CRG Symposium: 7th International Workshop on Genomic Epidemiology

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7th International Workshop on Genomic Epidemiology

16th CRG Symposium, 20th-22nd September, PRBB, Barcelona

The 16th CRG Symposium: Seventh International Workshop on Genomic Epidemiology will take place at the PRBB Auditorium from 20 to 22 September 2017 will gather speakers to discuss about the progress in sequencing and with other technologies for biomolecular analysis, and their applications in research and clinical settings.

Solutions will be presented for the accumulation, handling and interpretation of huge data sets, including the identification of rare and common genetic variants associated with disease, functional evaluation of genetic variation, understanding of gene networks and epigenomic phenomena in health and disease, pharmacogenomics, gene-gene and gene-environment interactions. Examples of the application of these technologies for epidemiological scale studies in different disease areas will be presented.

Participants in the meeting are welcomed to present their research results with a short abstract of 300 words. A limited number of slots will be available in the programme for selected participants for short talks.

Organisers:

Registration deadline: August 31

Follow updates from this CRG Symposium in its website.

Open position at aScidea (TecnioSpring+ program)

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OPEN POSITION AVAILABLE at aScidea: Bioinformatics R&D Scientist

aScidea Genomics & Bioinformatics CRO, a SINGEK hosting institution and Supervisor of the individual research project ESR15, offers a new position:

We are looking for a highly motivated and proactive person with a strong interest in learning and participating in an innovative and growing environment. This person will work as Bioinformatics R&D Scientist at our R&D Department and will develop its own research project in the framework of TecnioSpring+ program, and will be involved in current active projects in the company, such as SINGEK, aimed to develop single cell bioinformatics pipelines to advance the precision of the omics discoveries.

Tasks / responsibilities
– Develop Scientific Software and data analysis under the TecnioSpring+ program.

Requirements
– PhD in Computational Biology/Bioinformatics or similar.
– Prior experience of at least 2 years in Bioinformatics software and data analysis.
– Strong background in algorithms, statistics and data management and mining.
– Excellent programming skills. Experience in python.
– Familiar with Machine Learning techniques is a plus.
– Knowledge on SQL and noSQL databases.
– Knowledge on big data analytics.
– Fluent English (Catalan/Spanish is a plus).
– Working permit in the EU.

Offer
– Full time contract, starting at mid-January 2018.
– Flexible working
– Salary according to both candidate’s experience and company pay scales.
– An exciting and growing environment.

If you are interested in this position, please send a CV, a cover letter and 2-3 recommendation letters to: info@ascidea.com before August 15th.
Please write the tag [TECNIOSPRING] in the e-mail header.

SINGEK: New introductory VIDEO

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A new introductory video about our SINGEK Innovative Training Network is out:

We are really grateful to SINGEK fellows (including some Early Stage Researchers) who contributed to informally present our ambitions and drive!

Enjoy it!

EMBO Workshop on Comparative genomics of eukaryotic microbes

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Comparative genomics of eukaryotic microbes: Dissecting sources of evolutionary diversity

EMBO Workshop, 14th-19th October, Sant Feliu (Girona)

EMBO – excellence in life sciences organizes a workshop in St Feliu de Guíxols (Girona, Spain) from 14th to 19th October 2017, which will be focused on comparative genomics of eukaryotic microorganisms.

Unicellular eukaryotes comprise the overwhelming majority of eukaryotic cellular and genomic diversity, pervading all branches of the eukaryotic tree of life. Recent sequencing efforts have significantly increased the number of unicellular eukaryotes for which genomic/cellular/proteomic data are available. Metagenomics, transcriptomics,single-cell genomics, and other approaches are being applied to unravel the ecology, physiology, diversity and evolution of microbial eukaryotes and are shedding light on fundamental questions such as the origin of the eukaryotic cell, endosymbiosis, the origin of multicellularity and the evolution of major cellular systems in eukaryotes.

Although there are conferences devoted to genomics of prokaryotes and that of plants and animals, this EMBO Workshop will be the only forum bringing together this diverse community with a range of expertise and which concentrates on microbial eukaryotes.

 

There is a need, particularly in organisms without large communities, to have a forum where approaches, new methodologies and datasets can be shared to the advancement of this field. In particular, three of the SINGEK project supervisors will be involved in this  EMBO conference: Thomas Richards (as organizer, University of Exeter, supervisor of ESR11), Ramiro Logares (as speaker. CSIC Institut De Ciències Del Mar, supervisor of ESR2) and Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo (also as speaker, IBE: Institute of Evolutionary Biology CSIC – UPF, supervisor of ESR3).

 

You can follow updates from this EMBO Workshop in its Website or via Facebook.

Abstract Submission is open until 15th August!!