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Acknowledgements. Advanced Course on Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis June 30 - July 12, 2008 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil Organizers/Contact:. • Alberto M.R. Davila , Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio, Brazil;
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Advanced Course on Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis June 30 - July 12, 2008 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil Organizers/Contact: • Alberto M.R. Davila, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio, Brazil; • Edmundo Grisard, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil; • Hugo Naya, Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay; • Fredj Tekaia, Institut Pasteur Paris, France. Course web page:http://www.pasteur.fr/~tekaia/ACBCGA.html
Financial support CNPq/QUADTRYP/FINEP
We would like to thank the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianopolis for hosting this course and particularly: Dr. Maria Lucia de Barros Camargo - UFSC Vice-Chancellor of Post-Graduation.
We are grateful to all the colleagues and administrative staff who devoted much of their time to efficiently help setting this course. We acknowledge the following colleagues:
• From the Institut Pasteur Paris (http://www.pasteur.fr) -Direction des affaires internationales Yves Charpak, Roberto Bruzzone, Eliane Cöeffier; -Service Missions Michèle Leclerc, Murielle Dupuis; -Gestion du Budget Marie-Pierre Gratius; -Secretariat Martine Rambaud.
• From EMBO (http://www.embo.org/projects/world/) (Courses & Workshops/World Activities) Maria Barbosa, Programme Manager; Anne Seller, Administrator; Lynne Turnbull, on line-Helpdesk Administrator.
We are grateful to all the colleagues who accepted our invitations for devoting much of their time and efforts to participate in this course:
• Sonia Abdelhak (Institut Pasteur Tunis; Tunisia); • Mario Dantas (UFSC, Florianopolis; Brazil); • Alberto Davila (FIOCRUZ, Rio; Brazil); • Antonio Basiliode Miranda (FIOCRUZ, Rio; Brazil); • Bas Dutilh (CMBI, Nijmegen; Holland); •André Goffeau (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve; Belgium); •Gustavo Goldman (Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brazil); •Leo Goostadt (University of Oxford; UK); • Edmundo Grisard(UFSC, Florianopolis; Brazil);
• Grégory Nuel (University Paris-Descartes; France); • Christian Probst(ICC/FIOCRUZ, Curitiba; Brazil); • Joao Setubal (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; USA); • Fredj Tekaia(Institut Pasteur Paris; France); • Julie Thompson (IGBMC, Strasbourg; France);
DVD: Bibliography Thanks to: Hugo Naya and Natalia Rego (Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay) The DVD includes: • Fundamental recent references in Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis. • Subdivided into items: Methods; Genomes; Comparative Genomics; Duplication; Evolution; Orthologs; Phylogeny; Selection; Tree of Life; …; Courses and conference presentations.
We would like to acknowledge the monitors: • Glauber Wagner, MSc - UFSC; • Guilherme Arthur Geronimo, UFSC; • Juliano de Carvalho Cury, UFSC; for their efficient help during the course.
Milestones of the course organization • Submission Institut Pasteur Paris : July 10, 2007; • Submission EMBO : July 10, 2007; • CNPq application: July, 2007; • Course Announcement : January, 2007; • Application deadline: March 31, 2008; • Candidate evaluation and selection (20) : April 10, 2008; • Course starting : June, 30, 2008; •Course evaluation (mandatory) : July 12, 2008; • Course and financial reports :August 30, 2008.
Applicants (89)/Countries (19)/Gender -> 150 e-mails Total applications: Selected (20)/Countries (7): 13 F/7 M 45 F/44M 3 + 2 (30.2; 5.3;23; 45) (31.6; 7.3; 22; 49) (30.2; 3.8; 24; 39) (34.4; 6.8; 23; 45) Female Male Age: 5 64: ~ Biol 25: ~ Bioinf 14: ~ Biol 06: ~ Bioinf 3 + 2 1 2 1 1 10 supplementary students from FIOCRUZ: 6F / 4M have regularly attended the course. Travel grants: 2 students