Announcements and Events

Last Two BIIG Meetings for This Academic Year!

The next BIIG meeting will be Monday, April 21st featuring guest speaker Dr. Xuan Zhang from NCBI at NIH presenting on "Biomedical Date Intergration". See abstract for more information on this topic.

Our last BIIG meeting of the academic year will be Friday, April 25th featuring guest speaker Dr. Katheleen Gardiner, Professor at University of Colorado at Denver and the Health Sciences Center. She will speak on "Identification of human chromosome 21 genes involved in learning and memory: bioinformatics challenges in Down Syndrome research". See abstract for more information on this topic.

Both meetings will be held from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.at PKI in room 279 with lunch at 11:30a and the presentation to begin by 11:45.

For more information and to RSVP, please contact Connie Jones by e-mail or at (402) 554-3889.

BIIG Meeting April 21, 2008 Flyer
BIIG Meeting April 25, 2008 Flyer

2008 NE-INBRE Scholars for Bioinformatics Announced

Congratulations to all our new NE-INBRE Scholars. Caleb Schmid, Julia Warnke, and Ximeng Zheng were chosen as the IS&T Scholars. They will be choosing their summer research campuses soon and will begin their work this summer. Watch for their areas of research on the NE-INBRE Scholars Program page of this website.

J. Craig Venter Institute Presented on TIGR CMR, Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Instructors from the J. Craig Venter Institute, JCVI, formerly TIGR, presented on the Comprehensive Microbial Resource. "Comprehensive Microbial Resource (CMR) is a free tool that allows researchers to access all of the publicly available bacterial genome sequences completed to date." The focus will be on the CMR with a basic overview of prokaryotic annotation methodology. For more information on CMR, please visit the JCVI website at www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/cmr.

There was a lecture in the morning with hands-on computer laboratory exercises in the afternoon.

NCBI Mini-Courses held Thursday and Friday, October 25^th and 26^th, 2007

An instructor from NCBI came once again to UNO on October 25^th and 26 ^th to conduct four mini-courses. The four mini-courses held were:

Identification of Disease Genes
Unmasking Genes in the Human Genome
Entrez Gene QuickStart
MapViewer QuickStart

Details of the content of each course may be found at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/minicourses/index.html.

This was the first time that NCBI had held these courses outside of the Bethesda, MD campus. There were be two courses held each day, one in the morning running from 9:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and one in the afternoon running from 1:00 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. All courses will be held at the Peter Kiewit Institute at 67^th and Pacific Streets and computer lab classroom, hands-on setting. These were hands-on, problem driven courses. As before, there was no fee for the courses. For more information about these courses that were held or about upcoming workshops at UNO for Bioinformatics, please contact Connie Jones by e-mail or at (402) 554-3889.

Upcoming Area Bioinformatics Seminars and Conferences

The Eppley Insitute for Research in Cancer at UMNC has announced its Fall schedule of speakers. Seminars are held each Thurday from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. in the Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater, room 3010, at UNMC. For more information, see the flyer.

Additionally, the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at UNMC has a list of its Fall speakers. These seminars are held every Monday at 4:00 p.m. in the DRC Amphitheater, room 1002, at UNMC. For more information, see the flyer and also check the website, www.unmc.edu/Biochemistry, for updates and additions to the speaker list.

Be sure to check the Bioninformatics bulletin board located outside of the IS&T Dean's office for additional seminar and conference notices.

New Bioinformatics Faculty Member

The UNO Bioinformatics program is pleased to welcome Dr. Dhundy (Kiran) Bastola as our newest faculty member. Dr. Bastola comes to us from the University of Nebraska Medical Center where he will continue to have connections as the Director of the Genetic Sequence Analysis Facility (GSAF) (URL: http://molbio.unmc.edu).

INBRE Annual Meeting in Grand Island

The INBRE Annual Meeting for 2007 was held in Grand Island on August 8^th and 9^th. All UNO NE-INBRE scholars presented on their summer research via a poster or oral presentation. Of special note was Stephanie Brady, one of our IS&T NE-INBRE Scholars, taking third place in oral presenatations. This was among NE-INBRE students from all participating institutes and programs. Congratulations Stephanie!