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The EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute the Hub for Bioinformatics in Europe
The EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute The hub for bioinformatics in Europe Blaise T.F. Alako, PhD [email protected] www.ebi.ac.uk What is EMBL-EBI? • Part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory • International, non-profit research institute • Europe’s hub for biological data, services and research The European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg Hamburg Hinxton, Cambridge Basic research Structural biology Bioinformatics Administration Grenoble Monterotondo, Rome EMBO EMBL staff: 1500 people Structural biology Mouse biology >60 nationalities EMBL member states Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom Associate member state: Australia Who we are ~500 members of staff ~400 work in services & support >53 nationalities ~120 focus on basic research EMBL-EBI’s mission • Provide freely available data and bioinformatics services to all facets of the scientific community in ways that promote scientific progress • Contribute to the advancement of biology through basic investigator-driven research in bioinformatics • Provide advanced bioinformatics training to scientists at all levels, from PhD students to independent investigators • Help disseminate cutting-edge technologies to industry • Coordinate biological data provision throughout Europe Services Data and tools for molecular life science www.ebi.ac.uk/services Browse our services 9 What services do we provide? Labs around the -
Functional Effects Detailed Research Plan
GeCIP Detailed Research Plan Form Background The Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership (GeCIP) brings together researchers, clinicians and trainees from both academia and the NHS to analyse, refine and make new discoveries from the data from the 100,000 Genomes Project. The aims of the partnerships are: 1. To optimise: • clinical data and sample collection • clinical reporting • data validation and interpretation. 2. To improve understanding of the implications of genomic findings and improve the accuracy and reliability of information fed back to patients. To add to knowledge of the genetic basis of disease. 3. To provide a sustainable thriving training environment. The initial wave of GeCIP domains was announced in June 2015 following a first round of applications in January 2015. On the 18th June 2015 we invited the inaugurated GeCIP domains to develop more detailed research plans working closely with Genomics England. These will be used to ensure that the plans are complimentary and add real value across the GeCIP portfolio and address the aims and objectives of the 100,000 Genomes Project. They will be shared with the MRC, Wellcome Trust, NIHR and Cancer Research UK as existing members of the GeCIP Board to give advance warning and manage funding requests to maximise the funds available to each domain. However, formal applications will then be required to be submitted to individual funders. They will allow Genomics England to plan shared core analyses and the required research and computing infrastructure to support the proposed research. They will also form the basis of assessment by the Project’s Access Review Committee, to permit access to data. -
Exploring the Structure and Function Paradigm Oliver C Redfern, Benoit Dessailly and Christine a Orengo
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Exploring the structure and function paradigm Oliver C Redfern, Benoit Dessailly and Christine A Orengo Advances in protein structure determination, led by the Figure 1 shows that as the international genomics initiat- structural genomics initiatives have increased the proportion of ives gather pace, both the number of sequences and novel folds deposited in the Protein Data Bank. However, these protein families are still growing at an exponential rate, structures are often not accompanied by functional annotations although the rate of expansion of protein families is with experimental confirmation. In this review, we reassess the substantially less. This trend is also observed among meaning of structural novelty and examine its relevance domain families, which are 10-fold fewer (<10 000) than to the complexity of the structure-function paradigm. the number of protein families. By targeting these, the Recent advances in the prediction of protein function from structural genomics initiatives can aim to characterise the structure are discussed, as well as new sequence-based major building blocks of whole proteins and since these methods for partitioning large, diverse superfamilies into domains recur in different combination in the genomes, it biologically meaningful clusters. Obtaining structural data for will be an important step towards understanding the these functionally coherent groups of proteins will allow us to complete structural repertoire in nature. Furthermore, better understand the relationship between structure and the complement of molecular functions found within function. an organism is likely to be even fewer. For example, 97% of proteins in yeast can be assigned one or more of Address 4000 unique GO terms. -
Gurdon Institute 20122011 PROSPECTUS / ANNUAL REPORT 20112010
