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University of Idaho Is a Natural Selection for Evolution 2009 (Newswise)
The University of Idaho will host 2009 Evolution, a conference featuring more than 600 presentations and 200 posters on current and previously unreleased research, eight sponsored symposia synthesizing entire research fields, three speeches from the presidents of the sponsoring societies and one keynote speaker, Eugenie Scott.
(May 28, 2009)
Mozah visits historic castle in Dresden (Gulf Times)
HH Sheikha Mozah Nasser al-Misnad, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, currently on a trip to Germany , yesterday visited the historic Dresden Castle .
(May 28, 2009)
Caprion Proteomics Inc. and Applied Bioystems Work Together to Accelerate Protein Biomarker Verification and Validation (redOrbit)
Combination of industry-leading services with unique QTRAP(R) technology MONTREAL, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Caprion Proteomics Inc.
(May 28, 2009)
Rooted in Research, UH Biotech Program Grows by Leaps and Bounds (Newswise)
For those who have any doubt that a little bit of money can go a long way, University of Houston leaders point to the campus' Center for Life Sciences Technology. In a mere three years, the center has grown from a good idea for Texas to what the National Science Foundation reviewers have called a model for the nation.
(May 29, 2009)
Protea Announces Drug Development Partnership With Mayoly Spindler, a European Pharmaceutical Company (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va., May 29, 2009 -- Protea Biosciences, Inc., a leader in the development of new protein technology, announced today that it has entered into a drug development partnership with LABORATOIRES MAYOLY SPINDLER , a European pharmaceutical company based in France, that specializes in Gastroenterology therapeutics.
(May 29, 2009)
Richard Kniss, VW Brinkerhoff III, Andrew Carr, John Padfield, Craig Taylor, Jennifer Collins, Tim Keith, , Randall ... (GenomeWeb News)
Richard Kniss will be appointed non-executive chairman of Arcturus , the company said this week. He has been a board member since 2002. Kniss was senior vice president and general manager of the life science and chemical group of Agilent Technologies prior to his retirement in 2001.
(May 29, 2009)
Try, Try, Try Again (GenomeWeb News)
Keith Robison has been MIA on his blog lately because he's been banging his head against a programming problem at work. Programming in bioinformatics, he says, is usually straightforward but not in this case — his first solution made his memory card burst.
(May 29, 2009)
Big Pharma's Got One Toe In, At Least (GenomeWeb News)
At VentureBeat , David Hamilton points to news reported in the New York Times of the establishment of the International Serious Adverse Events Consortium.
(May 29, 2009)
Two Industry Leaders Added To Pfizer Animal Genetics Team (CattleNetwork.com)
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (May 28, 2009) — Pfizer Animal Genetics has made two significant additions to its research and development and technical service teams with the hiring of Sue DeNise, Ph.D. and Kent Andersen, Ph.D. The addition of these two highly respected experts exemplifies an ongoing effort by Pfizer Animal Genetics to build a world-renowned staff of genomics experts to advance DNA-marker ...
(May 29, 2009)
What’s on Life Sciences TV? (Bio-IT World)
Bio-IT World | The winner of the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award, Australian Philip Bourne, shares much in common with the previous winners of the Bioinformatics Organization’s annual prize. He’s a savvy computer scientist, journal editor, author, open access advocate and, of course, widely respected among his peers. But he may be the first to add TV mogul to his list of accomplishments. No
(May 29, 2009)
Strategic Diagnostics Gains ISO Certification (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Strategic Diagnostics has received ISO 9001:2000 accreditation for all of its facilities from the American Systems Registrar, an accredited international registrar for the International Standards Organization, the company said today.
(May 29, 2009)
Evidently Women and Men Can Write Equally Atrocious Papers (GenomeWeb News)
The blogger at Medical Writing, Editing & Grantsmanship links to an item from Nature about whether women are less successful than men in the peer review process.
(May 29, 2009)
Jobs! Jobs for Everyone! (GenomeWeb News)
Wolfgang Huber applies statistical computing to analyze microarray, sequencing, and high-throughput automated microscopy data. One of his immediate goals it to use both array and sequencing data along with imaging to better understand the connections between genotype and phenotype.
(May 29, 2009)
Caprion Proteomics Using Applied Biosystems' QTRAP for Assay Development (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Caprion Proteomics said today that it is working with Applied Biosystems to verify and validate protein biomarker candidates for use in clinical settings.
(May 29, 2009)
The Promise of Semantic Web Technology (GenomeWeb News)
You're investigating a protein and want to know what other proteins occur in the same pathway — or maybe what other experiments have been done with that pathway or protein, and what's been published.
(May 29, 2009)
Q&A: Corrado Priami Explains Why Computer Science is Systems Biology's Best Foundation (GenomeWeb News)
In the May issue of the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery , Corrado Priami, a professor of computer scientist at Italy's University of Trento, lays out the opportunities for computer science in the emerging field of systems biology.
