Tag: Seminars of Interest Around Davis

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The Genome Center and School of Medicine would like to present faculty candidate:

Justin Siegel, Ph. D

University of Washington, Seattle

“Metagenomic Enzyme Design”

Friday, April 6, 2012

12:00-1:00 p.m.

4202 GBSF

Siegel search flyer 2 [Read-Only] [Compatibility Mode].pdf

Capturing Biological Diversity at Northern California Nature Preserves

Saturday, 31 March, 2012

Bay Area Biosystematists Meeting at Fairfield Osborn Preserve, Sonoma State University

Northern California is a biologically rich environment where many lineages of organisms from diverse origins have come together and have rapidly diversified. It is also a populated region with diverse land uses, an environment-conscious population, and many invasive species that threaten native ecological communities. Environmental change models offer differing predictions about future conditions in the region. Our speakers will describe the coverage of topographic and biological diversity found in the North Coast region, especially in nature preserves. They will also describe current efforts to document long-term changes in the environment.

Program organized by Nathan Rank and Claudia Luke of Sonoma State University.

Speakers:

Claudia Luke, Sonoma State University Nature Preserves- Introduction to topic and speakers.

Lisa Micheli, Pepperwood Preserve- Ground up development of a network to quantify biotic and environmental change in the North Coast region.

Stuart Weiss, Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Think Big, Connect More: The Bay Area Conservation Lands Network.

Schedule and venue:

2:00 – Guided tour of Preserve trails. We will explore ponds and creeks and visit an overlook with chapparal vegetation. We will also observe invertebrate and amphibian diversity in Preserve wetland habitats.

5:30 – Pizza, salad, and beverages at Fairfield Osborn Preserve Education Center (6544 Lichau Road, Penngrove CA) cost approx. $12.

6:30 – talks followed by discussion.

Please email RSVP to Nathan Rank, rank@sonoma.edu by Thursday March 29th. Please specify whether you wish to come on the Preserves guided tour at 2:00 or just to the pizza and talks.

For directions, enter the address above into Google Maps or download directions at (http://www.sonoma.edu/preserves/docs/application/osborn_directions.pdf). Parking is free, carpooling encouraged.

All are welcome, members or not. If you want to join the Biosystematists, a venerable yet exceptionally lively group that provides the only inter-institutional seminar/discussion forum addressing evolutionary topics in the Bay Area, visit our website at: http://www.biosystematists.org/ to sign up for our mailing list.

Call for abstracts: Automated Function Prediction, 2012

Locale: Long Beach, California USA
Date: July 14, 2012 (Just before ISMB 2012)
URL: http://biofunctionprediction.org

Important dates:

April 18, 20112: Deadline for submitting abstracts.

May 9, 2011: Notifications for accepted abstracts e-mailed to
corresponding authors

May 16, 2011: Deadline for presenters to confirm acceptance of
invitation to speak.

July 14, 2011: AFP SIG preceding ISMB 2012

An ISMB Special Interest Group Meeting

Automated Protein Function Prediction

Sequence and structure genomics have generated a wealth of data, but
extracting meaningful information from genomic information is becoming
an increasingly difficult challenge. Both the number and the diversity
of discovered sequences are increasing, while the fraction of genes
whose function is known is decreasing.In addition, there is a need for
annotation which is standardized so that it could be incorporated into
function
annotation on a large scale. Finally, there is a need to assess the
quality of the function
prediction software which is out there.

For these reasons and many more, automated protein function prediction
is rapidly gaining interest among computational biologists in academia
and industry.

The AFP SIG has been part of ISMB since 2005.
We call upon all researchers involved in gene and protein function
prediction to submit an abstract to the AFP meeting. Authors of select
abstracts will be invited to give a talk and/or present a poster.

This year, AFP is delighted to have Jonathan Eisen from the University of
California, Davis as its keynote speaker. Prof. Eisen is a pioneer in the
field of function prediction.