The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute 20122011 PROSPECTUS / ANNUAL REPORT 20112010 Gurdon I N S T I T U T E PROSPECTUS 2012 ANNUAL REPORT 2011 http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk CONTENTS THE INSTITUTE IN 2011 INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................................3 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND..........................................................................................................4 CENTRAL SUPPORT SERVICES....................................................................................................5 FUNDING.........................................................................................................................................................5 RETREAT............................................................................................................................................................5 RESEARCH GROUPS.........................................................................................................6 MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE................................................................................44 CATEGORIES OF APPOINTMENT..............................................................................44 POSTGRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES..........................................................................44 SENIOR GROUP LEADERS.............................................................................................44 GROUP LEADERS.......................................................................................................................48 -
EMBO Facts & Figures
excellence in life sciences Reykjavik Helsinki Oslo Stockholm Tallinn EMBO facts & figures & EMBO facts Copenhagen Dublin Amsterdam Berlin Warsaw London Brussels Prague Luxembourg Paris Vienna Bratislava Budapest Bern Ljubljana Zagreb Rome Madrid Ankara Lisbon Athens Jerusalem EMBO facts & figures HIGHLIGHTS CONTACT EMBO & EMBC EMBO Long-Term Fellowships Five Advanced Fellows are selected (page ). Long-Term and Short-Term Fellowships are awarded. The Fellows’ EMBO Young Investigators Meeting is held in Heidelberg in June . EMBO Installation Grants New EMBO Members & EMBO elects new members (page ), selects Young EMBO Women in Science Young Investigators Investigators (page ) and eight Installation Grantees Gerlind Wallon EMBO Scientific Publications (page ). Programme Manager Bernd Pulverer S Maria Leptin Deputy Director Head A EMBO Science Policy Issues report on quotas in academia to assure gender balance. R EMBO Director + + A Conducts workshops on emerging biotechnologies and on H T cognitive genomics. Gives invited talks at US National Academy E IC of Sciences, International Summit on Human Genome Editing, I H 5 D MAN 201 O N Washington, DC.; World Congress on Research Integrity, Rio de A M Janeiro; International Scienti c Advisory Board for the Centre for Eilish Craddock IT 2 015 Mammalian Synthetic Biology, Edinburgh. Personal Assistant to EMBO Fellowships EMBO Scientific Publications EMBO Gold Medal Sarah Teichmann and Ido Amit receive the EMBO Gold the EMBO Director David del Álamo Thomas Lemberger Medal (page ). + Programme Manager Deputy Head EMBO Global Activities India and Singapore sign agreements to become EMBC Associate + + Member States. EMBO Courses & Workshops More than , participants from countries attend 6th scienti c events (page ); participants attend EMBO Laboratory Management Courses (page ); rst online course EMBO Courses & Workshops recorded in collaboration with iBiology. -
Wellcome Investigators March 2011
Wellcome Trust Investigator Awards Feedback from Expert Review Group members 28 March 2011 1 Roughly 7 months between application and final outcome The Expert Review Groups 1. Cell and Developmental Biology 2. Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (Zaf Bashir) 3. Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Health 4. Genetics, Genomics and Population Research (George Davey Smith) 5. Immune Systems in Health and Disease (David Wraith) 6. Molecular Basis of Cell Function 7. Pathogen Biology and Disease Transmission 8. Physiology in Health and Disease (Paul Martin) 9. Population and Public Health (Rona Campbell) 2 Summary Feedback from ERG Panels • The bar is very high across all nine panels • Track record led - CV must demonstrate a substantial impact of your research (e.g. high impact journals, record of ground breaking research, clear upward trajectory etc) To paraphrase Walport ‘to support scientists with the best track records, obviously appropriate to the stage in their career’ • Notable esteem factors (but note ‘several FRSs were not shortlisted’) • Your novelty of your research vision is CRUCIAL. Don’t just carry on doing more of the same • The Trust is not averse to risk (but what about ERG panel members?) • Success rate for short-listing for interview is ~15-25% at Senior Investigator level (3-5 proposals shortlisted from each ERG) • Fewer New Investigator than Senior Investigator applications – an opportunity? • There are fewer applications overall for the second round, but ‘the bar will not be lowered’ The Challenge UoB has roughly 45 existing -
Conference Ontyph Id
