of analysis pipelines. The focus of these events is to bring the community together, sharing information and encouraging active discussions and interactions. Talks are held every second Friday at 2.30pm in the VLSCI boardroom. If you would like the valuable opportunity to present at one of these meetings, email Andrew Lonie. Also see the list of 2011 talks.

Date	Presenter	Topic
18 July 2013	Melissa Davis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ	Network and pathway analysis in systems biology
5 July 2013	Fernando Rossello	Understanding Cancer through NGS - Bioinformatics at the Centre for Cancer Research - MIMR
21 June 2013	Andrew Lonie	Bio-IT Asia conference report
24 May 2013	Gabe Kolle, Senior Bioinformatics Support Scientist at Illumina	DNA and RNA sequencing pipelines for Illumina MiSeq and HiSeq
9 May 2013	David Goode	Employing a consensus approach to improve somatic mutation prediction accuracy
12 April 2013	Mahtab Mirmomeni & Ben Goudey	Coverage in denovo assembly
12 April 2013	Ben Goudey	Approaches to multivariate GWAS analysis
15 March 2013	Juan Nunez-Iglesias & Nick Wong	Epigenomics at Lorne
1 March 2013	Clare Sloggett & Gayle Philip	Lorne Conference Summaries
16 November 2012	Luisa Teasdale	NGS for evolutionary biology Read more