[alife] 2nd CFP: 1st COBRA Summer School on Biological and Chemical Information Technologies (BioChemITSchool2012)

Peter Dittrich dittrich at minet.uni-jena.de
Thu Jul 19 04:43:07 PDT 2012


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      1st COBRA Summer School on Biological and Chemical
         Information Technologies (BioChemITSchool2012)
          9. - 21. September 2012, San Candido, Italy
              www.cobra-project.eu/summerschool.html
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                    20 FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE
 covering full tuition, accommodation for 12 nights, and half board
               application deadline: 31 July 2012
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* Scope:

The COBRA Summer School on Biological and Chemical IT will cover
different aspects of biological and chemical information technology
(BioChem IT). This includes topics such as:

- - Chemical computing
- - Molecular computing
- - Bacterial computing
- - Protocell technologies
- - Electronic chemical cells
- - Hybrid microfluidic systems

During the two weeks students will learn state-of-the-art modelling and
simulation approaches as well as actual implementations of BioChem
IT. Lectures will be provided by an interdisciplinary faculty taken
from physics, chemistry, biology and computer science, guaranteeing a
creative mix of theory and practice. Beside lectures, the school will
include significant space for workgroups, where students can interact
in small teams that will form at the beginning of the school.


* Who organises the summer school?

The school is organised by the COBRA Coordination Action
(www.cobra-project.eu), supported by the European Commission FP7
Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive initiative. The project
acronym stands for Coordination of Biological and Chemical IT Research
Activities, and our main objective is to act as a unifying focus for
bio/chem IT, across a range of different research
topics. Participating projects so far are BACTOCOM, ECCell, MATCH-IT
and NEUNEU.

* Tentative Courses (Confirmed Speakers)

Molecular Computing: Physico-Chemical Modeling
Harold Fellermann, University of Southern Denmark
http://flint.sdu.dk/index.php?page=harold-fellermann

N.N.
Tetsuya Yomo, Osaka University
http://www-symbio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/index.html

Executable Biology
Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge & University of Cambridge
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/jfisher/

Bottom-up Assembly of Protocells: BioChem IT with Minimal Life-Like Systems
Steen Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark & Santa Fe Institute
http://flint.sdu.dk/index.php?page=steen-rasmussen

Informed Matter: The Confluence of Information Processes and Material
Science
Klaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/kpz

Bionanotechnology Fabrication for BioChem IT Devices
Maurits de Planque, Southampton University
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/mdp

N.N.
Norman Packard, European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT)
http://www.ecltech.org/index.php/research/people/21-researchers/23-npackard.html

Genetic Logic in Bacterial Computing: Design, Modelling and Simulation
Angel Goni-Moreno, Manchester Metropolitan University
http://www.angelgm.com/

Liposome Technology for Minimal Cells, Synthetic Communication, Smart
Drug Delivery
Pasquale Stano, Roma Tre University
http://www.plluisi.org/stano.html

Experimental Design
Irene Poli, University of Venice
www.dst.unive.it/~irenpoli/

Chemical Computing
Peter Dittrich, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
http://users.minet.uni-jena.de/~dittrich/



* Important Dates

Application deadline: 31 July 2012
Notification: 06 August 2012
Confirmation (and payment, if necessary): 13 August 2012


* Location and travel

The school will be held in San Candido (Innichen), Alta Pusteria, Italy.
 WWW: www.altapusteria.info  Hotel: www.orsohotel.it

Getting there:
Via Train, from Verona and from Austria.
Bolzano (100 km), Treviso (170 km), Venice (180 km) and Innsbruck (130
km) are the nearest airports.
Detailed travel instructions will be provided later.
	

* Application and financial support

The summer school is open to students and scientists in all
countries. Students are expected to attend for the full duration of
the program. There are approx. 20 to 30 scholarships available that
can cover the full tuition including accommodations and half
board. Scholarships will be available based on an individual's need
and merit through the general application procedure. Scholarships are
preferably provided to Phd students. Enrollment is limited.

The school is open for scientists at all levels. In order to apply,
please provide:

1. Application form including
    a) Short statement of research interests and why you wish to attend
the school.
    b) At least the address of two scholars who agreed to provide a
letter of recommendation
        (We will request letters only if required).
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. List of Publications (if applicable).

Submitting your application

The application form is available here (OpenOffice | Word | PDF).
www.cobra-project.eu/summerschool.html

Please submit your application as a single PDF document through EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=biochemitschool2012
(If you have no EasyChair account, you need to register first.)

Please fill out Author 1 with your basic information and mark
corresponding author. Use the fields Title, Abstract and Keywords for
the description of your current research project and interests. Note
that you can update your application until the submission deadline.


Information and Questions

If you have questions regarding the summer school or you would like to
receive the latest information about it, please send an email to:
biochemitschool2012 at easychair.org


Acknowledgement:

We acknowledge the financial support of the Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET) programme  within the ICT theme of the Seventh
Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission.




On behalf of COBRA,

Martyn Amos, Peter Dittrich, John McCaskill, Irene Poli and Steen Rasmussen.


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PD Dr. Peter Dittrich                                          |
Jena Centre for Bioinformatics (JCB) &                         |
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena                             |
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science                 |
Bio Systems Analysis Group                                     |
http://www.informatik.uni-jena.de/csb                          |
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 1-4, D-07743 Jena, Germany                    |
Phone : +49 3641 9 46460                                       |
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Email: dittrich at minet.uni-jena.de                              |
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