[VanBUG] Gene Screen BC Film Competition
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/ ———————————————————————- Genome BC and BC Clinical Genomics Network are hosting the 3rd Annual Gene Screen BC Film Competition. This is a contest to honor short videos that educate, inform and […]
MISTRY – Doctoral Exam Friday, July 6, 2012
Mistry Programme
Ph.D. EXIT SEMINAR – Warren Cheung
Ph.D. EXIT SEMINAR Warren Cheung B.Sc., Computer Science and Microbiology at UBC, 2003 M.Sc, Computer Science at UBC, 2007 Friday, July 6th, 2012 at 11 AM LOCATION: Lecture Theatre, BCCRC Inferring Novel Relationships through Over-Representation Analysis of Medical Subjects in Biomedical Bibliographies Abstract: MEDLINE®/PubMed® is a richly annotated resource of over 21 million article citations, […]
M.Sc. EXIT SEMINAR – Ryan Giuliany
M.Sc. EXIT SEMINAR Ryan Giuliany, B.Sc., UBC, 2010 Friday, June 29th, 2012 – 11:00 am Location: BCCRC Lecture Theatre – 675 West 10th Avenue Probabilistic Modeling of RNA-editing in Human Cancers RNA-editing is the post-transcriptional enzymatic modification of RNA molecules resulting in an altered nucleotide sequence. These modifications play a critical role in mammalian tissues […]
Ph.D. EXIT SEMINAR Meeta Mistry
Ph.D. EXIT SEMINAR Meeta Mistry B.Sc., McMaster University, Hamilton ON Friday, June 22nd, 2012 at 11 AM LOCATION: Lecture Theatre, BCCRC Meta-analyses of expression profiling data in the postmortem human Abstract: Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric illness for which the precise etiology remains unknown. Studies using postmortem human brain have become increasingly important in schizophrenia […]
Master’s Exit Seminar – Evan Morien – Friday, June 15
M.Sc. EXIT SEMINAR Evan Morien B.Sc., SUNY at Buffalo, US, 2007 Friday, June 15th, 2012 at 11 AM LOCATION: Lecture Theatre, BCCRC Characterization of the Wild Salmon Transcriptome Abstract: Pacific salmon are ecologically and economically important, but populations have been declining and fluctuating unpredictably for the past few decades. Sockeye salmon in particular have been […]
Edward Tufte, One-Day-Course, Seattle WA, July 23-24
Eward Tufte is doing a presentation on “Presenting Data and Information” on July 23-24 in Seattle WA. This would be a good opportunity for any of the students in the bioinformatics training program as there is a sizeable discount for students ($200 which includes all his books). More information on course content can be found […]
[VanBUG] Bioinformatics Event: Privacy-Preserving Sharing and Analysis of Human Genomic Data
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/ ———————————————————————- *** SFU Computational Biology Seminar special summer meeting *** Speaker: Haixu Tang School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University, Bloomington Title: Privacy-Preserving Sharing and Analysis of Human Genomic Data […]
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 […]
MOROZOVA – Doctoral Exam Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Morozova Programme