(May 29, 2009)
HHMI's Plan to Enforce HMMer Trademark Sparks Debate in Bioinformatics Community (GenomeWeb News)
A recent decision by the copyright holder of the widely used HMMER software to enforce its trademark has prompted some discussion in the bioinformatics community about forking the software and its commercial use.
(May 29, 2009)
Expanded version of Phytozome.net released (PhysOrg)
An enhanced version of Phytozome.net, a web portal for comparative plant genomics geared to advance biofuel, food, feed, and fiber research, has been released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI).
(May 29, 2009)
People In The News (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Speculation that Former National Human Genome Research Institute Director Francis Collins is a frontrunner to become the next leader of the National Institutes of Health was spurred this week after Bloomberg News reported that an anonymous source said Collins is in the late stages of a screening process for the post.
(May 29, 2009)
Philips Inks Microarray Collaboration with Moxtek (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Philips Research will collaborate with the nano-photonics company Moxtek to develop of a wire grid microarray (WGM) chip that can be used for biomolecular detection in life sciences research, Moxtek said Thursday.
(May 29, 2009)
New Zealand Grants $17M for Genomics Facility (GenomeWeb News)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A New Zealand consortium led by the University of Otago will receive NZ$26.5 million (US$16.5 million) from the government to develop a genomics research facility.
(May 29, 2009)
A combination of germplasm, genetics, genomics, and stress physiology identify tomatoes with tolerance to drought and ... (SeedQuest)
Global food security depends on genetic diversity. To develop vegetable crops capable of thriving in the extremes of a changing climate, plant breeders must evaluate hundreds of crop relatives in search of genes linked to important agronomic traits such as drought tolerance and disease resistance.
(May 29, 2009)
New B.C. university program woos India’s brightest (Vancouver Sun)
Some of the sharpest young minds from India have taken up residence at B.C. universities as part of an unusual program intended to woo international students and boost Canada’s reputation as an education destination.
(May 29, 2009)
Affymetrix Chief Medical Officer to speak at AAAS on Personalized Medicine (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Affymetrix, Inc., today announced that its Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Rick Hockett, will address the topic of 'Personalized Medicine: Planning for the Future' at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Food and Drug Law Institute on June 1 in Washington, DC.
(May 29, 2009)
Getting More From Whole-transcript Microarrays (Science Daily)
Women’s reproductive and lifestyle characteristics can be linked to different invasive breast cancer subtypes. Data on 2544 breast cancer cases suggests that traditional risk factors for development of the condition are associated with different kinds of tumor.
(May 30, 2009)
ZuGEM inks technology pact with Rubicon Genomics (PharmaBiz)
ZyGEM Corp Ltd has entered into an agreement with Rubicon Genomics, Inc to incorporate ZyGEM's advanced enzymatic nucleic acid extraction technology into Rubicon's pre-analytical platform products designed to significantly improve the performance of DNA and RNA analytical instruments.
(May 30, 2009)
Avasthagen ties up with Harvard Medical School on Genomics studies (PharmaBiz)
Avesthagen Limited and the Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) have entered into a long-term collaboration in the field of Genomics. The agreement includes data analysis, population structure and various other studies.
(May 30, 2009)
Development Of Rapid Approach To Identify Influenza A Virus Mutations And Drug Resistance (Medical News Today)
Genome Institute of Singapore scientists, led by Christopher Wong, Ph.D., have developed a novel approach to uncover the complete sequence of any influenza A virus, including H1NI, with just a quick nasal swab or nasal pharyngeal wash from patients.
(May 30, 2009)
West County school notes (El Cerrito Journal)
WCCUSD reclassification ceremony scheduled: The West Contra Costa 10th annual Reclassification Ceremony, in which English-language learners are honored for mastering English, is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Richmond Memorial Auditorium, 403 Civic Center Plaza.
(May 30, 2009)
West County school notes (Contra Costa Times)
PinoleSave the music concert scheduled: Stewart K-8 elementary and several other Pinole schools are hosting a benefit concert from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at Ellerhorst Elementary School, 3501 Pinole Valley Road.
(May 30, 2009)
UA medical school's growth may stall (The Arizona Republic)
University of Arizona officials say the school's growth is in jeopardy because of the state's budget troubles and lawmakers' reluctance to release $400 million in state Lottery funds to expand the campus.
(May 31, 2009)
Valedicatorians: Head of the Class 2009 (The Mail Tribune)
Parents: Gaia Layser and Darren Borgias. GPA: 4.0.
(May 31, 2009)
Princeton’s Cristea Using Mass Spec to Study How Viruses Manipulate Hosts (GenomeWeb News)
Ileana Cristea , an assistant professor in molecular biology at Princeton University, has been using mass spectrometry to study chromatin and its modulation by viruses.
(May 31, 2009)
This Week in Science (GenomeWeb News)
Proteomics is moving into the big leagues, say two Science news articles. Some researchers now think it's time to begin a human proteome project . Earlier efforts didn't take off due to immature technology and a lack of standards, but now with standards established and better techniques, some proteomics leaders say it is time.
(May 31, 2009)
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