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RIIP-Info : African
Bioinformatics Workshop, May 28-June 03
2007, Nairobi, Kenya
The first Workshop on the Bioinformatics of African Pathogens and Disease Vectors will be held at BecA/ILRI Campus in Nairobi, Kenya, from May 28th to June 3rd, 2007. The workshop web site is: http://www.lirmm.fr/france_afrique/Nairobi2007/ Oral and poster presentations will be sought in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology with relevance to African disease vectors and pathogens. Workshop topics include: * Functional, structural and comparative genomics of pathogens and their vectors * Genetic interactions between pathogens, vectors, and/or hosts * Evolution and co-evolution of vectors, pathogens and/or hosts * Molecular epidemiology * Immunomics and rational vaccine design * Database and knowledge base development Dates and submission details: March 30 2007 Abstract and registration closes April 15 2007 Notification of acceptance for oral presentations May 1st 2007 Release of draft program May 28 2007 Conference begins Invited speakers: * Mohamad Afshar (Institut Pasteur, FR), "In silico drug design" * Matthew Berriman (SANGER, UK), "Data mining parasite genomes" * Tulio De Oliveira (SANBI, South Africa), "Resources and databases for HIV" * Winston Hide (SANBI, South Africa), "Translation of Genomics in endemic countries" * Eric Maréchal (CNRS, FR), "In silico strategies for target discovery" * Enrique Morett (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), "Taenia genomics" * Allen Rodrigo (Univ. Auckland, NZ), "Evolution of HIV" * Michel Tibayrenc (IRD, FR), "Trypanosomia, host/parasite/vector coevolution" Committees: - Program Committee, co-chairs: Alia BenKahla (Tunisia), Winston Hide (South Africa); members: Ezekiel Adebiyi (Nigeria), Jaco Di Ridder (South Africa), Scott Hazelhurst (South Africa), Beatrice Kilel (Kenya), Daniel Masiga (Kenya), Nicky Mulder (South Africa), Trushar Shah (Kenya), Etienne de Villiers (Kenya). - International Scientific Committee, chair: Olivier Gascuel (CNRS, France); members: Daniel Masiga (ICIPE, Kenya), Allen Rodrigo (Univ. Auckland, NZ), Winston Hide (SANBI, South Africa), Raphael Isokpehi (Jackson State University, USA). ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Pour toute question ou pour envoyer des informations, transmettez un courrier électronique à / If you have any question, or information to be forwarded to riip-info, please send an e-mail to : riip-contact@pasteur.fr Les archives des RIIP-Info peuvent être consultées sur le site / See all the RIIP-Info on the website : http://www.pasteur-international.org/Actualite/riip-info/archives/ |