Connectionists: Call for abstract - Amrita BioQuest 2013, Kerala, India

[Shyam Diwakar]

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First call for abstracts 

Amrita BioQuest 2013 - International Conference on Biotechnology for
Innovative Applications 

CALL FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION - Neurobiology and Computational Neuroscience
track

 

 

Conference dates: August 10-14, 2013

Venue: Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala, India

 

Website: http://amrita.edu/bioquest

(Website is work under progress)

 

Conference theme: "Biotechnology for Innovative Applications"

 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION WEBSITE:

http://www.amritabioquest.org/abstracts 

 

 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN: October 1, 2012

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 15, 2013 

NOTIFICATION OF ABSTRACT ACCEPTANCE:  March 15, 2013

 

Amrita BioQuest 2013 will be held in Kochi/Amritapuri, Kerala, India, on
August 10-14, 2013. The conference will kick off with a day of workshops at
Amrita's Medical campus at Kochi on August 10.  The main tracks of Amrita
BioQuest 2013 will follow on August 12-14.

 

The workshops will be held at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences located
in Kochi (colonial name Cochin), the economic capital of Kerala, also known
as the Queen of the Arabian Sea, connected by its international airport. The
main meeting will be held at Amrita University campus at Amritapuri, a
popular fishing village, which is one hour north of Kollam, 2.5 hours north
of Trivandrum and three hours south of Kochi.  

 

Submissions can include experimental, model-based, as well as more abstract
theoretical approaches relating to any of the tracks of the conference.  We
especially encourage research that mixes experimental and theoretical
studies from the neuroscience community.  We also accept papers that
describe new technical approaches to theoretical and experimental issues in
computational neuroscience or relevant software packages.

 

STEERING COMMITTEE:

Leland Hartwell, Nobel Laureate, President and Director Emeritus, Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Professor of Genome Sciences, University
of Washington, USA

Suresh Subramani, Distinguished Professor, Section of Molecular Biology,
UCSD, USA

 

PROGRAM CHAIR

Bipin Nair, Dean, Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita University, Kollam,
Kerala, India 

 

INVITED SPEAKERS (as of now):

 

Egidio D'Angelo, Professor of Physiology and Director - Brain Connectivity
Center, University of Pavia, Italy

Gaute Einevoll, Professor of Physics, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
(UMB)

Upinder S. Bhalla, Professor, National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS,
TIFR), India

Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Chair person, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian
Institute of Science, India

Rohit Manchanda, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India.

Boro Dropulic, Founder and CSO Lentigen

Jaap Heringa,  Professor of Bioinformatics and Director, Centre for
Integrative Bioinformatics, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands

Gilles McKenna, Head of Department of Oncology and Director of Gray
Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, UK

Jyostna Dhawan, Dean- inStem, NCBS, India.

Michelle Hermiston, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San
Francisco, USA

Ruth J Muschel, CRUK/MRC Professor of Molecular Pathology, University of
Oxford, UK

S. Ramaswamy, CEO of c-CAMP, NCBS, Bangalore, India

Terry Hermiston, Vice President, Site Head, US Innovation Center, Bayer
Healthcare                            

 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:

Submission instructions, submission website, and a full description of the
review process are at http://www.amritabioquest.org/abstracts 

 

AWARDS:

Student posters presented at Amrita BioQuest 2013 will also be judged for
prizes awarded at the conference.

 

Ph.D. and student events:

A special session is being considered for PhD students and other student
researchers and a student contest is being planned during the conference.  A
student interaction session with Prof. Leland Hartwell, Nobel prize winner
(and steering committee member - Amrita BioQuest 2013) is also being
scheduled.   

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Dr. Shyam Diwakar

VALUE @ Amrita - Virtual Amrita Laboratories Universalizing Education

School of Biotechnology
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University)

Amritapuri, Clappana P.O.

Kollam, India. Pin: 690525

Ph:+91-476-2803116 Fax:+91-476-2899722
 <http://research.amrita.edu/compneuro> http://research.amrita.edu/compneuro

 

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