***** NOTEM O DIA E HORARIO NAO USUAIS ************* ***** TERCA, 10:30 ********************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seminario do Grupo de Logica, Inteligencia Artificial e Metodos Formais - LIAMF Seminario Registrado na CPG do IME/USP Pagina: http://www.ime.usp.br/~liamf/seminarios/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Titulo: e-Infrastructure for Biomedical research: activities at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam Palestrante: Silvia Delgado Olabarriaga (AMC, Holanda) Data: 24/8/2010 (terca), 10:30hs Local: a ser anunciada Resumo: The amount and complexity of biomedical data available for research and healthcare are assuming dramatic proportions as a consequence of advances in data acquisition techniques. Not only a vast amount and variety of data can be acquired about living organisms, but also the throughput and resolution (spatial, spectral, time, etc.) are ever growing. Moreover, a wealth of information about life style, disease history and clinical parameters is also available in hospital databases and (electronic) patient files. This radical increase of biological and clinical data creates completely new challenges and opportunities in life sciences and transforms life science research in an information science. A shift in the methodologies used for data analysis and management is required to address the increasing challenges, where information and communication technologies (ICT) play an essential role. At the AMC we adopt Web and GRID technologies to enable and enhance biomedical research, participating in the on-going global research effort to develop what is termed "cyberinfrastructures" in the USA, and "e-Science infrastructures" in Europe. In particular we collaborate with the Dutch e-Science Grid (BiGGrid project) and the Biomedical virtual research community established during EGEE projects. The e-Bioscience group currently has activities covering data analysis in the areas of medical imaging, next generation DNA sequencing and proteomics. This talk will present an overview of the activities of this group with the goal of identifying areas of possible collaboration with USP researchers. http://www.bioinformaticslaboratory.nl bio: Silvia D. Olabarriaga was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She graduated in Informatics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brazil) in 1982. After working two years in the Brazilian computer industry (EDISA) as a software engineer, she went back to Informatics at UFRGS to obtain a Master's degree Computer Graphics. Her dissertation was about 3D computer animation (1987), which remained her main reseach topic at INESC, Lisbon (1988-1989) and as a lecturer at the Informatics Institute at UFRGS (1990-2002). From 1994 on, her interests moved into Scientific Visualization and Image Processing, with focus on medical applications. She obtained a PhD in Computer Science in 1999, at the at the University of Amsterdam, NL, with the thesis Human-Computer Interaction for the Segmentation of Medical Images. From April 2002 until February 2005 she worked as a research fellow at the Image Sciences Institutes, UMC-Utrecht, NL, in medical image segmentation (CT). In March 2005 she joined the Virtual Laboratory for e-Sciences projectat the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. Her main interests since then include the development, usage and evaluation of grid technology for to enable and enhance advanced biomedical (imaging) applications (e-Science). In 2007 Silvia moved to the Academic Medical Center and became leader of the Medical Diagnosis and