bioinformatics-list September 2017

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Phylomania 2017
by Michael Charleston 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

Hello! If there’s anyone out there who hasn’t yet heard of phylogenetics, or didn’t know that the University of Tasmania is the home of the strongest group of researchers working on it in Australia, well… you need to get out more. In particular, you need to get out to phylogenetics conferences! Oh look – here’s one: This is a call to register to attend Phylomania 2017 - The 9th Annual conference of the UTAS Theoretical Phylogenetics group, to be held 6th-8th December in Hobart, Tasmania. This year it will be combined with the 2017 Australasian Evolution Society meeting<https://aesconference2017.wordpress.com/>, running from 4th to 6th December. Yes, there’s a deliberate day of overlap (including the combined conference dinner). Phylomania (and the AES meeting) will be held within the School of Physical Sciences at the Sandy Bay campus of the University of Tasmania. The meeting will bring together mathematicians and biologists to discuss current research in phylogenetics and related areas. If your presentation is likely to also suit the AES audience then you can indicate that you’d like it to be considered for that combined day, when you register. There’s also a place there for you to enter an abstract: if you do, use normal text, html, or LaTeX. If you only have a (rough!) title just now that’s fine, you can update us with more information closer to the conference. You can bring a talk, or a poster, or both! All the details and some pertinent local information can be found at the meeting website http://www.maths.utas.edu.au/phylomania/phylomania2017.htm. General registration is set at $175, with a reduced rate of $120 for students, to cover catering. The conference dinner is $75. The AES has the same costing, and there’s a discount rate for the whole combined conference of $300 ($200 for students). To register please use the form on the website given above, and payment is through that page too. Please do feel free to forward this announcement to others who may be interested in attending — the more the merrier! Best wishes, Mike Charleston and the Theoretical Phylogenetics Group<http://www.maths.utas.edu.au/People/Holland/theoreticalPhylogenetics.htm> Michael Charleston Associate Professor in Bioinformatics Co-director of Data, Knowledge and Decisions Research Theme Head of UTAS node of EMBL-ABR School of Physical Sciences University of Tasmania AUSTRALIA phone: +61 3 6226 2444 p.s. Phylogenetics is the discipline of uncovering the evolutionary relationships among species back in time, from data that we observe in the present. It’s a statistical process, involving groovy maths and big computers, and it has massive importance in biology – it’s the statistical framework to compare species, after all. University of Tasmania Electronic Communications Policy (December, 2014). This email is confidential, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone outside the intended recipient organisation is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily the views of the University of Tasmania, unless clearly intended otherwise.

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Fwd: National Research Collections Australia (NCRA) PhD top-up scholarship
by Michael Charleston 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

An interesting looking PhD project with top-up scholarship: National Research Collections Australia (NRCA) top-up scholarship: A molecular view of Australian biodiversity - exploring insect genomes for major shifts in functional genes<http://cba.anu.edu.au/opportunities/student-research/projects-opportunities…> CSIRO’s collections<https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Collections> are vast storehouses of information about Australia’s biodiversity. These world-class repositories provide base-line data against which modern observations can be compared making them essential for taxonomic, genetic, agricultural and ecological research, and conservation and resource management. Starting in 2018, this PhD project will use CSIRO’s collection resources in combination with DNA barcodes, Whole Genome Shotgun sequences and 600 recently sequenced transcriptomes to build the tree of life for selected Australian insect groups, exploring genomes for functional genes within this evolutionary context. The student will be located in Canberra at the Australian National Insect Collection<https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Collections/ANIC> (co-superviser Dr Andreas Zwick) and the Research School of Biology<http://biology.anu.edu.au/> at the Australian National University (co-superviser Prof Craig Moritz). This CSIRO National Research Collections top-up scholarship will award $7,000pa stipend and $10,000pa operating. Please see here<http://cba.anu.edu.au/opportunities/student-research/projects-opportunities…> for more information about the project, supervisor details and how to apply. Applications close 31 October. [cid:FD20DB4D-BFA6-4DCE-A791-7F43959907E2@uds.anu.edu.au] Michael Charleston Associate Professor in Bioinformatics Co-director of Data, Knowledge and Decisions Research Theme Head of UTAS node of EMBL-ABR School of Physical Sciences University of Tasmania AUSTRALIA phone: +61 3 6226 2444 University of Tasmania Electronic Communications Policy (December, 2014). This email is confidential, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone outside the intended recipient organisation is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily the views of the University of Tasmania, unless clearly intended otherwise.

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Single cell sequencing workshop or Gene-editing symposium? And late breaking awards!
by Jac Charlesworth 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

As part of the upcoming Australasian Genomics conference<http://agtaconference.org/> being held in Hobart Oct 29-Nov 1st there are two pre-conference workshops that are open to local participants for $40 (or $20 for students). Choose between a Gene-Editing Symposium or a Single Cell Sequencing workshop. Both include great speakers as well as food! The workshops are concurrent on Sunday the 29th of October, prior to the official conference opening. More info can be found here: http://agtaconference.org/pre-conference-workshops/ Also, AGTA have announced three 'late-breaking' awards for posters submitted to AGTA17 between now and September 22nd - so if you have some interesting genomics to showcase now is the time to submit! More info on the awards at: http://agtaconference.org/late-breaking-poster-awards/ There's registration discounts for members and groups of three or more. Or you can just contact me if you want info on any of it! Best wishes, Jac Dr Jac Charlesworth Senior Research Fellow - Computational Genomics Menzies Institute for Medical Research University of Tasmania p 6226 4607 | m 0424 709 440 | f 6226 7704 17 Liverpool St (Private Bag 23) Hobart TAS 7001 | www.menzies.utas.edu.au<http://www.menzies.utas.edu.au/> Convenor of #AGTA17 | agtaconference.org<http://agtaconference.org/> [AGTA-email-banner]<http://agtaconference.org/> University of Tasmania Electronic Communications Policy (December, 2014). This email is confidential, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone outside the intended recipient organisation is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily the views of the University of Tasmania, unless clearly intended otherwise.

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