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Vereniging voor Biofysica en Biomedische Technologie

E-mail Newsletter April 27, 2004


In this issue:

  1. Vacature PhD student Groningen
  2. 12TH WORLD CONGRESS ON HEART DISEASE VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA, JULY 16-19,
    2005
  3. Belgian Biophysical Society meeting, Luik, 27 augustus 2004
  4. Vacature promovendus Rotterdam
  5. Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, September 2-4, 2004
  6. EMBS (Co-) Sponsored Conferences & Summer Schools
  7. Vergadering Werkgemeenschap Auditief Systeem donderdag 13 mei 2004
  8. Conference BioMech 2004 August 23-25, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii
  9. 2nd Intl Conf on Advances in Medical Signal Processing and Information Processing, 5-8 September 2004, Malta GC

1. PhD student in medical mathematics

The graduate school for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN), the department of Neurology of Groningen University and the University Hospital Groningen, the Netherlands, currently have an opening for a PhD student who will conduct research on new methodological developments for analysis of multi-channel EEG/EP measurements. The objective is to eventually improve the clinical applicability of the neurophysiological tests (ERP, P300, SEP,
VEP, EEG/EMG, EEG/EMG during fMRI) that can be performed during the diagnostic workup of neurological diseases.

We are looking for candidates who have completed a masters in Biomedical Engineering or a comparable masters (e.g. Life Sciences) and have a thorough mathematical background. A masters in applied mathematics with a clear interest in medical applications is also a possibility. The relevant mathematical fields are signal analysis, linear algebra, linear analysis and
numeral mathematics.

The PhD student will be based at the BCN Neuroimaging Center, an interdisciplinary center for neuroimaging that has facilities for both MRI and EEG. Part of the time will be spent at the department of Clinical Neurophysiology at the Groningen University Hospital. Candidates have written an excellent master's thesis, preferably on a theme related to the current project. Some research experience is considered advantageous. Further relevant qualifications are a structured approach to scientific questions, a broad interest and an open mind, communicative and cooperative skills and the ability to prioritize.

Conditions of employment
The position is offered for a four-year period. Salary is according to university standards, Euro 1702,00 gross per month in the first year to Euro 2283,00 gross per month in the fourth year.
After the first year, there will be an assessment of the candidate's results and the project's progress. Part of that is that the PhD student will have to defend his/her research proposal. Based on this, it will be decided whether a project will be continued.

Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
Dr N.M. Maurits, +31 50 361 2411, n.m.maurits@neuro.azg.nl

Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following
links:
About the graduate school www.rug.nl/bcn
About the University of Groningen www.rug.nl
About the University Hospital Groningen www.azg.nl

You can apply for this job before 26-5-2004 by sending your application to:

The University of Groningen
Personnel & Organisation Department
P.O. Box 72
9700 AB Groningen
The Netherlands
E-mail address: vmp@bureau.rug.nl

When applying for this job always mention the vacancy number AT204087.


2. INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF CARDIOLOGY
12TH WORLD CONGRESS ON HEART DISEASE - NEW TRENDS IN RESEARCH, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT, VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA, JULY 16-19, 2005

www.CardiologyOnline.com

3. Belgian Biophysical Society meeting

"PROTEIN FOLDING AND STABILITY" ON FRIDAY THE 27TH OF AUGUST 2004 AT THE

UNIVERSITY OF LIEGE
AMPHITHEATRE 202, "Galerie des Arts"
DOMAINE UNIVERSITAIRE DU SART TILMAN
BATIMENT B7b

09.45-10.00 Welcome
10.00-11.00 Christina Redfield (University of Oxford, U.K.)
"Unravelling the alpha-lactalbumin molten globule"
11.00-11.30 Salvino D'Amico (University of Liège, Belgium): "Activity-stability relationships in extremophilic enzymes"
11.30-12.30 COFFEE BREAK
12.30-14.00 LUNCH
14.00 -15.00

Joost Schymkowitz (V.U.Brussels, Belgium): "Prediction of protein stability, folding and aggregation using the emperical force fields FOLDX and TANGO"

15.00-16.00 Harmen de Jongh (Wageningen Centre for Food Sciences, the Netherlands): "Dealing with protein functionality; from life science to (food)
applications"
16.00

RECEPTION

Contact: Dr André Matagne (amatagne@ulg.ac.be). Registration is required. Admission is free for members; non-members of the Biophysical Society (http://www.chem.kuleuven.ac.be/research/bio/bbs_en.html) should pay their membership (10 Eur to be paid to the account 000-0146336-60 of the Belgian Biophysical Society, P/A Yves Engelborghs, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven).

