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Acknowledgements
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Advanced Course on Bioinformatics and Comparative
Genome Analysis June 30 - July 12,
2008 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina,
Florianopolis, Brazil Organizers/Contact
Alberto M.R. Davila, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz,
FIOCRUZ, Rio, Brazil Edmundo Grisard,
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina,
Florianopolis, Brazil Hugo Naya, Institut
Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay Fredj Tekaia,
Institut Pasteur Paris, France.
Course web page http//www.pasteur.fr/tekaia/ACB
CGA.html
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Financial support
CNPq/QUADTRYP/FINEP
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We would like to thank the Universidade Federal
de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianopolis for
hosting this course and particularly Dr. Maria
Lucia de Barros Camargo - UFSC Vice-Chancellor of
Post-Graduation.
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We are grateful to all the colleagues and
administrative staff who devoted much of their
time to efficiently help setting this course. We
acknowledge the following colleagues
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From the Institut Pasteur Paris
(http//www.pasteur.fr) -Direction des affaires
internationales Yves Charpak, Roberto Bruzzone,
Eliane Cöeffier -Service Missions Michèle
Leclerc, Murielle Dupuis -Gestion du
Budget Marie-Pierre Gratius -Secretariat Martine
Rambaud.
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From EMBO (http//www.embo.org/projects/world/)
(Courses Workshops/World Activities) Maria
Barbosa, Programme Manager Anne Seller,
Administrator Lynne Turnbull, on line-Helpdesk
Administrator.
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We are grateful to all the colleagues who
accepted our invitations for devoting much of
their time and efforts to participate in this
course
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Sonia Abdelhak (Institut Pasteur Tunis
Tunisia) Mario Dantas (UFSC, Florianopolis
Brazil) Alberto Davila (FIOCRUZ, Rio
Brazil) Antonio Basilio de Miranda (FIOCRUZ,
Rio Brazil) Bas Dutilh (CMBI, Nijmegen
Holland) André Goffeau (Université Catholique
de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium) Gustavo
Goldman (Universidade de Sao Paulo Brazil)
Leo Goostadt (University of Oxford UK)
Edmundo Grisard (UFSC, Florianopolis Brazil)
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Grégory Nuel (University Paris-Descartes
France) Christian Probst (ICC/FIOCRUZ,
Curitiba Brazil) Joao Setubal (Virginia
Bioinformatics Institute USA) Fredj Tekaia
(Institut Pasteur Paris France) Julie
Thompson (IGBMC, Strasbourg France)
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DVD Bibliography
Thanks to Hugo Naya and Natalia Rego (Institut
Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay)
The DVD includes
Fundamental recent references in Bioinformatics
and Comparative Genome Analysis. Subdivided
into items Methods Genomes Comparative
Genomics Duplication Evolution Orthologs
Phylogeny Selection Tree of Life Courses
and conference presentations.
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We would like to acknowledge the monitors
Glauber Wagner, MSc - UFSC Guilherme Arthur
Geronimo, UFSC Juliano de Carvalho Cury,
UFSC for their efficient help during the course.
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Milestones of the course organization
Submission Institut Pasteur Paris July 10,
2007 Submission EMBO July 10, 2007 CNPq
application July, 2007 Course Announcement
January, 2007 Application deadline March 31,
2008 Candidate evaluation and selection (20)
April 10, 2008 Course starting June, 30,
2008 Course evaluation (mandatory) July 12,
2008 Course and financial reports August 30,
2008.
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10 supplementary students from FIOCRUZ 6F / 4M
have regularly attended the course.
Travel grants 2 students