Program News
Any news that is relevant to both faculty and students
SAVE THE DATE: Annual Cancer Conference November 29 – December 1, 2012
2012 BC Cancer Agency Conference Program Driven by Revolutionary Changes in Oncology Dear Colleagues, Please Save the Date for the BC Cancer Agency’s interdisciplinary annual cancer conference, scheduled from November 29 through December 1, 2012 at the Westin Bayshore Vancouver. The most highly regarded meeting of its kind in Canada, the three-day event provides critical [...]
[VanBUG] Thurs, Mar 8, 6pm – Nathan Price, ISB – Integrated modeling of metabolic and regulatory networks
Please post poster available at http://vanbug.org —————————————————————- Next VanBUG (Vancouver Bioinformatics User Group) talk is on Thursday, March 8 at 6pm. The seminar is followed by pizza, refreshments and great networking. *Intro speaker* (10mins): Evan Morien, MSc candidate, Pavlidis lab, CHiBi, UBC Title: Genomic Expression Patterns in Wild Pacific Salmon *Featured speaker*: Nathan Price, Associate [...]
[VanBUG] Bioinformatics Event: New Semantic Web Meetup: SPARQL tutorial
The VanBUG team occasionally forwards events of interest to the local bioinformatics community. The upcoming event is posted on the Bioinformatics Event Calendar at: http://www.vanbug.org/calendar/ ———————————————————————- New Semantic Web Meetup: SPARQL tutorial, by Luke McCarthy Where: Dorothy Lam boardroom, BCCRC When: Wednesday, February 29th 2012, 6pm Abstract: RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a language for [...]
Reminder: BTP/IOP Retreat registration!
Dear BTP and IOP student, You are invited to our annual Bioinformatics & Oncology Research Day, where you’ll have the opportunity to present your work and find out about the fascinating, interdisciplinary research presently going on around you. Highlights include guest speakers, poster sessions, lunch and dinner buffets, lightning talks, and prizes to be won! [...]
[VanBUG] Speakers Feb 9, Mar 8, Apr 12
Mark your calendars with VanBUG talks and networking at 6pm Thurs Feb 9, Thurs Mar 8, Thurs Apr 12. We provide feeds for Google Calendar or other iCal-based calendars at http://www.vanbug.org/calendar/ *Feb 9*, 2012 Short Presentation: Warren Cheung, PhD candidate, Wasserman Lab, CMMT Title: Biomedical Topic Profiles from Bibliographical Literature Evidence Featured Speaker: William Hsaio, [...]
APBC2013 The Eleventh Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference
APBC2013 The Eleventh Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference Website: APBC2013 Vancouver, BC, Canada 21-24 January 2013 APBC2013 Call for Papers The Eleventh Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada. APBC2013 invites high quality original full papers on any topic related to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The submitted papers must have not been published [...]
Candidate speakers for statistical genomics
The Statistics Department is about to interview 5 candidates for a Tier 2 CRC in Statistical Genomics. Would you please help me circulate the info below to Bioinformatics and GSAT faculty? That is actually the best way I know to advertise to non-Statistics people who might be interested in some of these talks. I will [...]
BTP/IOP retreat 2012
Dear BTP and IOP student, You are invited to our annual Bioinformatics & Oncology Research Day, where you’ll have the opportunity to present your work and find out about the fascinating, interdisciplinary research presently going on around you. Highlights include guest speakers, poster sessions, lunch and dinner buffets, lightning talks, and prizes to be won! [...]
PhD Exit Seminar – Leon French – Friday, January 13th – 11:00 am BCCRC lecture theatre
EXIT SEMINAR Leon French B.Sc. Computer Science, University of Windsor, 2003 M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Windsor, 2005 Friday, Jan 13, 2012 at 11 AM LOCATION: Lecture Theatre, BCCRC Bioinformatics for Neuroanatomical Connectivity Abstract: Neuroscience research is increasingly dependent on bringing together large amounts of data collected at the molecular, anatomical, functional and behavioural levels. [...]
[VanBUG] next VanBUG Thurs, Feb 9
The next VanBUG event will take place Thursday, February 9, 2012. Featured speaker: William Hsiao, Scientist, BC Centre for Disease Control There will be no VanBUG event in January. Stefanie Butland for the VanBUG team Cedric Chauve Bhavjinder Dhillon Rodrigo Goya Elodie Portales-Casamar VanBUG is generously sponsored by the CIHR Bioinformatics Training Program, MITACS, PIMS, [...]
