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Jobs/fellowships announced via mims-infectantibio.se!

If you are looking for a postdoc position or a fellowship, please visit our new page Jobs/fellowships listing vacancies at institutes/organizations focusing on infection biology. Also announcements of separate specific positions are included. No e-mail alerts will be sent when new vacancies are posted, so please make a habit of visiting our new job opportunities page if you are looking for a new position.

Related to this, if you change your status from PhD student to postdoc or from postdoc to another position, please inform anna.holmstrom@umu.se about this, facilitating keeping accurate records of NDPIA participants.

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Free EBI bioinformatics modules at UmU 10-12/17-19 November, registration deadline 26 Oct

In collaboration with the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA) will offer a number of bioinformatics modules 10-12 and 17-19 of November 2015. The modules will be taught at Umeå University by EBI staff and members of NDPIA are offered to participate for free. Non-NDPIA applicants can be considered if the modules are not fully subscribed (also without charge).

Half-day training modules (10-12 November):

  1. Introduction to databases at EMBL-EBI
  2. Protein sequence databases
  3. Protein function and classification
  4. Introduction to sequence searching at EMBL-EBI
  5. Standards and ontologies
  6. Interactions & pathways

Full-day training modules (17-19 November):

  1. Protein structures and tools from the PDBe
  2. Ensembl Genomes
  3. ArrayExpress / Expression Atlas

Link to schedule and information about the modules via EMBL-EBI.

Deadline for registration: 26 October 2015

Link to additional information and registration:

https://ndpia.se/events/embl-ebi-bioinformatics-modules-at-umea-university/

 

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Successful meeting on infections and antibiotics in Umeå 3-6 September

The international conference NSCMID 2015 with focus on infections and antibiotics was held in Umeå 4-6 September 2015. The meeting featured high profile speakers providing basic as well as clinical research perspectives. Two pre-event workshops were held 3 September: the Meet the Experts workshop and a mini course in epidemiology. Altogether more than 100 posters were presented. It was gratifying to note that about half of all 170 participants of the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA) and several international partners of NDPIA had accepted the offer of free participation at NSCMID 2015 on behalf of NDPIA. Of these, more than ten were chosen to present their abstracts orally and delivered high quality presentations. Also a vast majority of NDPIA members participated in the appreciated Meet the Experts sessions where nine different experts introduced specific topics and led parallel group discussions around topic related issues of interests to participants.

NSCMID 2015 discussionNSCMID 2015 poster discussions

The conference was organized by the Nordic Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (NSCMID) in collaboration with Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) and our NDPIA programme. The meeting was also supported by a grant from the Infections and Antibiotics programme of the Swedish Research Council to MIMS.

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New autumn activities – first application deadline 30 September

Please access information about new autumn activities via the links below.

Thematic day on Zoonotic Infections
Thematic day in Uppsala 151014 (free of charge)
Registration deadline 30 September

Introduction to bioinformatics using NGS data
2 ECTS course in Lund 151116-151120
Course fee 1800 SEK
Application deadline 5 October

Assay development in high throughput screening
2 ECTS course in Umeå 151116-151120
Application deadline 26 October

Metagenomics
1 ECTS course in Uppsala 151124-151126
Course fee 1000 SEK
Application deadline 27 October

After having been accepted to the courses participants of the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA) can apply for co-funding of travel and accommodation costs (not for co-funding of course fees) via relevant event page by accessing https://ndpia.se/current_events/.