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Cloned Livestock Gain a Foothold in Europe

The Continent has generally resisted genetically modified food, but small amounts of meat and dairy from cloned animals are already being consumed.

From the NYTimes News-2010-7-30:8:5:1

Alberta ponders paying for new MS treatment

Alberta Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky is putting together a committee to look at whether to pay for studies of a controversial experimental treatment for people with multiple sclerosis.

From the CBC News-2010-7-29:20:6:3

Scientists Produce First Cloned Fighting Bull

The team says that its dark brown calf, named Got, is the only representative of a lineage that goes back 300 years.

From the NYTimes News-2010-7-29:20:6:2

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A double special issue of "Theory in Biosciences" is available entitled "Darwin evaluated by contemporary evolutionary and philosophical theories" (2010.7.15)

Call for submissions to Philosophy & Theory in Biology to Trends and Crosstalk.(2010.6.29).

Call for Microbiome Studies at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. (2010.6.15)

Origin of the Flora in the Mediterranean Basin. Call for Papers. (2010.6.10)

Evolution since Darwin: The First 150 Years by M.A.Bell et al. Sinauer. (2010-6-7).

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Jul 30 12:00	Disulfide bond acquisition through eukaryotic protein evolution - Jason W. H. Wong, Simon Y. W. Ho, Philip J. Hogg (MBE)
Jul 30 12:00	A Genomic Portrait of Human Microsatellite Variation - Bret A. Payseur, Peicheng Jing, Ryan J. Haasl (MBE)
Jul 30 12:00	High rate of large-scale hemizygous deletions in asexually propagating Daphnia: implications for the evolution of sex - Sen Xu, Angela R. Omilian, Melania E. Cristescu (MBE)
Jul 30 08:00	The Role of the Formamide/Zirconia System in the Synthesis of Nucleobases and Biogenic Carboxylic Acid Derivatives - Raffaele Saladino et al. (JME)
Jul 29 16:00	Approximating Model Probabilities in Bayesian Information Criterion and Decision-Theoretic Approaches to Model Selection in Phylogenetics - Jason Evans and Jack Sullivan (MBE)
Jul 29 12:00	Whole genome expression plasticity across tropical and temperate Drosophila melanogaster populations from eastern Australia - Mia T. Levine, Melissa Eckert, David J. Begun (MBE)
Jul 29 12:00	Impact of indels on the flanking regions in structural domains - Zheng Zhang, Jie Huang, Zengfang Wang, Lushan Wang, Peiji Gao (MBE)
Jul 29 08:00	Evolutionary History and Functional Diversification of Phosphomannomutase Genes - Rita Quental, Ana Moleirinho, Luísa Azevedo, António Amorim (JME)
Jul 28 12:00	What Is a Microsatellite: A Computational and Experimental Definition Based upon Repeat Mutational Behavior at A/T and GT/AC Repeats - Yogeshwar D. Kelkar et al. (GBE)
Jul 28 08:00	Nuclear-mitochondrial sequences as witnesses of past interbreeding and population diversity in the jumping bristletail Mesomachilis - Laura Baldo, Alan de Queiroz, Marshal Hedin, Cheryl Y. Hayashi, John Gatesy (MBE)

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The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis  
(NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its "Fast, Free  
Phylogenies: HPC for Phylogenetics Tutorial" to be held Oct. 13-15,  
2010, at NIMBioS.

Objectives: This tutorial focuses on how to use TeraGrid, the CIPRES  
Portal, the iPlant Discovery environment, university clusters, and  
other typically free HPC resources for phylogenetic analysis. The  
tutorial is geared primarily toward biologists (including students,  
postdocs and faculty) who are at least moderately experienced with  
phylogenetic analysis and who have datasets to run but who are  
typically running analyses on their own desktops, though other  
researchers, such as statisticians or mathematicians working in  
phylogenetics, are encouraged to apply. Learning can be enhanced for  
people applying as a team (such as a pairing of a biologist and a  
statistician who collaborate in their work). Accepted students will  
have the option of receiving instruction in basic unix usage via  
webinar and self-paced online resources before the actual workshop, so  
lack of experience in this area should not be a barrier. Instructors  
and/or organizers include Eric Carr (NIMBioS); Jim Ferguson (National  
Institute for Computational Sciences, Univ. of Tennessee/Oak Ridge  
National Laboratory); Susan Holmes (Stanford Univ.); Brian O'Meara  
(Univ. Tennessee); Alexis Stamakatis (Technical Univ. of Munich); Dan  
Stanzione (Texas Advanced Computing Center/iPlant); and Bob Thomson  
(Univ. California Davis). Tuition is covered by NIMBioS and applicants  
may also request travel and lodging support.

Location: NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Co-sponsors: NIMBioS, iPlant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

For more information about the tutorial and a link to the online  
application form, go to http://nimbios.org/tutorials/TT_hpc2010

Participation is limited, and those selected to attend will be  
notified within two weeks of the application deadline. Application  
deadline: August 27, 2010

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis  
(NIMBioS) brings together researchers from around the world to  
collaborate across disciplinary boundaries to investigate solutions to  
basic and applied problems in the life sciences. NIMBioS is sponsored  
by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Homeland  
Security, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture with additional  
support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Brian O'Meara
http://www.brianomeara.info
Assistant Prof.
Dept. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
U. of Tennessee, Knoxville

omeara.brian@gmail.com

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