Journal club paper
Hi all, This week Jolande will present and lead the discussion with the following paper: Paper: “Cerebral: Visualizing Multiple Experimental Conditions on a Graph with Biological Context” Place: X530 Time: Thursday Oct 23, 3:00pm-4:00pm Everyone is welcome to join. Thanks, Fatemeh
Travel awards available to non-CIHR training program students
There are 7 travel awards of $500 each available to non-CIHR training program students (that is because CIHR training program students all receive travel awards already in their first 2 years).These are available now and up until April 30, 2015. To qualify: 1) Must be presenting a poster or a talk at the conference (some […]
[VanBUG] Gairdner Symposium – October 27 4-6pm
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/ ———————————————- Gairdner Symposium Date: Monday, October 27, 4– 6pm Location: Life Sciences Centre, Lecture Theatre 2 (LSC 2), UBC, 2350 Health Sciences Mall Don’t miss this opportunity to listen to two dynamic and high […]
Unique Opportunity for Students and Researchers to Win $150K
I am a Canadian graduate student currently studying at Stanford and am helping to lead an initiative designed to engage students, researchers and postdocs in life science entrepreneurship. OneStart, now in its third year, is a business plan competition and accelerator program for burgeoning bio-entrepreneurs (and non-research students interested in entrepreneurship). The grand prize is […]
TAship for Problem-based Learning (BIOF 520/MBB 505) – CV due Oct 31
Hi All, Dr. Steve Jones is looking a TA for his course that starts Jan and runs until April 2014. Part of the duties will include teaching a module, as well as other specified duties, such as marking assignments, depending on who applies for the position. If you are interested in this position, Please send […]
PhD Thesis Proposal
Hi All, I’ll be defending my thesis proposal next Monday, October 20th. Everyone is welcome to attend! Cheers, Jiarui ========== Chair: Dr. Raymond Ng Committee: Dr. Samuel Aparicio and Dr. Will Evans Supervisors: Dr. Sohrab Shah and Dr. Anne Condon Title: Computational Integration of Heterogeneous Data to Uncover the Biology of Cancer Abstract: Cancer is […]
[VanBUG] Seminar Announcement: “Trans-Omics for Personalized Translational Medicine”
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Summer school: whole cell modeling
Whole-cell modeling summer school March 9-13, 2015 | Rostock, Germany We are pleased to announce the hackathon-style summer school to be held next year in Rostock, Germany, with the aim of developing an open version of the Karr et al. whole-cell model (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22817898). The primary aim for the participants of the summer school is to […]
Bioinformatics reading for this week
Hi all, This week, we will have our first bioinformatics reading group discussing the following paper: Paper: “Bayesian Inference for Tumour Subclone Accounting for Sequencing and Structural Variants” Place: X530 Time: Thursday oct 9, 3:00pm – 4:00pm I will lead the discussion and every one is welcome to join! Thanks, Fatemeh