10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TYPH ID & OTHER INVASIVE SALMONELLOSES April 4–6, 2017 | Kampala, Uganda 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TYPH ID & OTHER INVASIVE SALMONELLOSES WELCOME April 4–6, 2017 | Kampala, Uganda THE WORLD NEEDS ACTION ON TYPHOID — BUILDING EVIDENCE AND REFINING STRATEGIES The Coalition against Typhoid, housed at the Sabin Vaccine Institute, welcomes you to the 10th International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses. We are pleased to provide a forum for more than 300 researchers, policy makers, immunization managers and advocates to come together to share the latest developments and best strategies to reduce the burden of typhoid, paratyphoid and nontyphoidal salmonelloses (NTS) on communities around the world. The conference theme, “From Evidence to Action,” is timely as we prepare for the introduction of new typhoid conjugate vaccines. The research, evidence and ideas shared this week in Kampala will provide the foundation for global action against typhoid, paratyphoid and NTS. Together, we will review crucial developments to reduce the global burden of these diseases, including results from major surveillance projects in Africa and Asia, the potential of human infection models and strategies for countering antibiotic resistance. The program will also highlight outbreak control methods, exciting innovations in diagnostics, water, sanitation and hygiene strategies for prevention, and policy measures aimed at accelerating the implementation of these interventions. The coming availability of a new generation of typhoid conjugate vaccines makes this a pivotal moment for global action on typhoid. These promising new vaccines offer important advantages over prior vaccines, including longer duration of protection, the ability to protect young children, and the potential for administration with other vaccines in routine immunization of infants. -
Statistical and Computational Methods for Analyzing High-Throughout Genomic Data
Statistical and Computational Methods for Analyzing High-Throughout Genomic Data by Jingyi Li A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics and the Designated Emphasis in Computational and Genomic Biology in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Peter J. Bickel, Chair Professor Haiyan Huang Professor Sandrine Dudoit Professor Steven E. Brenner Spring 2013 Statistical and Computational Methods for Analyzing High-Throughput Genomic Data Copyright 2013 by Jingyi Li 1 Abstract Statistical and Computational Methods for Analyzing High-Throughput Genomic Data by Jingyi Li Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics and the Designated Emphasis in Computational and Genomic Biology University of California, Berkeley Professor Peter J. Bickel, Chair In the burgeoning field of genomics, high-throughput technologies (e.g. microarrays, next-generation sequencing and label-free mass spectrometry) have enabled biologists to perform global analysis on thousands of genes, mRNAs and proteins simultaneously. Ex- tracting useful information from enormous amounts of high-throughput genomic data is an increasingly pressing challenge to statistical and computational science. In this thesis, I will address three problems in which statistical and computational methods were used to analyze high-throughput genomic data to answer important biological questions. The first part of this thesis focuses on addressing an important question in genomics: how to identify and quantify mRNA products of gene transcription (i.e., isoforms) from next- generation mRNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) data? We developed a statistical method called Sparse Linear modeling of RNA-Seq data for Isoform Discovery and abundance Estimation (SLIDE) that employs probabilistic modeling and L1 sparse estimation to answer this ques- tion. -
Janet Thornton Ing for Future Research Needs
THIS MONTH are dedicated to developing and maintaining services THE AUTHOR FILE for the scientific community, including databases such as the genome portal Ensembl, the proteomic data- base UniProt and more, all of which requires strategiz- Janet Thornton ing for future research needs. “These resources don’t Finding ways to navigate the reactions happen overnight; they’re big teams and they have to of life and herd tigers are all part of her think carefully,” she says. workday. Fostering collaborative science internally and across organizational and national boundaries such as for The wealth of available sequenced genomes invites sci- the project ELIXIR—the European life sciences infra- entists to explore the molecular basis of life, to browse structure for biological information, a pan-European and parse the beautiful infrastructure she has spearheaded to help scientists complexity of this now share data—is hard work, especially in times of fiscal “open book,” says Janet belt-tightening. At times, Thornton says, the task can Thornton. feel more like “herding tigers” than cats. A physicist turned Overall she sees the role of computational biology computational shifting, she says. In physics, work by experimentalists biologist, Thornton led to theoretical lines of inquiry. Biology is in its data- directs the European gathering stage, and rapidly moving toward the ability Bioinformatics to model processes such as the effect of a drug on the Institute (EBI), where human body. “We’re only a fraction of the way towards she has cultivated being able to do that,” she says, but she believes the EBI interdisciplinary EBI’s resources help to create the “bedrock” for this teamwork since 2001. -
