ICSB 2010 Workshop “IOMPA”

ICSB 2010 Workshop “Integration of OMICS Datasets into Metabolic Pathway Analysis”

IOMPA 2010, a workshop dedicated at the Integration of OMICS Datasets into Metabolic Pathway Analysis will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland on October 15, 2010 in the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The aim of this workshop is to discuss issues arising in the integration of experimental data into the analysis of metabolic networks. It is split into three parts each of which covers one of the central topics arising in this kind of analysis. The first session is dedicated towards genome-scale metabolic networks and will cover issues arising in the reconstruction of such networks. The aim of the second session is to discuss different types of structural properties of metabolic networks that can be used to characterize them. These structural properties reach from connected routes in a graph-based representation of metabolic network, over stoichiometrically balanced fluxes in the form of elementary flux modes or extreme pathways to reactions necessarily working together at steady state. Finally, the aim of the third session is to discuss how large-scale experimental data can be analyzed using these structural characteristics and, in the other direction, how experimental data can be used to identify those characteristics that matter for the cell.

Contact: christoph.kaleta [at] uni-jena.de

2nd Jena Life Science Forum

The Frege Centre for Structural Sciences plans the second Jena Life Science Forum

Das Frege Centre der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena plant in diesem Jahr das zweite Jena Life Science Forum. Dazu sind Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus Natur-, Kultur-, Formal- und Ingenieurwissenschaften für eine Klausurwoche vom 23. bis 27.08.2010 eingeladen, damit diese ihre eigenen Forschungsprojekte zum Thema “Die Molekularsprache des Lebens” vorstellen und ausgiebig mit renommierten Wissenschaftlern diskutieren können (siehe http://www.frege.uni-jena.de/Projekte/Jena_Life_Science_Forum.html).

Die Konferenzsprache wird Deutsch sein, da auch über philosophische Aspekte diskutiert werden soll.

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First Joint JSMC/JCB Workshop “Microbes, Models, and Methods”

9-10 March 2010, Jena

This joint event was organised by the “Jena Centre for Bioinformatics” (JCB) and the “Jena School for Microbial Communication” (JSMC), and included contributions of guest speakers from the Graduate Research School in Genomic Ecology (GENECO, University of Lund, Sweden) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands). The workshop took place in the Main Lecture Hall (“Aula”) of the University Main Building.

Download programme including poster list and abstracts (pdf)

11th International Conference on Membrane Computing

The CMC11 will take place in Jena from 24 to 27 August 2010

Having now for the first time the status of a conference, CMC11 aims to continue the fruitful tradition of 10 previous editions of the International Workshop on Membrane Computing (WMC). It is intended to bring together researchers working in membrane computing and related areas in a friendly atmosphere enhancing communication and cooperation. The CMC11 is hosted at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in collaboration with the Jena Centre for Bioinformatics under the auspices of the European Molecular Computing Consortium and the Molecular Computing Task Force of the Emergent Technologies Technical Committee at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Further information and registration details are available at the official homepage.

Contact: thomas.hinze [at] uni-jena.de

International Workshop 2010: “Systems Biology for Industry”

The International Workshop 2010: “Systems Biology for Industry: Dynamics and regulation of the metabolic balance in Escherichia coli” will be held on 7-8 October 2010 in Jena.

This Workshop will be the 8th in a series of annual International Workshops held in Jena and organised by the research group “Systems Biology/Bioinformatics” at the HKI. It is dedicated to the dynamic modelling of the overflow metabolism of Escherichia coli that limits both biomass yield and the quality of biotechnologically important products. The quantitative modelling of the regulation of metabolic fluxes around the pyruvate node, in particular the minimisation of by-product formation is a pre-requisite for optimising recombinant protein production by E. coli. The workshop is part of our FORSYS-partner project “Dynamics and regulation of the metabolic balance in Escherichia coli” and will bring together the partners from academia and partners from the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry.

Contact: reinhard.guthke [at] hki-jena.de