Access to marine models

ASSEMBLE is an EU FP7 research infrastructure initiative comprising a network of marine research stations. ASSEMBLE provides free of charge access to marine infrastructure, marine ecosystems and marine models (shipments) for European (member and associated states) research groups.

Calls for applications twice a year (deadlines Feb 15 and Sep 15).

All details at www.assemblemarine.org or contact project manager Ulrika Hjelm ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

News & Events

INFRA-2010-1.1.12: Large-scale bio-banks for clinical and epidemiological studies (“The I3 call”)

BBMRI has submitted a new proposal for an FP7 “I3”call “Data Integration and Access Logistics for the Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (DIAL-BBMRI) collaborative networking” on December 3, 2009. If successful, DIAL-BBMRI should provide partial funding for the construction phase of BBMRI (development of biobanking research infrastructure across the Europe to ensure high quality and clinical annotation of biological samples, and their accessibility to the user community).

Our aim is to update the originally submitted research plan so that anyone interested can follow our progress.

Click here to download the proposal.

“BBMRI - Biobanking for Science”

September 23-25, 2010 in Amsterdam, NL

Several sessions with following themes:

- New developments and emerging technologies in the field of biobanking

- Bioinformatics and data mining
- IT related data protection
- Examples of success stories

More information soon to be featured at www.bbmri.eu

Organising Committee: BBMRI Steering Committee and Executive Management Team from

Leiden University Medical Center, Medical University of Graz & University of Turku

International Data Sharing Conference 2010
on September 20-22, 2010 in St Hugh's College, Oxford

Applications are invited join the International Data Sharing Conference 2010 (September 20 - 22, St Hugh's College, Oxford) as a panel member. Panels will be formed around key questions below, or around related areas of panellist interest:

1. What are the justifications for data sharing policies and how are decisions to share made?
2. Can we make genomic information anonymous?
3. What are the risks to privacy of data sharing and what IT security can we put in place?
4. Should we feedback results to individuals?
5. What new mechanisms should be developed to reward data generators for producing data for the research community?
6. What are the privacy risks for participants and what IT mechanisms can we use to protect them?
7. What are the issues for researchers in less-resourced countries?
8. How do we organise internal governance systems for research projects that seek to share data across borders?
9. Can our national governance systems cope with global data sharing?
10. Is data sharing incompatible with commercialisation?
11. Can ‘open source’ models be used for the translation of research results?

Panels will consist of three speakers who will each present for a maximum of 10 minutes before debate and questions are opened to the floor. The aim is that panellists will interact with each others' arguments and will be encourage to be in contact before the event.

For more information on the conference, and to apply online for a place on a panel, please see: http://helex.medsci.ox.ac.uk/data-sharing-international-conference-1/data-sharing-international-conference.

The deadline for panellist applications is 1 April 2010.

“BBMRI ANR INSERM - From Biobanks to Expert Centres” Docs

December 16^th, 2009 in Paris, FR

Networking of the biobanking projects in FP7 program
Dr. Patrick Kolar (Genomics and system biology unit, Directorate general for research, European commission)
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Expert Centres
Prof. Kurt Zatloukal (Deputy Director,Med Univ. Graz, coordinator of the pan European project BBMRI)
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Experience and unmet needs of industry partners
Prof. David R. Cox, M.D., Ph.D. (Chief scientific officer, Pfizer, USA)
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Prof. Klaus Lindpaintner, M.D., Ph.D (Vice president and director Roche Genetics, Hoffman Laroche Basel)
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Dr. Carine Malcus Vocanson (Director of Europe clinical affairs, Biomérieux, Lyon)
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Dr. Paul von Hoegen (Euraccine Consulting Group, Brussels)
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Experience and unmet needs of academic partners
Prof. Paul Hofman (Louis Pasteur Hospital, CHU Nice, France)
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Prof. José-Alain Sahel (Director Institut de la vision, Paris)
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Prof.Thomas Meitinger, M.D., Ph.D. (Helmholtz Zentrum München)
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Scientific and technical expertise required for the future
Dr. Ola Söderberg (Associate professor Rudbeck lab, Uppsala)
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Dr. Hans Lehrach (Director, Max Planck Institut for genomics, Berlin)
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Dr. Ivano Bertini (Director of the Magnetic resonance Centre, University of Florence)
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Dr. Ivo Gut (Deputy Director, Centre National de Génotypage, Evry)
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Data knowledge management
Dr. Maria Krestyaninova (Medical informatics coordinator, European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL)
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