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BiRC Mols Meeting 2011

BiRC Mols Meeting, August 15-16, 2011

cows From Mols Hills Yu and pony A walk in the hills A break outside

Purpose

The purpose of the meeting is (i) to present and discuss on-going research projects at BiRC, (ii) to discuss how to make the "daily life" at BiRC even better, and last, but not least, (iii) to have a good time in the beautiful "Mols Mountains".

Registration

The meeting takes place at Mols Laboratoriet. Minibus transportation will be arranged to and from Mols Laboratoriet - BiRC will only refund transportation in your own car if the busses are full. BiRC also covers food and lodging, but if you want exotic drinks or a good red wine for the dinner Monday night, you should bring it yourself.

Anybody working at BiRC can participate. Please inform Ellen Noer, elno [at] birc.au.dk, before July 3rd, 2011, if you will attend the meeting.

Speakers 2011

Internal: Iwona Siuda, Vikas Gupta, Lars Nørvang Andersen, Sam Finch

External: Jacob Skou (MOMA), Jotun Hein (Oxford)

Programme for 2011

Monday, August 15th

~9.30: Departure from BiRC

10.30 - 11.00: Getting rooms and keys at Mols Laboratoriet

11.00 - 11.40: Jacob Skou Pedersen (MOMA, Skejby Hospital):Bioinformatics at MOMA.

11.40 - 12.00: Iwona Siuda (BiRC):Surfactant Protein B (SP-B) and Saposin Like Proteins (SPL).

12.00 - 13.30: Lunch

13.30 - 14.30: Jotun Hein (Statistics, Oxford): Report from the Oxford Summer School in Computational Biology.

14.30 - 14.45: Short coffee break

14.45 - 15.00: Christian Storm: Intro to Small bioinformatics projects - brainstorming event.

15.00 - 16.00: Small bioinformatics projects - brainstorming event

16.00 - 19.00: Excursion - sports tournament

19.00 - ??.??: Dinner and applied research

Tuesday, August 16th

Breakfast

10.00 - 10.25: Vikas Gupta (BiRC):Large-scale small RNA sequencing reveals parallel events in symbiosis signalling pipeline.

10.25 - 10.50: Lars Nørvang Andersen (BiRC): Methods for Inference of Population Histories In The IM-model.

10.50 - 11.15: Sam Finch (BiRC): Population growth and genealogy conditioned on a rare event -- A non-rigorous introduction to the Ray-Knight Theorems.

11.15 - 11.45: Evaluation

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch

Cleanup and departure

Organizers

Palle, Ellen and Kasper