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The introductory workshop in bioinformatics and genomics held at ILRI, Nairobi 24-28 February 2014, was conducted by BecA-ILRI Hub in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and Reed and Lewis & Clark Colleges. The workshop was facilitated by Prof Sarah Schaack, Assistant Professor of Biology, Reed College, USA . (photo credit BecA-ILRI Hub/Ethel Makila)
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Representatives from the Skolkovo Foundation participated in the 2012 BIO International Convention at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center June 18-21. The conference, attended by pharmaceutical companies, teaching hospitals, venture capital firms and over 500 biotechnology companies, drew more than 15,000 attendees to the Boston area.
Belgium - Brussels - 10 March 2014 - Innovation Convention 2014 - Hearing your genes evolve - Deirdre GRIBBIN , Composer - Sarah TEICHMANN , Research Group Leader at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ©EC/CE
BecA-ILRI Hub Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund Fellows at a bioinformatics workshop.
Photo Credit: BecA-ILRI Hub/Tim Hall
The introductory workshop in bioinformatics and genomics held at ILRI, Nairobi 24-28 February 2014, was conducted by BecA-ILRI Hub in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and Reed and Lewis & Clark Colleges. The workshop was facilitated by Prof Sarah Schaack, Assistant Professor of Biology, Reed College, USA . (photo credit BecA-ILRI Hub/Ethel Makila)
Participants on the final day of the Advanced Bioinformatics annual training workshop conducted by BecA-ILRI Hub in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences (SLU) in Nairobi, Kenya on October 18th, 2013
Photo credit: BecA-ILRI/Tim Hall
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 21JAN15 - Nick Goldman , Research Group Leader and Senior Scientist, The Goldman Group, EMBL-EBI European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom captured during the session Brain-Based Chips and DNA Hard Drives in the congress centre at the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 21, 2015.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/Benedikt von Loebell
Students in the biology class, Genomics and Bioinformatics, prepare their final projects in the Scripps Landstrum Laboratory at Knox College. Photo by Peter Bailley.
Participants in the Advanced Bioinformatics annual training workshop conducted by BecA-ILRI Hub in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences (SLU) in Nairobi, Kenya October 7th - 18th, 2013
Photo credit: BecA-ILRI/Tim Hall
Joe and Bank hard at work. The Centre for Applied Genomics, in the Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning, Toronto.
Voigtländer VF-101
Color-Skopar 40mm f/2.8
Ilford XP2 Super, ISO 400
Developing and scanning by Aden Camera, Toronto. I am really liking this film.
BecA Research Scientist Dr. Rob Skilton after hosting a workshop on bioinformatics for ABCF Fellows.
Photo Credit: BecA-ILRI Hub/Tim Hall
Belgium - Brussels - 10 March 2014 - Innovation Convention 2014 - Press point 3 Deirdre GRIBBIN , Composer - Sarah TEICHMANN , Research Group Leader at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ©EC/CE
Attendees at the October 2013 Advanced Bioinformatics Workshop with BecA-ILRI Hub Acting Technology Manager Timothy Kingori (far left)
The Advanced Bioinformatics annual training workshop conducted by BecA-ILRI Hub in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences (SLU) in Nairobi, Kenya October 7th - 18th, 2013
Photo Credit: BecA-ILRI/Tim Hall
Dictionary of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology edited by John M. Hancock and Marketa J. Zvelebil. A handy reference book fro any bioinformatician to have on their bookshelf.
isbn:0471436224 www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471436224
0752224700
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Effect of the Hxt on the transcription of other Fusarium oxysporum sugar transporter genes during consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) of wheat straw/bran.Wild type fungus 11C, Hxt-silenced mutant pSilent-1-Hxt-3 and overexpression mutant pBARGPE1-Hxt-6 were aerobically cultured on wheat straw/bran (10?1 ratio) and RT-PCR was conducted using RNA isolated from samples harvested 24 h post-inoculation. (A) Transcript accumulation in RNA extracts was quantified relative to that of the housekeeping gene ?-tubulin (FOXG_06228.2) by 2?-??Ct method, where ??Ct?=?(Ct, Target gene - Ct, ?-tubulin). Results are based on two experiments, each with three replicates per strain/mutant per medium. Bars indicate the SEM (LSD0.05?=?0.015) (B) A phylogenetic tree was constructed based on the protein sequence of 20 F. oxysporum strain 4287 sugar transporters. Protein sequences were aligned using European Bioinformatics Institutes?s ClustalW2 tool (www.ebi.ac.uk) [62] and a distance tree of 100 bootstrapped data sets was generated by using the Phylogeny.fr program and the neighbor-joining method [64]. Arrows indicated the three genes alluded to in part (A) above that were affected by Hxt expression.
Belgium - Brussels - 10 March 2014 - Innovation Convention 2014 - Hearing your genes evolve - Deirdre GRIBBIN , Composer - Sarah TEICHMANN , Research Group Leader at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ©EC/CE
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 21JAN15 - Nick Goldman , Research Group Leader and Senior Scientist, The Goldman Group, EMBL-EBI European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom captured during the session Brain-Based Chips and DNA Hard Drives in the congress centre at the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 21, 2015.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/Benedikt von Loebell
BecA-ILRI Hub Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund Fellows at a bioinformatics workshop.
Photo Credit: BecA-ILRI Hub/Tim Hall
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BecA-ILRI Hub Research Technician Moses Moses Njahira gets the attention of Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund Fellows at a bioinformatics workshop.
Photo Credit: BecA-ILRI Hub/Tim Hall
BecA-ILRI Hub Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund Fellows at a bioinformatics workshop.
Photo Credit: BecA-ILRI Hub/Tim Hall
From an early age, Tom Hagen has enjoyed watching plants grow and solving complex problems. Now, as the enterprise breeding system manager at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Hagen is combining his expertise in crop breeding and IT to help researchers and farmers be more successful.
“You could say I’m a hybrid scientific consultant – IT system architect,” said Hagen. “I will work with breeding teams to appropriately design software and then manage its development and deployment to facilitate breeding operations at CIMMYT and the International Rice Research Institute.”
The software will help breeders more effectively choose seed varieties, design field trials, collect data and analyze their outcomes. It is intended to assist farmers and extension agents as well.
“It will be able to give them advice about the appropriate seeds to use based on their specific environment and economic situation,” said Hagen. “It can also recommend ways to plant and manage their crop for better yields and higher income.”
Hagen’s interest in using computer programing to analyze large sets of biological data emerged shortly after obtaining a doctorate in plant genetics from the University of Georgia. It was the early 1990s, and bioinformatics was a new frontier. Hagen founded and managed the university’s Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization, and helped create the Bioinformatics Graduate Program.
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Figure S2 (colour inverted) from In Silico Prediction for Regulation of Transcription Factors onTheir Shared Target Genes Indicates Relevant Clinical Implications in a Breast Cancer Population Published in Cancer Informatics