Acknowledgements

Advanced Course on Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis June 30 - July 12, 2008 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil Organizers/Contact: Course web page: Alberto M.R. Davila, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio, Brazil; Edmundo Grisard, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil; Hugo Naya, Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay; Fredj Tekaia, Institut Pasteur Paris, France.

Financial support CNPq/QUADTRYP/FINEP

We would like to thank the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianopolis for hosting this course and particularly: Dr. Maria Lucia de Barros Camargo - UFSC Vice- Chancellor of Post-Graduation.

We are grateful to all the colleagues and administrative staff who devoted much of their time to efficiently help setting this course. We acknowledge the following colleagues:

From the Institut Pasteur Paris ( -Direction des affaires internationales Yves Charpak, Roberto Bruzzone, Eliane Cöeffier; -Service Missions Michèle Leclerc, Murielle Dupuis; -Gestion du Budget Marie-Pierre Gratius; -Secretariat Martine Rambaud.

From EMBO ( (Courses & Workshops/World Activities) Maria Barbosa, Programme Manager; Anne Seller, Administrator; Lynne Turnbull, on line-Helpdesk Administrator.

We are grateful to all the colleagues who accepted our invitations for devoting much of their time and efforts to participate in this course:

Sonia Abdelhak (Institut Pasteur Tunis; Tunisia); Mario Dantas (UFSC, Florianopolis; Brazil); Alberto Davila (FIOCRUZ, Rio; Brazil); Antonio Basilio de Miranda (FIOCRUZ, Rio; Brazil); Bas Dutilh (CMBI, Nijmegen; Holland); André Goffeau (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la- Neuve; Belgium); Gustavo Goldman (Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brazil); Leo Goostadt (University of Oxford; UK); Edmundo Grisard (UFSC, Florianopolis; Brazil);

Grégory Nuel (University Paris-Descartes; France); Christian Probst (ICC/FIOCRUZ, Curitiba; Brazil); Joao Setubal (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; USA); Fredj Tekaia (Institut Pasteur Paris; France); Julie Thompson (IGBMC, Strasbourg; France);

DVD: Bibliography Fundamental recent references in Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis. Subdivided into items: Methods; Genomes; Comparative Genomics; Duplication; Evolution; Orthologs; Phylogeny; Selection; Tree of Life; …; Courses and conference presentations. Thanks to: Hugo Naya and Natalia Rego (Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay) The DVD includes:

We would like to acknowledge the monitors: Glauber Wagner, MSc - UFSC; Guilherme Arthur Geronimo, UFSC; Juliano de Carvalho Cury, UFSC; for their efficient help during the course.

Submission Institut Pasteur Paris : July 10, 2007; Submission EMBO : July 10, 2007; CNPq application: July, 2007; Course Announcement : January, 2007; Application deadline: March 31, 2008; Candidate evaluation and selection (20) : April 10, 2008; Course starting : June, 30, 2008; Course evaluation (mandatory) : July 12, 2008; Course and financial reports : August 30, Milestones of the course organization

Applicants (89)/Countries (19)/Gender Total applications:Selected (20)/Countries (7): 13 F / 7 M 45 F / 44M 64: ~ Biol 25: ~ Bioinf 14: ~ Biol 06: ~ Bioinf (30.2; 5.3;23; 45) (31.6; 7.3; 22; 49) (30.2; 3.8; 24; 39) (34.4; 6.8; 23; 45) FemaleMaleFemaleMale Age: -> 150 s Travel grants: 2 students 10 supplementary students from FIOCRUZ: 6F / 4M have regularly attended the course.