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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:

Course web page: http://www.pasteur.fr/~tekaia/ACBCGA.html

• 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.

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 MissionsMichèle Leclerc, Murielle Dupuis;

-Gestion du BudgetMarie-Pierre Gratius;

-SecretariatMartine 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:

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• Sonia Abdelhak (Institut Pasteur Tunis; Tunisia);

• Mario Dantas (UFSC, Florianopolis; Brazil);

• Alberto Davila (FIOCRUZ, Rio; Brazil);

• Antonio Basilio de 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

• 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.

Thanks to:

Hugo Naya and Natalia Rego

(Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay)

The DVD includes:

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.

• 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.

Milestones of the course organization

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SudanSweedenUruguay

Applicants (89)/Countries (19)/Gender

Total applications: Selected (20)/Countries (7):

13 F / 7 M45 F / 44M

64: ~ Biol

25: ~ Bioinf

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(31.6; 7.3; 22; 49)

(30.2; 3.8; 24; 39)

(34.4; 6.8; 23; 45)

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Male

Age:

-> 150 e-mails

Travel grants: 2 students10 supplementary students from FIOCRUZ:

6F / 4M have regularly attended the course.