4. Rotterdam Promovendus Fulltime
Het Erasmus MC is het meest veelzijdige universitair medisch centrum van Nederland. Waar onderzoek, onderwijs en patiëntenzorg zijn samengebracht. Waar gewerkt wordt in de geest van samen denken en vooral: samen doen. Met de ambities die bij het Erasmus MC passen. Beter worden.

Het onderzoek
In het STW gesubsideerde onderzoeksproject dat binnenkort van start gaat, zal een op Ramanspectroscopie gebaseerde methode voor identificatie van micro-organismen worden ontwikkeld, alsmede toepassingen hiervan in de medische microbiologie. In het project zullen, mede in samenwerking met 2 Nederlandse bedrijven, hardware, software en meetprotocollen worden ontwikkeld, geoptimaliseerd en toegepast. Binnen het project is een vacature voor een assistent in opleiding (AIO). De AIO zal in een multidisciplinair team komen te werken op het Laboratorium voor Intensive Care Research en Optische Spectroscopie, van de afdeling Algemene Heelkunde. Binnen dit team zijn o.a. fysici, chemici, artsen en medisch microbiologen actief om op Ramanspectroscopie gebaseerde methoden en technieken te ontwikkelen voor de klinische diagnostiek.

Functie-inhoud
De AIO verdiept zich in de dagelijkse praktijk en problematiek van de microbiologische diagnostiek Hij/zij wordt intensief betrokken bij de ontwikkeling, optimalisatie en automatisering van een dedicated Raman spectroscopisch meetsysteem en van signaal-analyse-algoritmen voor snelle en accurate identificatie van micro-organismen. Het onderzoek moet leiden tot wetenschappelijke publicaties en congresvoordrachten en uitmonden in het schrijven van een proefschrift.

Functie-eisen
Voor deze functie denken wij aan een spectroscopist, met een afgeronde opleiding in de technische natuurkunde of analytische chemie. De kandidaat heeft ervaring met chemometrische methoden voor de analyse van spectroscopische data. Daarnaast is aantoonbare interesse in toegepast biomedisch onderzoek, een voorwaarde. Affiniteit met instrumentontwerp is een pré.

Arbeidsvoorwaarden
U krijgt een tijdelijke aanstelling voor 4 jaar als promovendus. Salariëring vindt plaats volgens de promovendusschaal van de CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten.

Inlichtingen
Voor inhoudelijke informatie kan contact worden opgenomen met dr. G.J. Puppels, hoofd van het laboratorium voor Intensive Care Onderzoek en Optische Spectroscopie, telefoon (010) 408 7989 of e-mail g.puppels@erasmusmc.nl, of dr. K. Maquelin, medisch microbiologisch
onderzoeker, telefoon (010) 408 7117 of e-mail k.maquelin@erasmusmc.nl. Voor informatie over de aanstelling kunt u terecht bij mevr. B. Tieman-Roos, P&O-adviseur, telefoon (010) 463 5206.

Sollicitatie
Uw brief met curriculum vitae kunt u uiterlijk 23 april a.s. richten aan Erasmus MC, afdeling Algemene Heelkunde, ter attentie van dr. K. Maquelin, Postbus 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, onder vermelding van vacaturenummer PV.AH.C0 op de brief en de envelop.

Promovendus positie binnen het Erasmus MC
U werkt binnen het Erasmus MC, maar heeft een dienstverband bij de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, waardoor arbeidsvoorwaarden van de Erasmus Universiteit op u van toepassing zijn.

5. Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2004 (BioMed 2004), which will be held on September 2-4, 2004 at Hilton Petaling
Jaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A pre-conference workshop has been scheduled on September 1, 2004. There
will be 3 half-day sessions, conducted concurrently:

- Bioinstrumentation - JG Webster (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
- Tissue Engineering - DL Bader (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
- Image Processing - M Bister (Nottingham University, Malaysia Campus)

Deadline for call of abstracts has been extended to April 30, 2004.

To keep yourself updated with the latest information on BioMed 2004, please visit the official website: http://www.um.edu.my/conf/biomed2004

Nahrizul Adib Kadri (Mr.)
BioMed 2004 Conference Director
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Tel: +603.7967.6882
Fax: +603.7967.4579

