Hello all, ***The application deadline for both GMOD summer schools is April 6, one week from now.***
GMOD Summer School - Americas will be held 16-19 July at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), in Durham, NC, USA. Student tuition is free. See http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Americas GMOD Summer School - Europe will be held 3-6 August at the University of Oxford, in Oxford, UK. This is a part of GMOD Europe 2009, which includes the next GMOD Meeting. Student tuition is £75. See http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Europe Please contact the GMOD Help Desk ([email protected]) if you have questions. We hope to see you in Durham or Oxford, Dave C. On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Dave Clements, GMOD Help Desk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > GMOD is offering two Summer Schools in 2009, one on each side of the > Atlantic. GMOD Summer Schools > (http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Summer_School) introduce new GMOD users to > the GMOD project and include several days of hands-on training on how > to install, configure and administer GMOD tools. The 2008 GMOD Summer > School was a great success with 25 students from 4 countries in > attendance. > > Americas, 16-19 July > - at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Durham, NC, USA > - Student tuition is free, thanks to NIH grant 1R01HG004483-01. > - http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Americas > > Europe, 3-6 August > - at the University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom > - Part of GMOD Europe 2009, which includes the next GMOD Meeting > - Student tuition is £75 > - http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Europe > > The schools will feature training on these GMOD components: > * GBrowse - the most widely installed genome viewer on the web > * Chado - a modular and extensible database schema > * Apollo - genome annotation editor > * BioMart - biological data warehouse system > * GBrowse_syn - a GBrowse based synteny viewer > * JBrowse - a brand new Web 2.0 genome browser > * Artemis-Chado Integration (Europe only) > * MAKER - Genome annotation pipeline (Americas only) > * Tripal - Web front end for Chado (Americas only) > > Applications for the 2009 GMOD Summer Schools are now being accepted. > > ***The deadline for applications is the end of the day, April 6.*** > > Enrollment is limited to 25 participants in each course. If > applications exceed capacity (and we expect they will) then applicants > will be picked based on the strength of their application. Applicants > will be notified of their admission status by mid April. > > Please contact the GMOD Help Desk if you have any questions. > > Thanks, > > Dave Clements > GMOD Help Desk > [email protected] > > http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Americas > http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Europe > http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Europe_2009 > _______________________________________________ apollo mailing list [email protected] http://mail.fruitfly.org/mailman/listinfo/apollo
