From scott at scottcain.net Tue Feb 5 09:47:52 2013 From: scott at scottcain.net (Scott Cain) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:47:52 -0500 Subject: [Open-bio-l] Have your say in the 2013 GMOD community survey! Message-ID: Give us your thoughts on the GMOD project and win a personal DNA test from 23andMe! The GMOD project provides tools like GBrowse, Galaxy, MAKER, JBrowse, Tripal, Apollo, Chado, and many more to a huge community of users and developers around the world. To make sure that GMOD is giving you the support you need, we want to know how you use GMOD, which components you find valuable, your opinion on support, training, and GMOD's strengths and weaknesses. Your feedback is vital in helping GMOD to serve its user community more effectively and to suggest future directions for the project. Do the survey: http://gmod.org/survey.html The survey should take between 10 and 15 minutes (including thinking time), and participants can enter a draw to win "A Journey Through Your DNA", the personal DNA test from 23andMe (the winner can pick a $50 Amazon gift voucher if they prefer). The survey will be open until March 1st. Results will be collated and discussed at the April 2013 GMOD Meeting in Cambridge, UK, and posted on the GMOD wiki at http://gmod.org. Please spread the word to other friends and colleagues who use GMOD: the more voices we hear, the better the picture we get of the needs of our users, and the better we can help you! Do the survey: http://gmod.org/survey.html If you have any questions or problems with the survey, please email me -- I will be happy to help out! Thanks, Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Cain, Ph. D. scott at scottcain dot net GMOD Coordinator (http://gmod.org/) 216-392-3087 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research From magali.michaut at iscb.org Tue Feb 26 16:17:19 2013 From: magali.michaut at iscb.org (Magali Michaut) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:17:19 +0100 Subject: [Open-bio-l] Junior PI meeting: a satellite of ISMB-ECCB 2013 Message-ID: <605A868E-B04A-4C5D-8B91-06C11B2420A9@iscb.org> Transitioning from Post-doc to (junior) PI is a major step in the scientific career ladder bringing new challenges to the scientist. Key among these challenges is moving from a single project-based responsibility to being responsible for the projects of students, technicians, and postdocs. On top of this, the researcher is expected to be a successful grant writer, a human resources manager, an engaging speaker, etc. In this meeting we aim to bring together scientists who have recently started or wish to start their own research group. This meeting will serve as a platform for building a community of junior PIs within the broader field of Computational Biology. To participate you have to submit a short summary of your scientific research interests and future plans which will be distributed before the event to all participants to facilitate the interactions. They will also be peer-reviewed as part of the participant selection process. One of the most important goals of this meeting is to stimulate peer-to-peer interactions, which requires time and effort. We will thus require all participants to commit to the entire program duration. The total number of delegates will be capped at 50, so don't wait to submit your abstract! ** Submission deadline: April 19 ** https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?jpi2013 Date of the meeting: 20 July 2013 http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2013-program/ismbeccb2013-jpi/about-jpi Organizers: Jeroen de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Venkata P. Satagopam, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Manuel Corpas, The Genome Analysis Centre, UK Magali Michaut, Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands Yana Bromberg, Rutgers University, USA Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA Geoff Macintyre, University of Melbourne, Australia From pjotr.public41 at thebird.nl Thu Feb 28 17:13:54 2013 From: pjotr.public41 at thebird.nl (Pjotr Prins) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:13:54 +0100 Subject: [Open-bio-l] [pjotr2010@thebird.nl: Re: [GSoC] [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013] Message-ID: <20130228221354.GB28817@thebird.nl> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 02:14:39PM -0500, Robert Buels wrote: > Hurray! > > Would someone else be interested in being the org admin for OBF this > year? Preferably someone who's been an OBF mentor in one of the > previous years? I've got a lot of things on my plate. > > If someone else will be the primary, I can certainly volunteer as a backup. > > Rob Because I think GSoC so important for bioinformatics I volunteer to take on being the org admin for OBF this year. Chris Fields and Rob Buels have promised to act as support, backup and conscience. Note that I view this role as being purely organisational and administrative. The difficult decisions will be made by OBF board members. Pj. From