Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis course (16-29 August, 2009
for PhD and post-doctoral students, and junior scientitsts

Aim of the course:
The main objectives of the course are to familiarize young scientists (Biologists/Computer Scientists/Mathematicians) with bioinformatics and genome data analysis skills and to encourage multi-disciplinarity by introducing:

The course is aimed for motivated Ph.D and Post-doctoral students, as well as young assistant professors and junior scientists in Public Institutions particularly from Asia, Africa and South Ameria, with background in Mathematics, Statistics, Biology or Computing, who are involved in Bioinformatics and Genomes studies.

A three-day symposium on "What did we learn from genome studies and perspectives" will conclude the course (August 27-29). The symposium is open to the public.

Organisers:
Roberto Bruzzone, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre - Hong Kong.
Si Lok, Genome Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong.
Tin Wee Tan, National University of Singapore - Singapore.
Ueng-Cheng Yang, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei - Taiwan.
Fredj Tekaia, Institut Pasteur Paris - France.

Speakers:
Sonia Abdelhak (Institut Pasteur Tunis - Tunisia)
Guillaume Bourque (Genome Institut of Singapore - Singapore)
Inna Dubchak (Genomics Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA)
Bernard Dujon (Institut Pasteur, France)
Anne Estreicher (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva - Switzerland)
Anne Friedrich (IGBMC Strasbourg - France)
Toni Gabaldón (CRG-Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona - Spain)
André Goffeau (Universite Catholique Louvain, Belgium)
Leo Goodstadt (University of Oxford - UK)
Simonetta Gribaldo (Institut Pasteur, France)
Quang Tru Huynh (Institut Pasteur, France)
Gregory Nuel (Universite Paris-Descartes, Paris - France)
John Quackenbush (Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA)
Miria Ricchetti (Institut Pasteur, France)
Hugues Roest Crollius (Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris, France)
Pak Sham (HKU - Hong Kong)
Gavin Smith (HKU - Hong Kong)
Tin Wee Tan (National University of Singapore - Singapore)
Fredj Tekaia (Institut Pasteur, France)
Ueng-Cheng Yang (National Yang Ming University, Taipei - Taiwan)