ICGEB May April March February Meetings and Courses 2016 Course “Basic Biotechnology Techniques” Feb Mar Organiser: Aftab Ahmad (NAYS, Pakistan) Contact: president@nays.com.pk Islamabad, Lahore, Faisalabad and Karachi - PAKISTAN 29 Feb Course “Synthetic and System Biology Applications in Bioenergy” 09 Mar New Delhi, INDIA Organiser: Syed Shams Yazdani (ICGEB New Delhi, India) Contact: ws2@icgeb.res.in 21 Mar Course “RNA Structure and Function” 24 Trieste, ITALY Organiser: Glauco Tocchini-Valentini (Institute of Cell Biology/CNR, Rome, Italy) Contact: courses@icgeb.org 14 Apr 15 Conference “Improving the Learning of Biology and Related Sciences at the Pre-University Level” Organiser: Jorge E. Allende (Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile) Contact: pdroguett@med.uchile.cl Course “Fluorescence Microscopy” In collaboration with Nikon Organiser: Alessandro Marcello (ICGEB Trieste, Italy) Contact: courses@icgeb.org Santiago, CHILE 02 May 04 Trieste, ITALY 11 May Workshop “International Symposium on Phenomes and Genomes” 13 Shanghai, CHINA Course “Bioinformatics: Computer Methods in Molecular and Systems Biology” Organiser: Sándor Pongor (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary) Contact: courses@icgeb.org 08 Jun 10 Course “Microbial Inoculants for a Sustainable Agriculture” Organiser: Giuliano Degrassi (IBIOBA-ICGEB, Buenos Aires, Argentina) Contact: degrassi@icgeb.org 27 Jun 01 Jul The Arturo Falaschi Conference Series 2016 “At the Intersection of DNA Replication and Genome Maintenance: from Mechanisms to Therapy” Organiser: Alessandro Vindigni (Saint Louis University School of Medicine, USA) Contact: DNAreplication2016@icgeb.org http://www.icgeb.org/DNAReplication2016.html Course “Techniques in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering of Plants and Bacteria” Organiser: Abolade Samuel Afolabi (SHESTCO, Abuja, Nigeria) Contact: abolade.afolabi@wagner.edu 10 Jul 15 Workshop “New modes of HIV-1 Prevention, Vaccines and Treatment” Organiser: Jeffrey Dorfman (ICGEB Cape Town, South Africa) Contact: nurhaan.larnie@icgeb.org 12 Sep 20 Course “Epigenetics in Cancer Research: Biological and Technical Advances” Organiser: Eliana Saul Furquim Werneck Abdelhay (Instituto Nacional de Câncer José Alencar Gomes da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Contact: eabdelhay@inca.gov.br 19 Sep 22 Workshop “Bridging the Gap between Agriculture and Human Health” Organiser: M. Iqbal Parker (ICGEB Cape Town, South Africa) Contact: nurhaan.larnie@icgeb.org 19 Sep 24 Course “Cellular Imaging Techniques” Izmir, TURKEY Organiser: Gunes Ozhan (iBG-Izmir, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey) Contact: gunes.ozhan@deu.edu.tr 05 Oct 08 Course “International School of Bioinformatics and Computational Neuroscience 2016” Organiser: Janneth González Santos (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia) Contact: janneth.gonzalez@javeriana.edu.co Course “Marker-Assisted Breeding (MAB) for Tracking Multiple Traits of Interest in Plant Breeding” Organiser: John Baison (Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa) Contact: baisonj@arc.agric.za 24 Oct 26 Workshop “Molecular Biology of Leishmania” Organiser: Lawrence Banks (ICGEB Trieste, Italy) Contact: courses@icgeb.org 24 Oct 28 ICGEB Workshop within the “Biotechnology Summit 2016 (BS16)” Sonora, MEXICO Organiser: Susana Lozano-Muñiz (Universidad del Papaloapan, Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico) Contact: info@bio.edu.mx 08 Nov 10 “2nd ICGEB Workshop on Human Papillomavirus: from Basic Biology to Cancer Prevention” Organiser: Paul Chan (Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China) Contact: ceid@med.cuhk.edu.hk Course “Role of NMR Spectroscopy in Structural Biology, Metabonomics and Drug Discovery” Organiser: Neel Sarovar Bhavesh (ICGEB New Delhi, India) Contact: ws@icgeb.res.in 23 May 27 June Trieste, ITALY La Plata, ARGENTINA October September July Trieste, ITALY 04 Jul 15 Abuja, NIGERIA Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Bogotá, COLOMBIA 19 Oct 30 November Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA Trieste, ITALY Hong Kong, CHINA 15 Nov 26 New Delhi, INDIA 23 Nov Workshop “Autophagy: Physiological and Pathological Roles” 24 Santiago, CHILE December Organiser: Hong Ma (Fudan University, Shanghai, China) Contact: cicgd@fudan.edu.cn 12 Dec 14 “V ICGEB Workshop on Human RNA Viruses” San José, COSTA RICA Organiser: Alfredo Criollo (Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile) Contact: alcriollo@u.uchile.cl Organiser: José Alberto Bonilla (CIBCM - Universidad de Costa Rica) Contact: jose.bonilla@ucr.ac.cr ICGEB Sponsored Events Oct ‘15 Feb ‘16 “JCOM Masterclasses 2015/16” Organiser: Paola Rodari (SISSA Medialab srl, Trieste, Italy) Contact: masterclasses@jcom.sissa.it 29 Feb 11 Mar “Processing and Analysis of Fluorescence Microscopy Images” Organiser: Federico Lecumberry (Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay) Contact: secretaria@pasteur.edu.uy 21 Apr 25 International Workshop “Emerging Target Therapies in Cancer & Autoimmunity” Organiser: Silvio Perea Rodríguez (Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, La Habana, Cuba) Contact: silvio.perea@cigb.edu.cu 03 Sep 07 EMBO Conference on “Lymphocyte Antigen Receptor Signaling” Organiser: Cosima Baldari (University of Siena, Italy) Contact: cosima.baldari@unisi.it 04 Sep 08 “Fourth International Conference on Polyamines. Biochemical, Physiological and Clinical Perspectives” Organiser: Enzo Agostinelli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Contact: enzo.agostinelli@uniroma1.it “10th International Congress of the NDP Kinase/NM23/awd Gene Family” Organiser: Maja Herak Bosnar (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia) Contact: mherak@irb.hr Trieste, ITALY Montevideo, URUGUAY Varadero, CUBA Siena, ITALY Rome, ITALY Graphic: M. Prata, ICGEB 09 Oct 13 Dubrovnik, CROATIA ICGEB Conferences Unit Padriciano, 99 I-34149 Trieste, Italy Tel: +39-040-3757332/7333 Fax: +39-040-226555 http://www.icgeb.org/meetings-2016.html E-mail: courses@icgeb.org ICGEB International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Developing Knowledge