Highlights & News

19 December 2012 – Proteopedia Workshop

Nov 152012

We invite all interested researchers, lecturers and students to a hands-on theory course to learn about the research tool Proteopedia (http://proteopedia NULL.org), given by Dr. Jaime Prilusky, Head of the Bioinformatics Unit at the Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Date: 19 December 2012
Venue: Building 210, Basement floor, Faculty of Biological Sciences, PUC
Registration: http://melolab.org/proteopedia (http://melolab NULL.org/proteopedia)

The course will be given in Spanish.
Limited number of participants.
Registration is free.
Flyer download (in Spanish)

Proteopedia (http://proteopedia.org/ (http://proteopedia NULL.org/)) – analogous to Wikipedia – is an interactive resource which facilitates the teaching, study and understanding of three-dimensional protein structures and their role in biological function. Protopedia is widely used in scientific research, for preparation of publication manuscripts and for teaching of biochemistry and medicine from secondary school to postgraduate level.

Session 1 (9:00 am – 1:00 pm)

This introductory session will provide the required knowledge to use this research tool for future work.

Session 2 (3:00 pm – 6:00 pm)

Hands-on session with the aim to create your own entry in Protopedia about a protein of your interest.

Please send all inquiries about the workshop to: ferodriguez.mbl@gmail.com (ferodriguez NULL.mbl null@null gmail NULL.com)

8 October 2012 – Visiting the Institut Pasteur of Montevideo

Oct 082012

MBL researches Juan José Cifuentes, Andreas Schüller, and Francisco Melo visit our collaborative research partners at the Institut Pasteur of Montevideo (http://www NULL.pasteur NULL.edu NULL.uy/), Uruguay. We met with the group of Dr. Sergio Pantano (PI, expert in molecular dynamics simulations) to initiate collaborations in the area of protein-DNA interactions. We further met with Dr. Pablo Oppezzo (Director of the Recombinant Proteins Unit) and with Dr. Otto Pritsch (Director of the Molecular Biophysics Unit).

2 October 2012 – XXXV Annual Meeting of the Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Chile

Oct 022012

XXXV Reunión Anual de la Sociedad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Chile

The entire MBL lab visists the lovely town of Puerto Varas in the south of Chile to attent the XXXV Annual Meeting of the Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Chile (http://www NULL.sbbmch NULL.cl/) (2-5 October 2012), presenting their research in talks and during the poster sessions.

15 July 2012 – 20th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology

Jul 152012

MBL researchers present their results related to spinal cord regeneration of Xenopus laevis, prediction of transcription factor binding sites, and prediction of transcription factor functions at the 20^th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (http://www NULL.iscb NULL.org/ismb2012/) (ISMB) in Long Beach, CA, USA.

17 March 2012 – ISCB Latin America 2012 Conference on Bioinformatics

Mar 172012

Dr. Francisco Melo organizes the ISCB Latin America 2012 Conference on Bioinformatics (http://www NULL.iscb NULL.org/iscb-latinamerica2012), the second Latin America regional meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), March 17^th-21^st 2012 in Santiago, Chile. More than 250 researchers, primarily from countries in Latin America, attended and several MBL researchers presented their work.