scott at scottcain.net Tue Feb 5 14:47:52 2013 From: scott at scottcain.net (Scott Cain) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:47:52 -0500 Subject: [Open-bio-l] Have your say in the 2013 GMOD community survey! Message-ID: Give us your thoughts on the GMOD project and win a personal DNA test from 23andMe! The GMOD project provides tools like GBrowse, Galaxy, MAKER, JBrowse, Tripal, Apollo, Chado, and many more to a huge community of users and developers around the world. To make sure that GMOD is giving you the support you need, we want to know how you use GMOD, which components you find valuable, your opinion on support, training, and GMOD's strengths and weaknesses. Your feedback is vital in helping GMOD to serve its user community more effectively and to suggest future directions for the project. Do the survey: http://gmod.org/survey.html The survey should take between 10 and 15 minutes (including thinking time), and participants can enter a draw to win "A Journey Through Your DNA", the personal DNA test from 23andMe (the winner can pick a $50 Amazon gift voucher if they prefer). The survey will be open until March 1st. Results will be collated and discussed at the April 2013 GMOD Meeting in Cambridge, UK, and posted on the GMOD wiki at http://gmod.org. Please spread the word to other friends and colleagues who use GMOD: the more voices we hear, the better the picture we get of the needs of our users, and the better we can help you! Do the survey: http://gmod.org/survey.html If you have any questions or problems with the survey, please email me -- I will be happy to help out! Thanks, Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Cain, Ph. D. scott at scottcain dot net GMOD Coordinator (http://gmod.org/) 216-392-3087 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research From magali.michaut at iscb.org Tue Feb 26 21:17:19 2013 From: magali.michaut at iscb.org (Magali Michaut) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:17:19 +0100 Subject: [Open-bio-l] Junior PI meeting: a satellite of ISMB-ECCB 2013 Message-ID: <605A868E-B04A-4C5D-8B91-06C11B2420A9@iscb.org> Transitioning from Post-doc to (junior) PI is a major step in the scientific career ladder bringing new challenges to the scientist. Key among these challenges is moving from a single project-based responsibility to being responsible for the projects of students, technicians, and postdocs. On top of this, the researcher is expected to be a successful grant writer, a human resources manager, an engaging speaker, etc. In this meeting we aim to bring together scientists who have recently started or wish to start their own research group. This meeting will serve as a platform for building a community of junior PIs within the broader field of Computational Biology. To participate you have to submit a short summary of your scientific research interests and future plans which will be distributed before the event to all participants to facilitate the interactions. They will also be peer-reviewed as part of the participant selection process. One of the most important goals of this meeting is to stimulate peer-to-peer interactions, which requires time and effort. We will thus require all participants to commit to the entire program duration. The total number of delegates will be capped at 50, so don't wait to submit your abstract! ** Submission deadline: April 19 ** https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?jpi2013 Date of the meeting: 20 July 2013 http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2013-program/ismbeccb2013-jpi/about-jpi Organizers: Jeroen de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Venkata P. Satagopam, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Manuel Corpas, The Genome Analysis Centre, UK Magali Michaut, Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands Yana Bromberg, Rutgers University, USA Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA Geoff Macintyre, University of Melbourne, Australia From pjotr.public41 at thebird.nl Thu Feb 28 22:13:54 2013 From: pjotr.public41 at thebird.nl (Pjotr Prins) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:13:54 +0100 Subject: [Open-bio-l] [pjotr2010@thebird.nl: Re: [GSoC] [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013] Message-ID: <20130228221354.GB28817@thebird.nl> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 02:14:39PM -0500, Robert Buels wrote: > Hurray! > > Would someone else be interested in being the org admin for OBF this > year? Preferably someone who's been an OBF mentor in one of the > previous years? I've got a lot of things on my plate. > > If someone else will be the primary, I can certainly volunteer as a backup. > > Rob Because I think GSoC so important for bioinformatics I volunteer to take on being the org admin for OBF this year. Chris Fields and Rob Buels have promised to act as support, backup and conscience. Note that I view this role as being purely organisational and administrative. The difficult decisions will be made by OBF board members. Pj.