NVTB Activities newsletter.
Topics:

* Symposium on theoretical and experimental immunology, followed
by the PhD defense of Tendai Mugwagwa, 16 Mar, Utrecht.

* Seminar on inferring genetic evolution and population structure
in recombinogenic organisms, 9 April, Utrecht

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On 16 March 2010 there will be a symposium on various topics in
theoretical and experimental immunology followed by the PhD defense
of Tendai Mugwagwa.

Venue:_ The Kanunnikenzaal _ Address:_ Achter de Dom 7a, Utrecht._
10.15hrs: Tea and Coffee
10.45hrs: Tendai Mugwagwa (Utrecht University,The Netherlands)
"Quantification of T cell dynamics in health and disease:
Mathematical modeling of experimental data"
11.30hrs: Jorge Carneiro (Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal)
"How to tame a transposon: lessons from a stochastic Petri
net model of V (D) J recombination."
12.15hrs: Lunch break
13.15hrs: Robin Callard (University college London, UK)
"Naive T cell homeostasis and response to lymphopenia"
14.00hrs: Derek Macallan (St George's University of London, UK)
"Thanks for the memories (Apologies to Frank Sinatra...)"
14.45hrs: Tea and Coffee
16.15hrs: PhD defense of Tendai Mugwagwa
Venue: Senaatszaal, Academiegebouw Domplein 29, Utrecht

Funded by TBB and NVTB

Regards
Tendai Mugwagwa


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Dear collegues,

Together with the Infection and Immunity Center Utrecht the Utrecht
Centre for Infection Dynamics (UCID) organizes on April the 9th (8.30-12.00)
a minisymposium on the population genetics of microparasites, followed by
a workshop on Bayesian-based algorithms to infer population structures
(13.00-16.00).

8.30 - 8.45
Opening and introduction: Rob Willems (UMCU)

8.45 - 9.30
Bill Hanage
Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College, London
Identifying populations of interest in highly
recombinogenic bacteria (and clonal ones too)

9.30 - 10.15
Jukka Corander
Department of Mathematics, University of Helsinki, Finland
Using BAPS to decipher evolution of bacterial populations

10.15 - 10. 30
Coffee break

10.30 - 11.15
Leo Schouls
Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public
Health and the Environment, Bilthoven
Multiple-Locus Variable number tandem repeats
Analysis; a tool to study bacterial populations structures
and perform molecular epidemiology

11.15 - 12.00
Speaker to be announced
Population genetics of Influenza virus

12.00 - 13.00
Lunch

13.00 - 16.00
Workshop Bayesian Analysis of Population Structures
Supervised by Jukka Corander

Please register before April 2nd for the lunch and workshop by sending an email to
Mirjam Kretzschmar or Rob Willems (see below). The workshop will only be held when a
minimum number of 10 persons have registered. Bring your own laptop for the
workshop, software will be provided/downloaded.

For more information concerning this minisymposium contact Mirjam Kretzschmar
(M.E.E.Kretzschmar@umcutrecht.nl or Mirjam.kretzschmar@rivm.nl ) or Rob Willems
(r.willems@umcutrecht.nl , phone (+318875)57630).

See attachment.