Course announcement – Call for application
Advanced Course on Bioinformatics and Comparative
Genome Analysis
June 30 – July 12, 2008.
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
http://www.pasteur.fr/~tekaia/ACBCGA.html
Organizers/Contact:
Alberto M. R. Dávila
Edmundo Grisard
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz. Brazil.
e-mail: davila@fiocruz.br
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina,
Florianópolis. Brazil.
e-mail: grisard@ccb.ufsc.br
Hugo Naya
Fredj Tekaia
Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay
e-mail : naya@pasteur.edu.uy
Institut Pasteur Paris, France
e-mail: tekaia@pasteur.fr
With support from:
Institut Pasteur Paris/EMBO/CNPq/FIOCRUZ/
How to Apply
• Pre-requisites The course is aimed for motivated Ph.D. and Post-doctoral students, as well as young assistant
professors and junior scientists in Public Institutions from developing countries, who are
interested in Bioinformatics and Genome Analysis.
The course is an advanced course intended for candidates familiar with sequence analysis
and who need to extend their competences to genome analysis.
Acceptance will be subject to selection process and preference will be given to research
scientists from the International Network of Institute Pasteur Institutions.
• Travel costs: Accepted candidates should be able to pay their roundtrip travel fees to attend
the course.
• Cost : The course is free.
• Accommodation and subsistence: Acceptance to the course includes free accommodation
(double room based) breakfast, lunch and dinner from June 30 evening to July 13 morning,
2008.
• Application:
Applicants are requested to complete the Course application form (see file) and to send a
short cv, before March 31, 2008.
• Number of places: There is a maximum number of 20 places available for the course,
among which 4 are reserved for Brazilian applicants.
• Course language: English.
• Conferences and talks access to a wide audience:
Besides the 20 accepted students, conferences and talks are open to interested colleagues,
particularly (but not limited to) those from Brazil. Interested colleagues are requested to
arrange their accommodation on their own.
• Deadlines:
-Closing date for application is March 31, 2008. Applications will not be accepted after
this date.
-Selected candidates will be informed on April 10, 2008.
• Selection Criteria
Twenty (20) candidates will be selected following the criteria:
-Must be PhD, Post-doctoral student, junior or senior researcher;
-Member of a Research Academic Institution in South or Central America, Africa or Asia;
-Good knowledge in Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Sequence analysis, Programming
and Practical Computer skills under Unix (Linux);
-All candidates must have access to e-mail and Internet;
-All candidates must be fluent in English;
-All candidates must be available full-time for the entire duration of the course;
-Priority will be given to candidates whose research activities will immediately benefit from
the course as reflected by motivation and recommendation letters;
-Able to pay own transport expenses;
-Four (4) students are selected according to the previous criteria among the Brazilian
applicants.