Dear all,

The Research School in Biosystematics – ForBio – invites to the course ”Introduction to Bioinformatics for Biosystematics”.

Basic programming skills are becoming essential for handling large datasets and performing complex analyses in biosystematics. This course aims to provide the students with tools to solve practical problems often encountered in biosystematic research. Course topics include Python, R, and SQL. An introduction is arranged September 14-15 for participants without previous experience of GNU/Linux and Bash.

Place and time: Natural History Museum, Oslo, Norway; September 15-19, 2014.

GNU/Linux and Bash introduction September 13-14, 2014.

Application deadline is August 8, 2014.

More information about the course and how to apply can be found at www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2014/bioinfointro2014.html

The course is arranged by the Research school in biosystematics – ForBio. There is no course fee, and PhD students/postdocs registered at Nordic universities can become ForBio members and will then have travel accommodation costs covered. For information about ForBio and membership etc, please see www.forbio.uio.no/membership/

Welcome!
ForBio/Magnus

Dear all,

We are happy to invite you to our first-time-ever course on biodiversity informatics and data management.

When: 29 July -1 August 2014

Where: Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, University of Helsinki, Finland http://www.helsinki.fi/kilpis/english/

What: A course for graduate students, postdocs, and researchers which explores data tools beyond MS Excel and R! What are the modern, efficient, mistake-proof ways to collect and manage field and lab data, identifiers, traits, and environmental variables? How can you store your data to easily integrate with external databases? This course covers basics of data collecting and data management but leaves out data analysis to other courses.

How much: No course fee. Nordic PhD students and postdocs are encouraged to join ForBio – the Research School in Biosystematics, since members are reimbursed for course-related travel costs and accommodation in shared rooms and food at Kilpisjärvi Station. ForBio may also support masters students registered at Nordic universities who provide compelling evidence that they need the course for their thesis work. ForBio will not cover any expenses (e.g., food, travel, or accommodation costs) for ForBio associates attending the course.

Registration deadline: June 11, 2014 – so hurry!

More info: http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2014/biodiv_informatics.html

All welcome!

Luomus/Dmitry and ForBio/Magnus

Dear all PhD-students,
Remember to apply (last day 30 June) for the 2 week PhD-course in the shift of Sept-Oct 2014 focusing on taxonomy and systematics of marine invertebrates with lectures given by experts in the field. See http://www.science.gu.se/digitalAssets/1475/1475736_taxkurs-web-and-syllabus-eng.pdf for more information. Remember since ForBio is supporting this course, travel and boarding will be reimbursed (http://www.forbio.uio.no/membership/)!!! It also means it is open for PhD-students from all Nordic countries to apply (however, students from outside the Nordic countries can not be reimbursed) – http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2014/invertetax.html
Enjoy the weather right now!
matz

Dear all,

ForBio and University of Gothenburg are pleased to invite you to the course: ”Species Tree Phylogenetics” taking place at Kristineberg Marine Research Station, Sweden, October 20-24, 2014.

The course will present a theoretical framework and practical approaches to species tree phylogenetics of complex and/or big data sets.

More information about the course and a preliminary program can be found at www.forbio.uio.no.

Application deadline is September 1, 2014.

Cheers,
Magnus/ForBio

Dear all,
ForBio is offering a Subarctic terrestrial field course at Kevo, Finland, on 4-11 July 2014.
This taxonomy field course in northern subarctic Finland will provide PhD students and postdocs in biosystematics with field experience and species identification skills.†We will have parallel groups working on lichens, bryophytes, vascular plants and insects, with daily specialist led field excursions and identification sessions. In addition to visiting biotopes in the vicinity of the Kevo Subarctic Research Institute, we will have a day trip to the Norwegian coast.
For more information and how to apply, see http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2014/subarctic_field_course.html or contact Aino Hosia aino.hosia@um.uib.no.
Please note that the application deadline is already on 12 May 2014!
Welcome!

