Girls' Day 2010 on April 22 - Your career as a scientist!
Can I enjoy Bioinformatics? What does a nutritionist in a research lab? What tasks does a technician have in an institute? If you are interested in answers to these kinds of questions, or just want to get a taste of science, then the BIOTEC and the DFG-Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden is the right place for you on April 22 from 3pm! Here, researchers from all over the world are working in different areas, like cell biology, biophysics, (regenerative) medicine, or bioinformatics. You will have the opportunity to talk with scientists and ask them lots of questions. A tour through our building will also give you an idea about the research taking place. Interested girls can register here for the Girl's Day.
Students for project wanted! iGEM Call 2010
Are you as a student interested in building new biological systems in a team of students? Do you have first biological lab experience and enthusiasm? Would you like to fly to the MIT Boston this year? Then the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) could be exactly right for you! iGEM is the first Synthetic Biology interdisciplinary competition for undergraduate students. Student teams are given the chance to gain independent scientific experiences. The team will get a kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. They will use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells. The “iGEM - Team” will experiment during the summer months at the BIOTEC TU Dresden with the support of scientific PIs and will in the end present their results at MIT. In 2009, 112 teams with 1.700 undergraduates from 26 different countries joined iGEM. The iGEM Team 2009 of the BIOTEC Dresden received a silver medal. If you want to apply, please send a succinct CV, a description of your motivation plus a short description of your potential idea for the project (English or German in pdf format) until February 28, 2010 to Susan Fischer (susan.fischer(at)biotec.tu-dresden.de). See full call here.
BIOTEC and Zheijang University cooperate to research cancer factors
Bioinformatics from the BIOTEC meet colleagues from January 12-15, 2010 for the “Sino-German Workshop on computational systems biology approaches for cancer research and biomarker discovery” in the Chinese city Hangzhou, a partner city of Dresden. The meeting marks the start for a cooperation between both locations, in order gain a better understanding about the interaction between genetic factors in cancer. The Dresden scientists around Prof. Michael Schroeder from the BIOTEC at the TU Dresden can offer their know-how in computer based prediction of the survival of cancer in this cooperation. They will apply this method together with Prof. Biayang Lin, the director of the newly founded Zhejiang-California International Nanosystems Institute (ZCNI), to data of prostate cancer. The Zheijang University in Hangzhou is, according to the China National Ranking 2008, the third best in the country. The meeting is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