6. EMBS (Co-) Sponsored Conferences & Summer Schools


April 15-18, 2004 Spotlight on Biomedical Imaging
Arlington, VA at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel.
http://www.biomedicalimaging.org
March 17-19, 2005 2nd Annual International Special Topic Conference on Neural Engineering
Metro DC Area, Arlington, VA
Join us at the Ritz Carleton Pentagon City! See the conference website for
details: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ne2005/
June 26-30, 2004 Summer School on Medical Devices & Biosensors
Hong Kong
Registration Deadline: Thursday, 15 April 2004
http://bme.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/isss-mdbs/
June 28 -July 3 2004 Summer School on Applications of Information & Communication Technology in Biomedicine
Dubrovnik, Croatia,
Registration Deadline: Sunday, 2 May 2004
http://www.crombes.hr/ICTSS04/
July 18-23, 2004 Summer School on Biocomplexity
Hanover, N.H. USA,
Registration Deadline: Thursday, 15 April 2004
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~bioc2004/
June 20-25, 2004 Summer School on Emerging Technologies in Biomedicine,
Patras, Greece
Registration Deadline: Monday, 31 May 2004
http://bme.med.upatras.gr/patras2004/
April 5-8, 2004 The First World Congress on Men's Health Medicine
Paris, France
http://www.wabt.com.fr
April 15-16, 2004 Nanotechnology Growth Opportunities for the Biotech and Medical Device Sectors
Irvine, CA
http://www.asme.org/events/nanobio
April 17-18, 2004 30th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference
Western New England College, Springfield, MA
http://www.wnec.edu/nebc2004
April 20-24, 2004 9th International Congress on Hyperthermic Oncology, ICHO 2004
St. Louis, MO
http://www.icho2004.org
May 26-28, 2004 The Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS)
John Hopkins University, MD
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/gensips2004
June 20-24, 2004 International Conference on Electrical Bio-Impedance, V Electrial Impedance Tomography
Gdansk, Poland
http://biont.eti.pg.gda.pl
June 23-25, 2004 BIOSIGNAL 2004
Brno, Czech Republic
http://wes.feec.vutbr.cz/UBMI/bs2004.html
August 13-15, 2004 First Annual IEEE Symposium on Product Safety Engineering
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California
http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pses/symposium/

7. Programma Vergadering Werkgemeenschap Auditief Systeem
donderdag 13 mei 2004
TNO Technische Menskunde, Kampweg 5, 3769 DE Soesterberg
All Talks will be in English

10.00
Ontvangst, koffie
10.30
C. S. van der Reijden, L. H. M. Mens, A. F. M. Snik (Nijmegen): Amplitude Modulation Following Responses with high signal to noise ratios in
babies and in adults
11.00
Toineke Westen (Leiden): Understanding the non-linear relationship between electrically evoked compound action potential amplitudes and the number of excited nerve fibres.

11.30

pauze
12.00
Jay Rubinstein (Iowa City): Auditory nerve desynchronization: in search of higher fidelity prosthetic
hearing
12.30
Philip Joris (Leuven): Temporal information in the auditory nerve of macaque monkeys
13.00

Lunch

14.15
Maarten van Beurden (Amsterdam, AMC): Loudness summation as a function of signal duration
14.45
Wim Decraemer (Antwerpen): Measurement, visualization and quantitative analysis of complete three-dimensional kinematical data sets of human and cat middle ear
15.15
pauze
15.45
Egbert de Boer (Amsterdam): Cochlear mechanics, a review
16.30
einde
16.35-17.00
Vergadering van werkgroepleiders

meer info

8. The IASTED International Conference on Biomechanics - BioMech 2004
August 23-25, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii

Important Deadlines:
**Submissions Due: May 15, 2004**
Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2004
Registration Deadline: July 1, 2004

To view the Call for Papers and the International Program Committee, visit website at http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2004/hawaii/c463.htm?bio

9. 2nd Intl Conf on Advances in Medical Signal Processing and Information
Processing, 5-8 September 2004, Malta GC

Just a reminder that there is 1 week left to submit a paper for MEDSIP2004. If you do not want to submit but are interested in attending why not visit the website and leave your contact details and we will keep you up to date with events? The early registration deadline is 14th June.

Further details about the conference, the keynote speakers, the registration and paper submission process, and information on fees and deadlines can be found on the conference website at:
http://www.bierg.aston.ac.uk/medsip2004 (this is now also mirrored here:
http://81.5.185.34/medsip2004 )
Christopher James, MEDSIP2004 Conference Chair


In the previous issue, dated March 31, 2004.

  1. KNAW conferentie 'Man - Machine Interactions` van 7 t/m 9 juni 2004
  2. EMBEC'05 will take place in Prague, starting on Nov. 20, 2005.
  3. Fifth European Biophysics Congress and 15th IUPAB joint Congress in 2005
  4. Vergaderstukken van de Verenigingsraadvergadering d.d. 29 maart 2004
  5. Voorlopig programma bijeenkomst sectie Oogheelkundige Fysica op 12 mei 2004 bij TM-TNO in Soesterberg.

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