Biosciences
2 courses:
Practical Bioinformatics / Data Analysis
Dates: September 1 - 3, 2010 (Practical Bioinformatics)
September 7 - 9, 2010 (Data-Analysis) (Places are already filled!)
Location, time: AWI Bremerhaven, Building E-4005 (Weserturm), 9:30 to 4 pm
Language: English
Lecturers: Dr. Stephan Frickenhaus, AWI Bremerhaven
Content: Practical Bioinformatics (Homology search, Pathway-Databases, Genomes), Data Analysis in R (testing, multivariate analysis, ordination, PCA, Clustering, Visualization)
Target group: The courses are designed for AWI members and interested students involved in AWI research (mainly biological, not restricted to molecular).
Another round will be given beginning 2011, specialized for ESSRES and POLMAR, more focusing on the fundamentals of statistics and bioinformatics.
Remarks: The room has space for at max. 19 participants in each round; you will need your own notebook-computer with WLAN.
The R-course starts with an introduction to R in practice (www.r-project.org); the bioinformatics course will use Web-servers and software from the Web (BLAST).
For some it may be a good idea to join both courses, as e.g. comparative transcriptomic can make use of R efficiently for identification of common expressed genes / functions, working with lists of genes / annotations.
For the third day in each course it is planned to work on "user-contributed problems"; i.e., you should bring your data of interest with you and we try a bit analysis all together.
More information and registration: Please write an email to Stephan Frickenhaus with topic "Course BI" and/or "Course R", respectively.
TOPICAL: Places in the "Course R" are already filled, further applications will be considered only to fill up positions of those who cancel.
Summer School
The Wadden Sea as World Heritage Site - Ecology and Sustainable Use
Date: September 14 - 24, 2010
Location: Wadden Sea Station Sylt (Germany)
Language: English
POLMAR credit points: 10
Lecturers: Dr. Harald Asmus, Dr. Ragnhild Asmus, Wadden Sea Station Sylt
Scope: New challenges for science and society are arising from the nomination of the Wadden Sea as UNESCO World Heritage Site. The World Heritage award highlights the global value of the young and still developing ecosystem of the Wadden Sea. This open system is subject to many changing environmental conditions and processes. The Wadden Sea will definitely look different in 100 years time – will it then still be a World Heritage Site? Will the natural processes and dynamics characterising the Wadden Sea still be maintained? Is the integrity of the World Heritage ensured? To assess this we need research in different fields of science including comparative research in other areas. In the frame of this Summer School we will study and discuss some burning issues of coastal change in the Wadden Sea:
Topics: Climate change: Rising temperature & sea level, CO2 increase & ocean acidification; Changing coastal morphology & sediment dynamics Ecological functions under threat: Effects of ocean acidification on biota, infections & resistance, species invasion, changing trophic interactions, migration & distribution, accidental & deliberate oil spills; Sustainable use of goods & services: Fishery, aquaculture, energy generation, tourism; Global value of the UNESCO World Heritage award
Attendance: Participants (the number is restricted to 17) should have a marine life science background. The course will be held in English. The costs for the summer school will be 200 Euro for accommodation in the guest house and meals.
Application: Please submit your application before 31 August 2010 to:
Ragnhild Asmus and Margit Ludwig-Schweikert, Sylt
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