EUROPEAN BIONFORMATICS INSTITUTE: EBI Open Day,

Find out more about opportunities at Europe's main centre for bioinformatics!

The next open day will take place on Tuesday 15th March from 09:30 to 16:30. This is the perfect opportunity for young scientists who are considering a career in bioinformatics, a PhD or a post doc to find out more about opportunities at Europe's main centre for bioinformatics. You will learn about cutting-edge research projects, get an overview of one of the world's most important collections of biological databases and tools, and be given time to talk one-to-one with the experts who develop and curate these services.

EBI Open Day Programme

Time  Topic

09:30 - 10:00 Registration and Refreshments
10:00 - 10:30 Welcome and Introduction – Janet Thornton 
10:30 - 11:15 PhD Opportunities at the EMBL-EBI – Nick Goldman
11:15 - 12:00 Postdoc opportunities at EMBL &ndash Brenda Stride
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch and demonstrations of the EMBL-EBI core resources 
14:00 - 14:20 Life as a PhD student – Nenad Bartonicek
14:20 - 14:40 Life as a postdoc – Juanma Vaquerizas
14:40 – 15:00 Life as a scientific database curator – Ruth Akhtar
15:00 – 15:20 Life as a software developer – Phil Jones
15:20 – 15:45 Refreshments
15:45 - 16:15  Mathematical models of cellular networks to understand disease – Julio Saez-Rodriguez
16:15 - 16:30  Closing remarks 

Registration is be FREE but places are limited to 40, so please register now to avoid disappointment.

Registration deadline: 15 February 2011

REGISTER HERE

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•Travelling to the EBI
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