3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY (INCOBS-2012)

16th -18th February, 2012 ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPER

Organised by DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY(DDE) Annamalai University Annmalainagar-608002 Tamilnadu, India

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Positions for Freshers

Opportunity for Freshers as Medical Editor post at Cactus Communications, Mumbai Cactus Communications is a pioneering language services company serving more than 25,000 clients across 73 countries. In line with its mission—growth through effective communication, Cactus offers specialist academic editing, medical communications, publication support, transcription, and training services to individuals and corporations across sectors such as academia, publishing, and pharmaceuticals.  Candidates with scientific field degree apply for Specialist – CSD Job at Novartis A global healthcare leader, Novartis has one of the most exciting product pipelines in the industry today. A pipeline of innovative medicines brought to life by diverse, talented and performance driven people. All of which makes us one of the most rewarding employers in our field. Designation : Specialist – CSD Job Description Freshers jobs at Jubilant LifeSciences – Biotech/ Biochem/ Microbiology Jubilant Biosys Ltd, is a part of the Jubilant LifeSciences family of companies with R&D centers in India and the USA and business offices in Asia and North America. Jubilant Biosys has global reach and provides comprehensive drug discovery services – from target discovery to clinical development in partnership with leading healthcare companies worldwide. Freshers apply for Area sales Manager – Life Science Division at GE Healthcare, India GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare’s expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring and life support systems, disease research, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping physicians detect disease earlier and to tailor personalized treatments for patients. GE Healthcare

Bio Saga - Live Projects & Internship

3 Industry facilities open for Internship & Live Projects,

• 2 well equipped labs providing Drug Discovery Internships;

• 1 providing hands on live training and live project on NGS & microarray data analysis

• who can benefit?

1) Industry people who wish to upgrade and equip themselves

2) Researchers in research facilities, govt. & academics

3) Students & Freshers (Job assistance provided)

for more info write tojkamesh@gamil.com

FREE! Online MATLAB workshop

MATLAB Workshop at Univ. of Oklahoma and via videoconferencingMorning: Data Analysis with MATLAB (no previous MATLAB experience needed)Afternoon: Parallel Computing with MATLABWHEN: Tue Feb 28 2012, 10:00-11:30am and 1:00-3:30pm Central TimeWHERE: University of Oklahoma, Stephenson Research & Technology CenterCOST: *FREE*SESSION I: Data Analysis with MATLAB(No previous MATLAB experience needed)9:45-10:00am Central Time: Registration and check-in10:00-11:30am Central Time: Data Analysis with MATALBEngineers, scientists, and data analysts worldwide use MATLAB toaccelerate research and to reduce analysis and development time.Attend this seminar to find out how you and your colleagues canuse MATLAB and its add-on products to analyze your data moreeffectively and to overcome some of the limitations you face whenusing spreadsheets for data analysis.We will provide an overview of MATLAB through live demonstrationsshowing how to:* Access data from many sources (files, other software, hardware,etc.)* Use interactive tools for iterative exploration, design, andproblem solving* Automate and capture your work in easy-to-write scripts andprograms* Share your results with others by automatically creating reports.No previous MATLAB experience is needed for Session I.SESSION II: Parallel Computing with MATLABPrerequisite: Session I, or equivalent MATLAB experience12:45-1:00pm Central Time: Registration and check-in1:00-3:30pm Central Time: Parallel Computing with MATLABIn this session, you will learn how to solve computationally anddata-intensive problems using multicore processors, GPUs andcomputer clusters.We will introduce you to high-level programming constructs thatallow you to parallelize MATLAB applications without CUDA or MPIprogramming and to run them on multiple processors.We will also show you how to overcome the memory limits of yourdesktop computer and to solve problems that require manipulatingvery large matrices by distributing your data.Highlights will include:* Toolboxes with built-in support for parallel computing* Creating parallel applications to speed up independent tasks* Programming with distributed arrays to work with large data sets* Scaling up to computer clusters, grid environments, or clouds* Tips on developing parallel algorithmsSpecial add-on session:A representative from OU will offer information for OU MATLABusers who are interested in running MATLAB jobs on OU'ssupercomputing resources.PRESENTER BIOGRAPHYGerardo Hernandez Correa holds a BS in Physics and an MS in AppliedMathematics from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, and anMS in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Insititute(WPI). He is currently completing the requirements for a PhD inMathematical Sciences, also at WPI.At UPRM, his area of research was the theory of distributions andinverse problems, in particular the identification of linearsystems. In his MS thesis, "Identification of Linear Systems,"Gerardo designed and implemented in MATLAB an iterative,non-destructive method for retrieving the convolution kernel oflinear systems.At WPI, in his dissertation, "An Adaptive, MultiresolutionAgent-based Model of Glioblastoma Multiforme", Gerardo designed andimplemented in MATLAB a multi-resolution agent-based model of theevolution of brain tumors, in particular Glioblastoma multiforme.Gerardo's areas of interest include numerical methods -- inparticular Ordinary and Partial Differential Equation solvers --as well as mathematical modeling, dynamical systems and highperformance computing, among others.

