Meeting: EU-US Training in Marine Bioinformatics, June 16-28, 2013 Newark, Delaware USA

现代分子和基因组方法使生物学家能够提出和回答以前难以回答的问题。这些现代的方法产生了大量的数据，这需要使用计算工具来进行有效和高效的分析。海洋微生物学家越来越多地使用这种方法来审问复杂的海洋微生物群落，这些微生物群落无法通过使用其他方法来更好地了解。然而，大多数海洋科学教育项目并没有准备好提供利用最现代工具所需的计算培训。将开设海洋生物信息学课程，培训今天的海洋科学家使用这些现代计算工具，以提高他们获得对这些海洋微生物系统的新理解和见解的能力。这些培训需求在美国和欧盟都得到了认可。培训课程将是第二年举办，这次将于2013年6月在特拉华州纽瓦克的特拉华州生物技术研究所举行。海洋生物信息学培训课程的主要目的是将年轻科学家聚集在一个论坛上，为未来的国际合作奠定基础。本课程旨在为研究生、博士后研究人员和教师提供资源，以获得开发相关实验设计和分析海洋环境中的多样性、(元)基因组学、(元)转录组和相关环境背景数据所需的技能。该课程将培训30名学员，其中15名来自美国，15名来自欧盟。该奖项将支持来自美国的个人参与。参加者将来自计算机科学、生物信息学、海洋微生物生态学、分子微生物学、环境科学和海洋学等一系列背景。课程将由以下科学教席组织：美国路易斯安那州特拉华大学海洋科学与政策学院詹妮弗·F·比德尔和德国不来梅不来梅与雅各布斯大学马克斯·普朗克海洋微生物研究所的弗兰克·奥利弗·格洛克纳。本课程将通过为早期职业科学家提供广泛的跨学科培训来扩展他们的研究技能，从而影响他们。课程结束后，每位学员将被要求报告他们为传播课程材料所做的努力。课程网址为：http://www.microb3.eu/events/workshops/eu-us-training/2013.

Modern molecular and genomic approaches have enabled biologists to ask and answer questions that had previously been intractable. These modern approaches yield vast volumes of data, which require the use of computational tools for effective and efficient analysis. Marine microbiologists are increasingly employing such methods to interrogate complex marine microbial communities, which have defied greater understanding by use of other approaches. However, most marine science educational programs are not prepared to offer the computational training needed to utilize the most modern tools. A course in marine bioinformatics will be offered to train today's marine scientists in these modern computational tools to enhance their ability to gain novel understanding and insights about these marine microbial systems. These training needs are recognized in the US as well as in the European Union. The training course will be held for the second year, this time at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute in Newark, Delaware in June 2013. The main aims of the Marine Bioinformatics training course are to bring together young scientists in a forum that will set the groundwork for future international collaborations. This course aims to provide a resource for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty to acquire the skills-set necessary to develop relevant experimental designs and for analysis of diversity, (meta)genomics, (meta)transcriptomics and associated environmental contextual data from the marine environment. The course will train 30 participants, with 15 participants from the US and 15 participants from the European Union. This award will support the participation of individuals from the US. Participants will be recruited from a range of backgrounds such as computer science, bioinformatics, marine microbial ecology, molecular microbiology, environmental science and oceanography. The course will be organized by scientific chairs: Jennifer F. Biddle, School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware, Lewes DE, USA and Frank Oliver Glöckner, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen & Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany. This course will impact early career scientists by providing them broad interdisciplinary training to expand their research skills. Each participant will be required to report on their efforts to disseminate course material after the course ends. The course website can be found at http://www.microb3.eu/events/workshops/eu-us-training/2013.