>From his lab page:
http://bobcat.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

"Dr. Eisen has published more than 200 scientific papers and is a co-author
of a relatively recently published Evolution
Textbook<http://evolution-textbook.org/>.
Dr. Eisen is also a strong proponent of the Open Access movement in
scientific publishing and is Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS
Biology<http://www.plosbiology.org/>.
Dr. Eisen is also an active and award winning science blogger (see his Tree
of Life blog here <http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/>). For recent news
see http://twitter.com/phylogenomics" <http://twitter.com/phylogenomics>

For further instructions on how to submit abstracts to AFP 2012, please go
here:

http://biofunctionprediction.org/node/415

We are looking forward to seeing you in Long Beach, California!

Iddo Friedberg on behalf of the AFP organizing committee

From Agilent:

I wanted to let you know that Agilent will be hosting a Next Generation Sequencing Lunch & Learn next Tuesday, March 27th, from 11:00-1:00 in GBSF – Room 4202, which we’d like to invite you, and your lab, to attend. We will be covering all of our target enrichment technologies (SureSelect, HaloPlex and Methyl-Seq) as well as discussing a new addition to our electrophoresis portfolio, the TapeStation. We hope you and your colleagues can attend! Please let me know if you have any questions.

Kind regards,

Jamie

Jamie Andalis

Davis Lunch Learn Flyer (3).pdf

TO: EVE Personnel

EVE is advertising for a Summer Session II Lecturer for EVE 100 – Intro to Evolution. See attached notice. The service period is August 6 – September 14.

SSLEC12.doc

From Hilmar Lapp

The 2012 conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio) is offering limited funds for travel expenses for the 2012 iEvoBio meeting in Ottawa, Canada. Preference will be given to participants lacking sources of funding for meeting attendance, such as graduate students, emerging professionals, and participants from underrepresented groups and countries. Please explain in an attached document the need for funding, the benefit that attending iEvoBio will afford you and how you will contribute to the meeting (max 350 words). We are looking for do-ers! A brief letter of support from your advisor, supervisor, or professional mentor should be submitted to the organizing committee (electronically), together with the application headed by the information below, to travelaward by the deadline of 15 April 2012.

Participants are required to make all their own travel arrangements, including visas and lodging, if required.

Application format:

Name:
Contact information (address/phone/email):
Academic Institution:
Role (student, researcher, etc.):
Origination of travel (if different from home institution) and estimated travel expenses:
Explain the benefit that attending iEvoBio will afford you and what you will bring to the meeting (350 words or less):

Bay Area Biosystematists Meeting: Saturday, 31 March, 2012

at Fairfield Osborn Preserve, Sonoma State University

Capturing Biological Diversity at Northern California Nature Preserves

Northern California is a biologically rich environment where many lineages of organisms from diverse origins have come together and have rapidly diversified. It is also a populated region with diverse land uses, an environment-conscious population, and many invasive species that threaten native ecological communities. Environmental change models offer differing predictions about future conditions in the region. Our speakers will describe the coverage of topographic and biological diversity found in the North Coast region, especially in nature preserves. They will also describe current efforts to document long-term changes in the environment.

Program organized by Nathan Rank and Claudia Luke of Sonoma State University.

Speakers:

Claudia Luke, Sonoma State University Nature Preserves– Introduction to topic and speakers.

Lisa Micheli, Pepperwood Preserve– Ground up development of a network to quantify biotic and environmental change in the North Coast region.

Stuart Weiss, Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Think Big, Connect More: The Bay Area Conservation Lands Network.

Schedule and venue:

2:00 – Guided tour of Preserve trails. We will explore ponds and creeks and visit an overlook with chapparal vegetation. We will also observe invertebrate and amphibian diversity in Preserve wetland habitats.

5:30 – Pizza, salad, and beverages at Fairfield Osborn Preserve Education Center (6544 Lichau Road, Penngrove CA) cost approx. $12.

6:30 – talks followed by discussion.

Please email RSVP to Nathan Rank, rank by Sunday Mar 25. Please specify whether you wish to come on the Preserves guided tour at 2:00 or just to the pizza and talks.

For directions, enter the address above into Google Maps or download directions at (http://www.sonoma.edu/preserves/docs/application/osborn_directions.pdf). Parking is free, carpooling encouraged.

All are welcome, members or not. If you want to join the Biosystematists, a venerable yet exceptionally lively group that provides the only inter-institutional seminar/discussion forum addressing evolutionary topics in the Bay Area, visit our website at: http://www.biosystematists.org/ to sign up for our mailing list.