April 8-14, 2007
Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Nowadays, in developing countries, the number of people trained in comparative genomics is still small. On the other hand, many methodologies and approaches have become
available in this area to be used and applied to extract biological information from genomes. At the same time, it has been difficult to keep pace with the growth in databases
of sequences, structures, interactions and reactions. This practical course is aimed for specialists and advanced students from the biomedical sciences, computing sciences and
bioinformatics, and it has been designed to provide prospective students with the facilities to carry out their research in such an information-rich scientific society. The main aim is to
attract advanced PhD students, post-doctoral researchers or equivalent. These students will also be given an opportunity to bring and present their own material and have some expert
advice on their work, so that they can return home with practical skills that can be also passed on to their work colleagues.

Organizing Committee

Alberto M. R. Dávila , Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ
James McInerney, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Guilherme de Oliveira, CPqRR, FIOCRUZ
Maria Luiza Machado Campos - DCC/NCE, UFRJ
Maria Claudia Cavalcanti - IME
Marta Mattoso - UFRJ

Conference Venue
Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ
Av. Brasil 4365, RJ, Rio de Janeiro.BrazilCEP 21045-900

Schedule

Monday 8th April 2007
9:00-11:00 am introduction
11:00-11:30 Coffee break/discussion
11:30-12:30 Student presentations
1:30-3:30 Practical session I (Multiple alignments)
3:30-3:45 Coffee break
3:45-5:00 Practical session II (Structural alignments)
5:00 Seminar (James McInerney)

Tuesday 9th April 2007
9:00-11:00 am Lecture 2 (Peer Bork)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break/discussion
11:30-12:30 Student presentations
1:30-3:30 Practical session I (Functional annotation and protein analyses)
3:30-3:45 Coffee
3:45-5:00 Practical session II (Functional annotation and protein analyses)
5:00 Seminar (staff member II)

Wednesday 10th April 2007
9:00-11:00 am Lecture 3 (Christine Orengo)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break/discussion
11:30-12:30 Practical session I (Protein domain analyses)
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Practical session II (Protein domain analyses)
3:30-3:45 Coffee
3:45-5:00 Practical session III (Orthology/Paralogy identification)
5:00 Seminar (staff member IIII)

Thursday 11th April 2007
9:00-11:00 am Lecture 4 (Mar Albà )
11:00-11:30 Coffee break/discussion
11:30-12:30 Practical session I (Orthology/Paralogy identification)
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Practical session II (Evolutionary genomics)
3:30-3:45 Coffee
3:45-5:00 Practical session III (Evolutionary genomics)
5:00 Seminar (staff member IV)

Friday 12th April 2007
9:00-11:00 am Lecture 5 (James McInerney)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break/discussion
11:30-12:30 Practical session I (Phylogenetic reconstruction)
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Practical session II (Phylogenetic reconstruction)
3:30-3:45 Coffee
3:45-5:00 Practical session III (G.A.R.S.A.)
5:00 Seminar (staff member V)

Saturday 13th April 2007
9:00-11:00 am Lecture 6 (Alberto Dávila)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break/discussion
11:30-12:30 Practical session I (G.A.R.S.A.)
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Practical session II (Genomics Unified Schema)
3:30-3:45 Coffee
3:45-5:00 Practical session III (Genomics Unified Schema)
7:00 Course dinner.

Sunday 14th April 2007
9:00-11:00 am Round table discussion I
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Round table discussion II
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Course summary, revision and one-to-one discussion of students own data.
3:30 Course ends.

Hotel

Invited speakers and participants will be accomodated at the Paysandu Hotel.

Important Dates

Application deadline: December 17th

How to apply

Applications can be submitted by email to info AT biowebdb.org (replace AT by @)

You must submit a short (2 page) CV, along with one paragraph that states explicitly why you should be a student on the course, how you expect to benefit from it and how you are going to use this information in your research.

A total of twenty applicants will be selected: 6 participants will be from Europe, 5 from Brazil, and 9 from the rest of South America.

Supported by:

EMBO

Fogarty International Center

Oswaldo Cruz Institute

FIOCRUZHotel web site