Accelerating Biology 2013:The Next Wave
20-22 February, 2013
Background New advances in biology are being made at a rapidly increasing pace, largely due to new technologies and a large amount of automation. The advent of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology has brought in a new dimension to understand the molecular basis of a living organism. The Next Generation Sequencing technology enables sequencing of hundreds of genomes at an extremely rapid rate and at a significantly lower cost. The availability of hundreds of genomes in a short time is expected to revolutionize area of life sciences. A number of new methods like de-novo sequencing, resequencing, transcriptomics etc. are emerging in the Next Generation Sequencing area. These technologies have a tremendous applications is various areas of Human Health, Agriculture, Livestock and Environment.
The pace of sequencing is leading to a data overload and therefore the ability to analyze is much beyond the existing computing capabilities. This tsunami of data has led to a sea change in the storage and computing requirements. In order to gear up to tackle these challenges most biologists are adopting the use of cyberinfrastructure. Cyberinfrastructure is a combination of data resources, high-speed networks and high performance computing resources that bring people, information and computational resources together to perform science in this information driven world.
The last few decades have witnessed the evolution of biology from what used to be a purely experimental field, to a high end computational domain, where unrelenting computational power is required to decipher pieces of data generated through high throughput techniques into blocks of information that will help to answer many mysteries of life. To be able to generate knowledge from the oceans of genomic data, enabling technologies like High Performance Computing, Grid Computing and Cloud Computing are the latest weapons in the hands of the modern biologist.
This symposium intends to bring together researchers in various domains of human health, agriculture, livestock and environment who are using advanced computational biology tools to solve scientific problems in their respective domains.
Accelerating Biology 2013 : The Next Wave is a three day symposium on current trends in Bioinformatics. The sessions will comprise of invited talks from eminent academicians from esteemed institutes. The talks will address the challenges in the areas of Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules, Computational Genomics: Application in Human Health, Computational Genomics : Application in Plants / Animals / Microbes, Algorithms / System Biology and BRAF users : Case Studies. The symposium is targeted at students and researchers from academic institutes, universities and Bioinformatics industries.
List of Speakers
Dr.Venugopal Nair, Institute of Animal Health, UK
Dr.Kalyan Gayen, National Institute of Technology Agartala
Dr.Leelavati Narlikar, National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune
Dr.Pramod Wangikar, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Dr.Saumyadipta Pyne, CRRao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Hyderabad
Dr.Vinod Scaria, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi
Dr.Aditya Mittal, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Prof.R.Sankara Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Prof.Dhananjay Bhattacharya, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Dr.Pradeep Kumar P I, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
Dr.Mukund Thattai, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
Dr.Sharmila Bapat, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune
Dr.Mukesh Doble, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Dr.Chetan Gadgil, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
Dr.T.R.Sharma, National Research Centre for Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi
Dr.N.Yathindra, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore
Dr.Jan Kim, Institute of Animal Health, UK
Dr.H.A.Nagarajaram, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting & Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad
Dr.Alpan Raval, D.E.Shaw Research, Hyderabad
Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules
Computational Genomics : Applications in Human Health
Computational Genomics : Applications in Plants / Animals / Microbes
Algorithms & Systems Biology
BRAF users : Case Studies
Poster Submission and Young Speaker program
All registered participants are encouraged to make a poster presentation of their recent research activities and submit an abstract, not exceeding 250 words. The confirmation of poster selection will be notified by 20th January 2013.
Poster size should be 2ft X 3ft. Material to be required for mounting the poster will be provided by organizers.
The posters would be evaluated and the best few will be allowed for oral presentation in the “Young Speaker Program”.
The prizes will be given to the best 3 posters.
Category
Students
Academic Institutes/
Government Organizations
Industry
Fees
Registration fee only in form of DD.
Registration does not include accommodation charges.
The registration fee includes symposium kit, breakfast, tea/coffee during breaks, lunches and dinners during symposium days.
Limited Accommodation will be available on a first-come-first-serve basis.
The registration fees does not include accomodation charges. The participants have to pay directly to the guest house.
Registration details and Payment method
Kindly print the form after the completion of the application process and send it with the demand draft. Kindly make your demand draft in favour of “Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)” payable at Pune. Mail the registration form with the requisite fee to the following address:
Convenor: Dr. Rajendra Joshi
Kind Attn.: Ms. Sayali Gongle
Bioinformatics Group,
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),
Pune University Campus, Ganeshkhind,
Pune – 411 007
Events
Dates
Registration Start
15th November 2012
Registration End
31th January 2013
DD-receipt Deadline
31th January 2013
Abstract Deadline
31th January 2013
Yashawantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA)
Rajbhavan Complex,
Baner Road,
Pune – 411 007
Tel. : +91-20-25608000
Fax : +91-20-2560810
Ms.Sayali Gongle
Bioinformatics Group,
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),
Pune University Campus, Ganesh Khind,
Pune - 411 007, India.
Telephone/Fax: +91-20-25694084/25704196
Email: bio@cdac.in
Web: http://bioinfo-portal.cdac.in
Note: Registrations once confirmed are non-transferable & non-refundable (including accommodation charges)
More Info : http://cdac.in/index.aspx?id=ev_bio_symposium_2013
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