January 2010

February 2010
22-26th February 2010 Toxicogenomics http://www.toxcourses.nl/documenten/Toxicogenomics.htm Maastricht, The  Netherlands

March 2010
10-12th March 2010 Metabolomics & More: The impact of metabolomics on the life sciences in Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany - if you would like to participate as an exhibitor or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Christine Röger (christine.roeger@wzw.tum.de, tel. +49 8161 71 2832  +49 8161 71 2832)

13th March 2010 6th Annual Conference of the European Nutraceuticals Association: Nutraceuticals and Obesity in Vienna, AT

21st-24th March 2010 Food Colloids 2010: On the Road from Interfaces to Consumers in Granada, Spain

April 2010
7-10th April 2010 23rd Meeting of the European Intestinal Transport Group, Salerno, Italy

May 2010
18th21st May Human Genome Meeting 2010: Next Generation Genomics and Medicine in Montpellier (FR)
31st May-4th June 9th International Symposium on Selenium in Biology and Medicine (Selenium 2010) Kyoto, Japan - deadline for abstract submmision is 28th February 2010 - selenium2010@mbc.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp


June 2010
2nd-8th June 2010 Genome Canada 2010 Applied Computational Genomics Course (ACGC) in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada), lead by Dr Brian Fristensky (Eastern location and dates to be announced).

For more information email (with "ACGC" in subject line) training@gcbioinformatics.ca or go to www.gcbioinformatics.ca/training for a poster or registration form.

Empowering researchers with the tools and strategies of bioinformatics! This course will be of interest to industry specialists, researchers, professors, students, research assistants, and post docs alike. Since 2003, the ACGC courses have helped laboratory biologists become power users of the latest software tools. Through mastery of fundamental bioinformatics skills, this week-long course enables working biologists to take charge of their data and their projects. The ACGC course utilizes a wide array of popular software (see below*), within the context of a portable and comprehensive bioinformatics system. After the course, attendees will have freely downloadable access to all the Bioinformatics Platform tools and databases used in this course. All software is also freely downloadable.

30th June 2010 Nutraceuticals 2010 Science, testing and regulation at the Metropole, Brussels (BE)

30th June 2010 2nd Nutritional Genomics Symposium: A Healthy Start to Life at the Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia


August 2010
22nd-26th August 2010 IUFoST 15th World Congress of Food Science and Technology in Cape Town, South Africa


November 2010
9-12th November International Scientific Conference on Gastro-intestinal Microbial Ecology 2010 – GME2010 in Kosice, Slovakia









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* Genome Canada 2010 Applied Computational Genomics Course
1. BIRCH (Biological Research Computer Heirarchy) (http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~psgendb):
• Provides a complete bioinformatics suite for analysis of sequences, molecular markers, phylogenetic trees, mircoarrays, and data mining and management.
• Automates use of a wide range of programs (for example, BLAST, FASTA, clustalw, Phylip and many others) through a highly accessible graphic interface.
• Fosters a unique environment for experimentation with data.

2. The Bluejay genome browser (http://bluejay.ucalgary.ca/)
• Creates a means for visualization of the wealth of information hidden within the complexity of the genomes.
• Permits comparisons of the organization of two or more chromosomes
• Allows for visualization of hot spots of gene expression
• Facilitates the annotation of new genomes

3. Genome Canada Bioinformatics Help Desk (http://gchelpdesk.ualberta.ca/)
• Beginner-level introduction to Perl scripting
• Gives consultation on bioinformatics problems on a fee-for-service basis
• Offers a repository of software
• Provides web tools, including BASys (Bacterial Annotation System), PlasMapper, BacMap CGView and others

4. BioMoby (http://www.biomoby.org/)
• Automatically discovers web services worldwide that work with almost any kind of biological data
• Facilitates the learning of Perl Scripts for leveraging web services for maximizing research outcomes
• Creates high-throughput data pipelines through implementation of the Taverna workbench