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Infection Metabolomics Workshop in Umeå, 23-24 February 2016

A two-day workshop focusing on metabolomics and infection medicine in a broad sense will be held at Umeå University 23-24 February 2016. The workshop will include introduction to small molecules and metabolomics via lectures by invited speakers active in the field. Practical orientation on how metabolomics studies can be performed and information from the Swedish Metabolomics Centre (www.swedishmetabolomicscentre.se) will also be provided.

A related workshop will be held 25-26 February focusing on chemical and data analysis: metabolomics topics covering chemical and data analysis will be described in greater depth. Other areas of applications will also be covered.

Link to additional information and registration

Link to preliminary schedule 23-26 February

Deadline for registration to both workshops: 1 February, 2016.

New courses and opportunities at www.mims-infectantibio.se!

The following new courses have been advertised at https://ndpia.se/current_events/:

Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy (2-4 December 2015, UmU)

Protein structure and drug design (18-19 January 2016, LU)

Introduction to Bioinformatics using NGS data (25-29 January 2016, UU)

Additional opportunities:

Participants of the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics are invited to participate in the PhD/postdoc Symposium at Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany (10 December 2015) – please take this opportunity to increase your network! Registration deadline – 8 November.

The SciLifeLab Bioinformatics platform offers The Swedish Bioinformatics Advisory Program. Via this program PhD students can apply for a senior bioinformatician as a personal advisor for up to two years of their PhD studies. The deadline for the second round of applications expires 19 November 2015.

Jobs and fellowships are listed at via https://ndpia.se/jobsfellowships/

Course in protein structure and drug design at LU 18-19 January 2016

Take the opportunity to learn more about protein structure and drug design during a two-day 1 ECTS course at Lund University 18-19 January 2016! Participants will gain deeper understanding and hands-on knowledge about protein-ligand interactions, compound docking and structures in drug design.

Overview of course content:

Day 1
Lecture: Protein-ligand interactions and drug design. Structure-based drug design (SBDD): Hit identification, hit optimisation lead generation
Tutorial: In silico screening and compound docking

Day 2
Lecture: Structural aspect of protein synthesis inhibition by antibiotics
Tutorial: Assessment and analysis of docking results

Link to additional information and registration

Deadline for registration: 1 December, 2015

Please visit www.proteinstructures.com for general information on protein structures.

Networking opportunity at the Helmholtz Centre in Germany 10 December!

The National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA) collaborates with Helmholtz International Graduate School for Infection Research (HZI Graduate School) and NDPIA participants are invited to the HZI Graduate School PhD and ESR Symposium 10 December, 2015 (ESR = Early Stage Researcher: HZI postdocs at most two years after PhD graduation). At the symposium all participants will present either a poster or a talk.

Link to symposium flyer.

A maximum of 10 NDPIA participants can join this year’s symposium. Therefore, applications to participate in the symposium should be made via https://ndpia.se/events/phdpostdoc-symposium-at-helmholtz-centre-for-infection-research-germany/ as soon as possible (deadline 8 November).

The symposium and accommodation in Braunschweig 9-11 December is free of charge and co-funding of travel costs is guaranteed for the 10 selected NDPIA participants.

Information about HZI Graduate School and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research via the NDPIA web page.

Please take this opportunity to extend your scientific network!