Kurs i fylogenomik, 5-9 Maj (2014), i Lund. Anmälan senast 21:a Mars. Inriktar sig till studenter med ”ingen eller begränsad erfarenhet i ämnet”. Lärare: Michel Cummings, Univ. Maryland. Se hemsidan: http://www.geneco.se/Courses/Spring-2014/Phylogenomics-5-9-May-2014

Phylogenomics course in Lund, May 5-9 (2014). Registration deadline: 21 March. Target audience: students having ”no or little prior experience in the field”. Teacher: Michael Cummings, Univ. Maryland. See web page: http://www.geneco.se/Courses/Spring-2014/Phylogenomics-5-9-May-2014

Dear all,

ForBio is organizing a workshop ”Bayesian inference using BEAST”.  The workshop will take place May 26-30, 2014 at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo. The workshop aims to help those that have some experience of Bayesian model based phylogenetics and have worked through the BEAST tutorials and run a bit of analyses and start to wonder about what’s going on “under the hood”.

More information about the workshop and how to register can be found at http://www.forbio.uio.no/

Welcome!

ForBio/Magnus

Dear all,

ForBio is organizing the course ’An introduction to geometric morphometrics using R’ in Tromsø (Skibotn Field Station, May 5-9, 2014). Geometric morphometrics is a great technique used extensively in analyses of organisms’ shape and function across all systematic groups from a full organisms to its smallest parts and color patterns.  We assembled a great team of instructors and it is going to be a very interesting course.  The deadline for registration is 16 March 2014.  Please read more about the course on ForBio website: http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2014/zoomorphometrics.html

Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions,
Sergei V. Drovetski
Researcher and ForBio coordinator
Department of Natural History, Tromsø University Museum,
University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway,
PO Box 6050 Langnes, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway

e-mail: sdrovetski@gmail.com
Telephone: +47 77620779

Kostnadsfri föreläsning och workshop i ämnet artbestämning

Svenska artprojektet och ArtDatabanken erbjuder studerande inom området marinbiologi att delta på föreläsning och workshop i artbestämning med Malin Strand som föreläsare.

Föreläsningen och workshopen kommer att fokusera på att bidra till kunskapsutvecklingen genom att ge studenterna färdigheter i att artbestämma Tagghudingar–svalgsträngsdjur, Echinodermata–Hemichordata.

ArtDatabanken vid Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet driver sedan 2002 Svenska artprojektet på uppdrag av riksdagen. Syftet är att kartlägga och sprida information om landets hela fauna och flora av flercelliga arter.

Projektet består av tre delar: inventering av dåligt kända arter, taxonomisk forskning och kunskapsspridning genom bokverket Nationalnyckeln. Med hjälp av Nationalnyckeln kan fler artbestämma mindre välkända organismgrupper. Nationalnyckelns senaste volym beskriver sjöstjärnor, sjögurkor, sjöborrar, liljestjärnor och ormstjärnor samt ollonmaskar och innehåller nycklar för artbestämning. Läs mer på www.nationalnyckeln.se.

De som vill bidra kan vara med och rapportera sina artfynd på Artportalen. Genom att många bidrar till att samla in kunskap kan vi gemensamt göra stor nytta för naturen. Naturvården får på så sätt stöd i sitt arbete med till exempel miljöövervakning och uppföljning av miljömål.

Datum: februari – april 2014

Kursalternativ: Kort föreläsning 1,5 timme. Längre föreläsning 3 timmar.

Pris: Föreläsningen är kostnadsfri, dock bistår universitetet/skolan med lokal.

Bok gratis: alla deltagare får utan kostnad Nationalnyckelns senaste bok om tagghudingar–svalgsträngsdjur, Echinodermata–Hemichordata.

För bokning och annan praktisk information kontakta Anette Håkans, telefon: 0722 – 033 918. E-post: anette.hakans@slu.se.

För mer information om föreläsningens och workshopens innehåll och upplägg, kontakta Malin Strand, telefon: 070 – 565 42 46. E-post: malin.strand@slu.se.

Med vänlig hälsning

Anette Håkans

ArtDatabanken