Application Support Specialist Job at Monsanto

Monsanto is a Fortune 500 Company, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. It has more than 20,000 employees at 320 locations worldwide in four primary regions – Europe/Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America and North America. It has $11.7 billion in annual sales. In India, it started his operation in 1949 and is headquartered in Mumbai.

Post : Application Support Specialist – Contract
No of Post : Two
Experience : 3 to 7 years
Location : Bangalore
Job Description : The successful candidate will become a member of Technology Pipeline Solutions (TPS) Team, part of Monsanto IT systems, supporting enterprise-level biotech and breeding related software applications. This is a very domain intensive role and will require deep understanding of various concepts in breeding, Biotechnology and data base applications.
Job responsibilities :
1. Quick grasping of enterprise applications and their usage
2. Train the scientific community and ensure effective utilization of applications
3. Day to day interaction with scientists and breeders to provide quality & timely support
4. Proactive in identifying the customer needs, arriving at probable solutions, working closely with IT teams for better solutions
5. The individual will need to interact closely across global teams
Educational Qualification : B.Sc – Agriculture, Bio-Chemistry, Biology, Botany AND M.Sc – Agriculture, Bio-Chemistry, Biology, Botany
Desirable :
a. More then 3 years of Breeding/Plant/Biotech Research experience
b. Work experience with scientific data base/ Bioinformatics applications is desirable.
c. Strong oral and written communication skills, collaboration and networking skills across scientific and international teams, self motivated, strong team player

Contact Details :Executive Name : Rahul Anand
Email Address : rahul.anand@monsanto.com

Deadline : 02.03.12

Sunshine Wellness Studio

Sunshine Wellness Studio:

"We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light"
~Mary Dunbar

Sunshine is a professionally managed Wellness Studio that uses various modalities of clinical hypnotherapy, energy work and crystals for the purpose of healing. Founded and managed by Sri Ram, the success of the concept and this organization can be attributed besides Divine sanction, to what could be termed as the "inner calling" to understand, connect to people and to help heal. Over the years, clients have healed out of physical ailments, found answers in their quest, manifested goals, career changes, riches and so on.

Protein drugs to facilitate easier treatment of cancer

Scientists have discovered a new physical form of proteins that could drastically improve treatments for cancer and other diseases, as well as overcome some of the largest challenges in therapeutics.

The protein formulation strategy, developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, is unprecedented and offers a new and universal approach to drug delivery one that could revolutionize treatment of cancer, arthritis and infectious disease.

“We believe this discovery of a new highly concentrated form of proteins – clusters of individual protein molecules – is a disruptive innovation that could transform how we fight diseases,” Keith P. Johnston, a chemical engineering professor and member of the National Academy Engineering, said.

“It required integration of challenging contributions in fundamental science and engineering from three of our chemical engineering research groups,” he said.

Johnston, Chemical Engineering Professor Thomas M. Truskett and Assistant Professor Jennifer Maynard have led the research.

“The real challenge in developing therapeutics is how do you deliver them to patients,” Maynard said.

Typically, protein biopharmaceuticals are administered intravenously at dilute concentrations in a hospital or clinic. Scientists and engineers have long tried to produce safe drugs at higher concentrations, so that a patient could self-inject the drugs at home, similar to an insulin shot.

However, doing so has been stymied by the fact that proteins, in high-concentration formulations, form aggregates that could be dangerous to patients and gels that cannot be injected.

The Cockrell School research team has introduced a new physical form of proteins, whereby proteins are packed into highly concentrated, nanometer-sized clusters that can pass through a needle into a patient to treat disease.

The novel composition avoids the pitfalls of previous attempts because drug proteins are clustered so densely that they don’t unfold or form dangerous aggregates.

“This general physical concept for forming highly concentrated, yet stable, protein dispersions is a major new direction in protein science,” Johnston said.

A key advance came in 2004, when Truskett predicted that protein-based drugs in solution would be stable if they could somehow be formulated at ultra-high concentrations. At that time, Johnston had nanoparticles of concentrated stable protein but didn’t know how to disperse them in an injectable form.

In 2009, the team formed protein nanoclusters in water simply by properly adjusting the pH (to lower protein charge) and adding sugar to crowd protein molecules together. Upon dilution or subcutaneous injection into a mouse the proteins separate back to individual stable molecules with biological activity.

Once injected, the protein in the bloodstream attacks targeted cells and tumors similarly as for protein delivered via IV therapy. To provide a roadmap for improving the design of nanoclusters, chemical engineering graduate students, Andrea Miller and Ameya Borwankar worked with Truskett and Johnston to develop a new thermodynamic theory.

Another breakthrough for the team came in 2009 when a chemical engineering senior, Brian Wilson, created a transparent dispersion of extremely concentrated protein, which was later found to be formed of nanoclusters.

The study has been published online in the ACS Nano journal.