In May we will have the following Ensembl events:

3-4 May: Ensembl module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US
6 May: Demo for the National Genetics Reference Lab, Manchester, UK
10 May: Browser workshop at the 3rd Variome Project Meeting, Paris, France
10-12 May: Ensembl module in the Wellcome Trust Open Door Workshop – Working with the Human Genome Sequence in Hinxton, UK
11 May: Ensembl Genomes module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at the Scottish Bioinformatics Forum, Edinburgh, UK
17 May: Browser workshop at the Human Genome Meeting 2010, Montpellier, France
18-20 May: Ensembl module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at the CSC – IT Center for Science, Helsinki, Finland
18-20 May: Ensembl Genomes module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at the CSC – IT Center for Science, Helsinki, Finland
27-28 May: Browser workshop at the University of Cambridge, UK

For details about these and other upcoming events, please have a look at the complete list of Ensembl training events.

When we show during workshops a map of the world with the places that have been visited by the Ensembl Outreach team, people are often surprised that we never have been to Australia yet. Well, coming month this is going to change as two of my colleagues will travel to Down Under for a whole series of workshops:

12 Apr: Browser workshop at the University of Melbourne
15-16 Apr: Browser workshop at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide
21-22 Apr: Browser module in the PANDA workshop at the University of New South Wales, Sydney
23 Apr: Developers workshop at the University of New South Wales, Sydney
27-28 Apr: Browser module in the PANDA workshop at the University of Queensland / Griffith University, Brisbane
29 Apr: Developers workshop at the University of Queensland / Griffith University, Brisbane
29-30 Apr: Browser workshop at the Australian National University, Canberra

Aside from that there are many more Ensembl events in other parts of the world this month:

7-9 Apr: Browser module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy
15-16 Apr: Browser workshop at the Erasmus MC Molecular Medicine Postgraduate School, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
19 Apr: Browser workshop at the VIB Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology, Leuven, Belgium
20 Apr: Browser workshop at the VIB Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology, Ghent, Belgium
20-21 Apr: Browser module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, US *postponed to 3,4 May*
21 Apr: Developers workshop at the Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
22-23 Apr: Browser module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US *postponed to 3,4 May*
26-27 Apr: Browser module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, US
28-30 Apr: Developers workshop at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
29-30 Apr: Browser module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, US

For details about these and other upcoming events, please have a look at the complete list of Ensembl training events.

The Ensembl Outreach team is pleased to offer a 1-day Ensembl browser workshop as a satellite to the European Human Genetics Conference 2010 that is held from 12-15 June in Gothenburg, Sweden. The workshop will be held on Friday 11 June at Gothenburg University and is free of charge for conference participants. Places are limited to 30 participants. More details can be found here.

In March we will have the following Ensembl events:

1-2 Mar: Ensembl module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at ITSEM, Mexico City, Mexico
3-5 Mar: Ensembl module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
4 Mar: Ensembl demo at the EBI Open Day in Hinxton, UK
8-12 Mar: Ensembl module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at CIBNOR, La Paz, Baja California, Mexico
9-12 Mar: Ensembl module in the Wellcome Trust Open Door Workshop – Working with the Human Genome Sequence at the Instituto de Higiene, Montevideo, Uruguay

For details about these and other upcoming events, please have a look at the complete list of Ensembl training events.

From Wednesday April 28th till Friday April 30th 2010 we will give another Ensembl Developers workshop at the Genetics Department of the University of Cambridge in the UK. This 3-day workshop will cover the Ensembl Core API as well as two other APIs, which will be chosen from the Compara, Variation and Functional Genomics APIs, depending on the majority interest of the participants. For the workshop some experience with coding in Perl is required. There are no costs for the workshop (and organiser David Judge will even provide lots of free coffee, tea, orange juice, water, cookies, fruit etc. to keep you going ….).

To register for this workshop, please go here.

If you have any questions about the workshop you can mail me.

In February we will have the following Ensembl events:

3-4 Feb: Ensembl module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
11 Feb: Browser workshop for the NHS at Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
11-12 Feb: Browser workshop at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
16-18 Feb: Ensembl module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at the Jozef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
22-26 Feb: Ensembl API module in the Hands-on training at EBI – Programmatic Access To Biological Databases (Perl), Hinxton, UK

For details about these and other upcoming events, please have a look at the complete list of Ensembl training events.

For the beginning of the new year we have the following Ensembl events lined up:

9-13 Jan: Ensembl & Ensembl Genomes demo at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference XVIII, San Diego, CA, US
19-20 Jan: Ensembl module in the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow at City of Hope, Duarte, CA, US
25-27 Jan: Ensembl module in the EBI Tools for Genomics and Proteomics workshop at the Moroccan Society of Bioinformatics, Tangier, Morocco
28 Jan: Browser workshop at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

For details about these and other upcoming events, please have a look at the complete list of Ensembl training events.

After two extremely busy months things are getting quieter again on the Ensembl training front. For December we have the following events scheduled:

3 Dec: Browser workshop for Master’s students at University College London, London, UK
9 Dec: Browser workshop at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK

For details about these and other upcoming events, please have a look at the complete list of Ensembl training events.

October was quite a busy month for the Ensembl Outreach team, but November is even busier:

2 Nov: Developers workshop at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
4-10 Nov: Ensembl module in the Computational & Comparative Genomics course, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, US
5-6 Nov: Ensembl Genomes module in the EBI Roadshow at the University of Szeged, Hungary
9 Nov: Browser workshop at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
10 Nov: Browser workshop at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
12-13 Nov: Browser workshop at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
12 Nov: Browser workshop at the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, US
13 Nov: Browser workshop at the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, US
13 Nov: Presentation at the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, US
16 Nov: Browser workshop at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US
17-18 Nov: Ensembl module in The Genome Access Course, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, US
18 Nov: Presentation for EBI/EMBL Ph.D. students, Hinxton, UK
24 Nov: Browser workshop at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Madrid, Spain
26-27 Nov: Developers workshop at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Lausanne, Switzerland
26 Nov: Browser workshop at the Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
28 Nov: Browser workshop at CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate, Naples, Italy
30 Nov – 1 Dec: Ensembl module in the Wellcome Trust Open Door Workshop – Working with the Human Genome Sequence, Hinxton, UK
30 Nov – 2 Dec: Developers workshop at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

For details about these and other upcoming events, please have a look at the complete list of Ensembl training events.

The Summer holiday time is almost over, so the Ensembl trainers are getting up to speed again in preparation for Autumn, which will be the busiest time of year for them.

The coming month we will have the following Ensembl events:

7 Sep: Demo for the National Genetics Reference Lab, Manchester, UK
7-10 Sep: Ensembl module in the EBI roadshow at the University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
16-17 Sep: Browser workshop at the Erasmus MC Molecular Medicine Postgraduate School, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

For details about these and other upcoming events, please have a look at the complete list of Ensembl training events.

Do you want to attend an Ensembl workshop, but are we never coming to your part of the world? Why not see if you can host a workshop at your own university / institute? For more information have a look here or mail us.

If you are in the Western US, we also may still be able to include your university / institute in our Western US tour coming January. Interested? Please mail us for more details.