Modelling 3D Facial Shape from DNA
Tuesday 3rd March
1.00 to 2.00pm
Dr Peter Claes, KU Leuven, ESAT/PSI/MIC
Belgium
Small Lecture Theatre, University Dental Hospital, Heath Park
All Welcome
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3961191/pdf/pgen.1004224.pdf
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1872497314001732
Further details:
Mrs Beverley Jones
Email: jonesb5@cardiff.ac.uk / Tel: 029 2074 2447 (Monday, Tuesday & Friday)
Travel grant opportunity
British Council Indonesia Second City HE Partnerships Travel Grant Travel grants of GBP 3,000 are available for academic visits to Indonesia that aim to establish new or substantially deepened faculty or institutional partnerships.
Preference is for proposals that include visits to Indonesian tertiary institutions outside of Java or that include visits to institutions in UK government priority second cities such as Surabaya, Bandung, Makassar and Medan. Ideally the application will include a proposal for giving a lecture/workshop to Indonesian students and/or academics, or a workshop for international officers. The applicant should be a full-time or part-time academic based at a UK university. Travel to take place by end of November 2015 and a report of the visit should be submitted by the end of December 2015.
The deadline for applications is Friday 16th February 2015. Travel grants will be disbursed by 31st March 2015
For more information or to submit an application to the British Council Indonesia Second City HE Partnership Travel Grant please contact: Teresa Birks, Director Education and Society, British Council Indonesia teresa.birks@britishcouncil.or.id
Four PhD students travel to Beijing for a research based placement
In September 2014 Capital Medical University (CMU) hosted Bruno Bastos, Bethan Frugtniet, Jeyna Rasaul and Robyn Bradbury, four CCMRC PhD students. Find out how they got on:
PhD students travel to Beijing
New Chair – Animal Welfare & Research Panel
The College of Biomedical & Life Sciences is seeking to appoint a new Chair to the Animal Welfare & Research Panel, formerly known as the “JBIOS User’s Group”. Applications should be made via an expression of interest (no longer than 500 words) to the Biological Standard’s Officer illustrating how the candidate meets the person specification.
Informal enquiries should be made to the Biological Standards Officer.
Orosia M Asby
Biological Standards Officer
02920 874886
Closing date: Friday 6th February 2015
Human Tissue
Do you use human tissue in research or teaching?
Oversight of all human tissue activity within the University has now moved to the College of Biomedical and Life Sciences. The Pro Vice-Chancellor, Dylan Jones has taken on the role of Corporate Licence Holder Contact on the Human Tissue Act (HTA) licences and will oversee compliance with the HTA for all human tissue held within the University.
A brief self-assessment for compliance with HTA Standards will soon be required for all studies involving the collection, use or storage of human tissue, including studies with NHS ethical approval. Full details will be available shortly.
For any queries please email: HTA@cardiff.ac.uk
Welcome Trust Workshop
ContentMine Workshop at the Wellcome Trust
Dates: 13-14 April 2015
Content mining technologies hold much potential for maximising scientific discovery and the reuse of research through automatedly searching, indexing and analysing the scientific literature.
This workshop aims to educate and engage researchers who are interested in using mining technologies in the biomedical and life sciences. You will receive training in research methods and cutting edge technologies before applying these skills to team projects, which will be presented to invited funders and policy makers on the final afternoon. We additionally offer a unique opportunity to participate in a high-level policy discussion about the future of content mining for science and innovation in the UK.
Thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, this workshop is free but places are limited to 25.
For more information and to register, please visit:
https://github.com/ContentMine/WellcomeTrust-April2015
Location: Darwin Room, Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
Jenny Molloy
Manager, ContentMine
www.contentmine.org