News
01-February-2012
InfraCoMP Workshop on IMPC Embryonic Lethal Screening: 18-19 April 2012
The InfraCoMP Workshop on IMPC Embryonic Lethal Screening will take place at ICH, University College London, London, UK , on April 18-19, 2012.
For registration, please click here.
24-January-2012
Sip1 - novel mechanism regulating pain perception
Harmful events can occasionally be life-threatening, but at least noxious for an organism. Therefore the perception of pain is an extremely important function of the body. The transduction of noxious stimuli is warranted through specialized ion channels and receptors expressed by primary nociceptive neurons. The molecular mechanisms regulating the relevant genes and ion channels for pain processing are only poorly understood so far.
Read more here.
19-December-2011
EuroMouse meeting 2012 - Joint Infrafrontier / EUMODIC Symposium
The aim of this symposium is to bring closer together the mouse genetics and the clinical and translational communities and to promote the use of mouse models in clinical and translational research.
The symposium will take place from 17-19 January, 2012 in the Hilton Munich City Hotel in central Munich, Germany.
Speaker Line-up:
- Dr. Martin Balastik, Harvard University
- Prof. Fatima Bosch, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
- Prof. Steve Brown, MRC Harwell
- Prof. James Di Santo, Institut Pasteur Paris
- Dr. Dirk Hadrich, European Commission
- Prof. Hans-Ulrich Häring, University of Tübingen
- Prof. Yann Hérault, IGBMC Strasbourg
- Prof. Martin Hrabé de Angelis, Helmholtz Zentrum München
- Prof. Fuad Iraqi, University of Tel Aviv
- Prof. George Kollias, BSRC Alexander Fleming
- Dr. Rebecca McIntyre, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Prof. Jagdeep Nanchahal, University of Oxford
- Dr. Paul Potter, MRC Harwell
- Prof. Patrik Rorsman, University of Oxford
- Prof. Nadia Rosenthal, EMBL / Imperial College London / Australian Regenerative Medicines Institute
- Prof. Klaus Schughart, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
- Prof. Glauco Tocchini-Valentini, CNR Monterotondo
- Prof. Matthias Tschoep, Helmholtz Zentrum München
- Prof. Wolfgang Wurst, Helmholtz Zentrum München
07-December-2011
Third Infrafrontier Training session on Primary Mouse Phenotyping
This training session will take place at ICS (Strasbourg) from 20 to 23rd February 2012 and is aimed at providing a theoretical and practical background knowledge destined for researchers that are willing to acquire primary expertise in mouse development. Topics will cover dissection of post-implantation embryos, histology, immunohistochemistry and confocal imaging of whole embryos. The materials and techniques required for in vitro culture of postimplantation embryos will be presented.
Please note that the course will be limited to 10 participants
For further information please contact:selloum@igbmc.fr .
For registration, please click here.
04-October-2011
InfraCoMP Kick-Off Meeting: 14-15 November 2011
The InfraCoMP Kick-Off Meeting will take place at Munich Airport Marriott Hotel, on November 14-15. Around 75 participants are expected among the InfraCoMP European partners and the InfraCOMP International Steering Committee members (IMPC partners).
01-October-2011
InfraCoMP Grant Agreement signed
The InfraCoMP Grant agreement has been signed between the European Commission and the nine European InfraCoMP partners. InfraCoMP provides a coordination mechanism between Infrafrontier and the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC). Over the next three years the partners will develop common strategies and approaches to mouse phenotyping, mouse production, cryopreservation and distribution, access to phenotyping data and community engagement.
The InfraCoMP consortium is coordinated by HMGU (Germany) and has as partners CERBM-ICS (France), MRC-Harwell and Sanger (UK), TCP (Canada), CNR (Italy), UAB (Spain), IMG (Czech Republic) and EMBL-EBI. The non-European IMPC partners are involved as members of the InfraCoMP International Steering Committee.
27-July-11
InfraCoMP strengthens the coordination between Infrafrontier and IMPC
InfraCoMP, a new EC-funded project, will provide a coordination mechanism between Infrafrontier and the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC). The project will deliver common strategies and approaches to mouse phenotyping, mouse production, cryopreservation and distribution, access to phenotyping data and community engagement. The project will start in October 2011 and will run for three years.
The InfraCoMP consortium will be coordinated by HMGU (Germany) and will have as partners CERBM-ICS (France), MRC-Harwell and Sanger (UK), TCP (Canada), CNR (Italy), UAB (Spain), IMG (Czech Republic) and EMBL-EBI. The non-European IMPC partners will be involved as members of the InfraCoMP International Steering Committee.
26-July-11
Infrafrontier participation in BioMedBridges
Infrafrontier is pleased to announce its participation in the BioMedBridges, an EC-funded project.
BioMedBridges, a consortium formed by 21 partners, is aimed at implementing a common e-infrastructure for the ESFRI BMS research infrastructures to allow interoperability of data and services. More specifically, this project will deliver solutions for data harmonisation, technical integration of services and secure access to data and specific use cases will be developed around these topics.
Infrafrontier will lead the specific use case 'Phenobridge: crossing the species bridge between mouse and human'.
03-May-11
Infrafrontier Annual Meeting 2011, July 4-5
The Infrafrontier Annual Meeting 2011 will be held in Rome, Italy, at the Grand Hotel de la Minerve, on July 4-5.
For registration, please click here.
03-May-11
Hearing in the European Parliament - Biological and Medical Sciences Research Infrastructures at the heart of the Innovation Union
The role of Biological and Medical Sciences Research Infrastructures (BMS RI) in the Innovation Union Flagship Initiative will be presented at a public hearing in the European Parliament, taking place on May 5, 2011.
The event will be opened by MEP Gianni Pitella and MEP Antonio Correia de Campos and a keynote address of the EC's Directorate-General Research and Innovation. The ensuing panel discussion will bring together representatives of the ESFRI BMS research infrastructure providers and users, the European Member State research ministries and the European Commission. A detailed agenda can be found here.
For background information see also the BMS RI Strategy Paper.
24-March-11
French Infrafrontier Partners win 27 Mio €
The French Ministry for Higher Education and Research has granted 27 Mio € to the French Infrafrontier Partners for the construction of a research infrastructure for the production, systemic phenotyping, archiving and distribution of mouse models for human diseases.
The PHENOMIN consortium formed by the French Infrafrontier partners CERBM-GIE, CIPHE, TAAM
and supported by the CNRS, INSERM, the University of Marseille and the University of Strasbourg is one of eleven projects to benefit from a 260 Mio € funding program for research infrastructures and demonstrator projects in the life sciences.
15-March-11
1-year extension of Infrafrontier Project
The EC has signed the extension of Infrafrontier Project until end of February 2011.
These additional 12 months will allow the Infrafrontier Consortium to keep up the momentum for the implementation of the pan-European Infrafrontier Research Infrastructure.
An Inter-Ministry Working Group lead by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is currently preparing the legal documents for setting up the legal entity for Infrafrontier.
