advanced
course on
JULY 21-25, 2014
Biology Department and
CESAM
University of Aveiro
3810-193 Aveiro
general
information
Bioinformatics of microbial
genomes and mobile
elements:
New perspectives and
applications
In the last decades, sequencing of microbial genomes has
generated a huge amount of information stored in public
databases. As a consequence, Bioinformatics analyses
have emerged as valuable tools for genomic research,
allowing the exploration of new hypotheses in such large
data sets. This course provides an introduction to
bioinformatics and training on various aspects of data
analysis with application to Microbiology. This part of the
course will be conducted by EMBL-EBI trainers.
Researchers from the University of Aveiro, Porto, Coimbra
and other research institutions will present case studies
oriented towards practical applications of up-to-date
bioinformatics tools.
Applicants should be scientists, post-graduation students
(PhD or MSc) or laboratory staff with background in
Biology, Microbiology, Environmental Sciences, or related
fields.
All lectures and training sessions will be held in English.
confirmed
lecturers
registration
and fees
Denise Carvalho-Silva, Tom Hancocks, Sandra Orchard
EMBL-EBI, UK
Cláudia Oliveira, Ana Sofia Duarte, António Correia
DeBio & CESAM, UAveiro, Portugal
Fernando Tavares & Pedro Albuquerque
CIBIO, UPorto, Portugal
Pedro Alberto & Pedro Almeida
Laboratory of Advanced Computing, Ucoimbra, Portugal
Sónia Martins
Coimbra Genomics, Biocant, Portugal
Joel P. Arrais
DEI, Ucoimbra, Portugal
Alexandra Moura
Institute Pasteur, France
Limited to 25 participants; 10 vacancies are for students
enrolled in the doctoral programmes of DBIO-UA;
The fee for other participants is 150 euros; acceptance will be
based on the order of arrival of applications and regularization
of payment;
Registration is now open; applications after July 1st 2014 will
not be considered.
advanced
course on
Bioinformatics of microbial
genomes and mobile elements:
JULY 21-25, 2014
Biology Department and
CESAM
University of Aveiro
3810-193 Aveiro
course
structure
New
perspectives
applications
and
The first 3 days of the course are dedicated to bioinformatics
training provided by an EMBL-EBI, UK team:
Modules and Resources
Ensembl Genomes
Overview of EBI Resources
Sequence searching and alignment
Protein function and classification
Interactions and pathways
The second part of the course consists on lectures and practical
sessions by internal and external speakers, focused on
bioinformatics applications to case studies in microbiology
Modules
Mobile genetic element analyses
In silico characterization of bacterial enzymes
Clusters for advanced computing
High resolution methods for bacterial detection
Bioinformatics tools for genome-based pathogen surveillance
Validation of molecular markers for bacteria detection and
genotyping
coordination
Cláudia Oliveira, António Correia
organizing
committee
Cláudia Oliveira, António Correia, Sónia Martins,
Alexandra Moura and Sarah Morgan
contact
Cláudia Oliveira
Tel: +351234370774; email: [email protected]