Protein Family and Fold Occurrence in Genomes: Power-Law Behaviour and Evolutionary Model Jiang Qian, Nicholas M
doi:10.1006/jmbi.2001.5079 available online at http://www.idealibrary.com on J. Mol. Biol. (2001) 313, 673±681 COMMUNICATION Protein Family and Fold Occurrence in Genomes: Power-law Behaviour and Evolutionary Model Jiang Qian, Nicholas M. Luscombe and Mark Gerstein* Department of Molecular Global surveys of genomes measure the usage of essential molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry parts, de®ned here as protein families, superfamilies or folds, in different Yale University, 266 Whitney organisms. Based on surveys of the ®rst 20 completely sequenced gen- Avenue, PO Box 208114, New omes, we observe that the occurrence of these parts follows a power-law Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA distribution. That is, the number of distinct parts (F) with a given geno- mic occurrence (V) decays as F aVb, with a few parts occurring many times and most occurring infrequently. For a given organism, the distri- butions of families, superfamilies and folds are nearly identical, and this is re¯ected in the size of the decay exponent b. Moreover, the exponent varies between different organisms, with those of smaller genomes dis- playing a steeper decay (i.e. larger b). Clearly, the power law indicates a preference to duplicate genes that encode for molecular parts which are already common. Here, we present a minimal, but biologically meaning- ful model that accurately describes the observed power law. Although the model performs equally well for all three protein classes, we focus on the occurrence of folds in preference to families and superfamilies. This is because folds are comparatively insensitive to the effects of point mutations that can cause a family member to diverge beyond detectable similarity. -
TAMAR MASSOYAN-ARTINIAN, on Behalf of Her Children, and MADISON SCHILTZ
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUFFOLK, ss. SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL ACTION NO. _____________ TAMAR MASSOYAN-ARTINIAN, on behalf of her children, and MADISON SCHILTZ, Plaintiffs, v. MONICA BHAREL, in her official capacity as JURY TRIAL DEMANDED Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Defendants. PLAINTIFFS’ MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF THEIR EMERGENCY MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION SIRI & GLIMSTAD LLP ATTORNEYS AT LAW 2 0 0 P A R K A VENUE , 17TH F LOOR N E W Y ORK , N E W Y O R K 1 0 1 6 6 Attorneys for Plaintiffs TABLE OF CONTENTS I. PLAINTIFFS ARE ENTITLED TO A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION .............................. 8 II. PLAINTIFFS HAVE A HIGH LIKELIHOOD OF SHOWING THAT THE FLU SHOT MANDATE IS INVALID AND UNENFORCEABLE ......................................................... 9 A. The DPH Lacked Authority To Adopt The Mandate For Post-Secondary Students .............. 9 1. The Legislature Chose Not To Grant DPH Discretion to Mandate Any New Vaccines for College Students ................................................................................................................. 9 2. The Legislative History Further Makes Plain the DPH’s Lack of Authority to Mandate the Flu Shot to College Students .................................................................... 11 B. The Flu-Shot Mandate Is Invalid Because The DPH Did Not Comply With MAPA .......... 12 1. DPH Was Required to Follow the MAPA ....................................................................... -
Typhoidal Salmonella in Selected Sub- Saharan African Countries
Original research BMJ Glob Health: first published as 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005659 on 2 August 2021. Downloaded from The genomic epidemiology of multi- drug resistant invasive non- typhoidal Salmonella in selected sub-Saharan African countries 1,2 3,4 1 1 Se Eun Park , Duy Thanh Pham, Gi Deok Pak, Ursula Panzner, Ligia Maria Cruz Espinoza,1 Vera von Kalckreuth,1 Justin Im,1 Ondari D. Mogeni,1 1,5 6,7,8,9 10,11 Heidi Schütt- Gerowitt, John A Crump , Robert F Breiman, Yaw Adu- Sarkodie,12,13 Ellis Owusu- Dabo,12,13 Raphaël Rakotozandrindrainy,14 Abdramane Bassiahi Soura,15 Abraham Aseffa,16 Nagla Gasmelseed,17,18 Arvinda Sooka,19 Karen H Keddy,20 Jürgen May,21,22 Peter Aaby,23,24 Holly M Biggs,7,9 Julian T Hertz,7,9 Joel M Montgomery,10 Leonard Cosmas,10 Beatrice Olack,25 Barry Fields,10 Nimako Sarpong,12,22 Tsiriniaina Jean Luco Razafindrabe,14 Tiana Mirana Raminosoa,14 Leon Parfait Kabore,26 Emmanuel Sampo,26 Mekonnen Teferi,16 Biruk Yeshitela,16 Muna Ahmed El Tayeb,17 Ralf Krumkamp,21,22 Denise Myriam Dekker,21,22 Anna Jaeger,21,22 Adama Tall,27 Amy Gassama,27,28 Aissatou Niang,27 Morten Bjerregaard- Andersen,23,24 Sandra Valborg Løfberg,23,24 Jessica Fung Deerin,1 Jin Kyung Park,1 Frank Konings,1 Megan E Carey,29 To cite: Park SE, Pham DT, 30,31,32 1,33 1,34,35 Pak GD, . The genomic Sandra Van Puyvelde, Mohammad Ali, John Clemens, et al 29 29 1 epidemiology of multi- drug Gordon Dougan, Stephen Baker, Florian Marks resistant invasive non- typhoidal Salmonella in selected sub- Saharan African countries.