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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>On Behalf of Dr. Rod Wing:</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Center for Complex Biological Systems <a href="mailto:[mailto:ccbs@uci.edu]">[mailto:ccbs@uci.edu]</a> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 28, 2011 4:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> Center for Complex Biological Systems<br><b>Subject:</b> A National Short Course in Systems Biology - Jan 2012, UC Irvine<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Dear</span><span style='color:windowtext'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Colleagues,</span><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We are pleased to announce our second annual 3-week National Short Course in Systems Biology to be held at the University of California Irvine from January 9th to January 27th 2012.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The course emphasis will be on the systems biology of morphogenesis and spatial dynamics. These two themes are well represented by participating faculty expertise from departments affiliated with the Center for Complex Biological Systems (CCBS), the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (LFD) and the Institute for Genomics & Bioinformatics (IGB) at UC Irvine.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=427 height=640 id=fc459b5b-6359-47a5-b25e-105e439cd741 src="cid:part1.07040107.05040606@uci.edu"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The course format consists of didactic lectures covering central topics in systems biology, extensive laboratory work on biological projects to develop practical skills and in depth computational analysis/modeling of results. Consequently, we hope to attract graduate students, postdocs, faculty and industry researchers from a broad range of scientific disciplines with strong interests towards long term commitments to Systems Biology research but with little or no formal prior training. To facilitate entry into this field, we offer 1 week optional Preparatory Workshops in either foundational biological paradigms or computational/mathematical tools dependent on an individual applicant's background. The subsequent Systems Biology Core Course (2 weeks) is intended to present a high-level exploration of biological problems and questions from a systems biology perspective.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We would welcome your assistance in bringing this course notification to the attention of prospective students and researchers both within your home department and more widely at your institution. Space is limited; early registration deadline - December 2nd 2011. </span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#2454FC'>Tuition fellowships/travel awards are available - please inquire for eligibility.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Further information and application details can be found at our CCBS course website:<span class=apple-style-span> </span></span><a href="http://ccbs.bio.uci.edu/shortcourse/shortcourse.html"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://ccbs.bio.uci.edu/shortcourse/shortcourse.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sincerely,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Felix Grun, PhD</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Associate Project Scientist</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>& Academic Coordinator, CCBS</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>If you would like to be removed from this list, please reply to this email from that same address and include the word 'unsubscribe' in the subject line.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>If you have any inquiries about this short course, please send them by reply to this email.  All emails are answered in person by one of our short course administrators.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>