The 8th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics Training Course (February, 2009)
Announcement
We are pleased to announce that "The 8th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatic Training Course" will be held at the Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in February 25-28, 2009.
This time we will also organize a "Bioinformatics Symposium" at which the lecturers of the training course talk about their original research topics. The trainees are expected to attned this Symposium, as well.
If you wish to participate in this training course as a trainee, please apply now (see below for application) !
What's New
(Feb. 5, 2009) Bioinformatics Symposium program was slightly changed.
(Feb. 19, 2009) Training course rogram was slightly changed.
Outline
Venue:- Kyoto University Main Campus, Kyoto, Japan
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- Training Course: South Building, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies
- Bioinformatics Symposium: Room 120, Second Building of Faculty of Science
- Home Page of Kyoto University http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en
- Period:
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- Training Course: February 25th(Wednesday), 2009 - February 27th(Friday), 2009 (3 days)
- Bioinformatics Symposium:February 28th(Saturday) , 2009
- Organizers:
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- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Center for Information Biology and DDBJ (CIB-DDBJ) at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG)
- Korean BioInformation Center (KOBIC) at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB),
- Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology (SCBIT)
- Program:
- See below (Lecture titles are not decided yet. Details will be announced soon.)
- Language:
- English
- Trainees:
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- Ten trainees from each of the three countries, 30 in total.
- The number of the trainees from Japan is limited to 10.
- The trainee is expected to be either a graduate student or a postdoc in bioinformatic or a related area who is fluent in English.
- Fees:
- The attendance fee is free. Moreover, the trainees are covered with travel expenses, lodging and meals. He/She is also provided with a PC linked with Internet during the course.
- Application:
- Closed
- Qualification requirement
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- An applicant should be a Japanese or a non-Japanese person who is studying in Japan as a graduate school student or a post-doctral fellow, formally accepted by a Japanese university or a research institute.
- Others:
- Reports of the past attendants will be helpful for your application
- Related Web sites
- == Lecturers ==
| Name (Affiliation) | |||||
Japan |
T: | ||||
| Dr. IKEO Kazuho (NIG) | T: | Use of DDBJ databases and its web services | |||
| S: | (title to be announced soon) | ||||
| T: | KEGG as a reference database for omics data analysis | ||||
| Dr. KINJO Akira (Osaka U.) | T: | Use of PDBj databases and related softwares | |||
| S: | Diversity and Universality of Protein Ligand Binding Sites | ||||
| Dr. SAITOU Naruya (NIG) | S: | Evolution of protein non-coding DNA region in vertebrates | |||
| Dr. TATENO Yoshio (NIG) | S: | Genome scale construction and evaluation of bacterial phylogeny | |||
Korea |
Dr.Jong Bhak (KOBIC) | T: | Omics, Interactomics, and Genomics | ||
| S: | Korean Genome Sequence Analysis | ||||
| Dr.Seungwoo Hwang(KOBIC) | T: | Key concepts in microarray data analysis | |||
| S: | Reconstruction of vertebrate phylogeny using whole genome data | ||||
| Dr.Daehee Hwang(POSTECH) | T: | From proteomics toward Systems Biology | |||
| S: | Exosome-based systems biology | ||||
| Dr.Heebal Kim(SNU) | T: | Finding positive selection signature from genome-wide sequence data | |||
| S: | Improvement of prediction and feature detection of microarray data by regularized variable selection methods | ||||
China |
Dr. Li Yixue (SIBS) | T: | Genome-wide Regulatory Network Analysis | ||
| S: | Modeling human genome-wide combinatorial regulatory networks initiated by transcription factors and microRNAs using forward and reverse engineering | ||||
| Dr. Liu Lei (SIBS) | T: | Microarray Data Analysis | |||
| S: | Gene expression module based chemical similarity search | ||||
| Dr. Xie Lu (SCBIT) | T: | Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis | |||
| S: | The prognostic role of a gene signature from highly tumorigenic liver cancer cells | ||||
| Dr. Wei Chaochun (SJU) | T: | Gene Prediction Methods and Algorithms | |||
| S: | Estimation of gene numbers in human gut microbiaial communities: overall genes and core genes | ||||
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NIG: National Institute of Genetics Osaka U.: Osaka University Kyoto U.: Kyoto University KOBIC: Korean BioInformation Center POSTECH: Pohang University of Science and Technology SNU: Seoul National University SIB: Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences SCBIT: Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology SJU.: Shanghai Jiaotong University |