Call for nominations for AIG

I write to invite nominations (including self-nominations) for an Advisory and Implementation Group to support the NERC Thematic Programme ‘MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL OMICS DATA SYNTHESIS’ (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/omics/). This programme is being administered by a Project Management Team comprised of Prof Dawn Field (CEH), Dr Pete Kille (University of Cardiff), and Prof Thomas Meagher (University of St Andrews), and will include oversight of funding for advanced researchers in bioinformatics, discipline-hopping, and development of a distributed Environmental Omics Synthesis Centre that will serve as a forum for community-level engagement in the development of environmental omics in all its facets.

The full Terms of Reference for the AIG can be found online at <insert link here> and requests for further information can be directed to the Programme Project Manager Tracey Timms-Wilson <tmt@ceh.ac.uk>.

Access to the online AIG application form can be accessed at

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AIG

The Project Management Team is very excited by the promise of this initiative, and we look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Prof Thomas Meagher,

Chair, Advisory and Implementation Group

Twitter Account Launched

To help track developments in the community we have launched a Twitter Account.  It can be seen here: https://twitter.com/#!/envOmicsNERC

NERC 'Omics TAP

Mathematics & Informatics for Environmental Omic Data Synthesis

Mathematics & Informatics for Environmental Omic Data Synthesis is a new five-year NERC research programme. The programme will develop the fundamental knowledge needed to integrate large volumes of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic data into wider environmental analyses to address new research questions.

 A major goal of the programme is to promote the development of omic informatics as a professional niche within environmental research via discipline-hopping from mathematical and computational sciences. NERC has allocated £4m to this programme.

 This website will contain information on the programme as it becomes available.

environmentalomics.org

This website will be available under environmentalomics.org.

Launch of website.

Following a Kick off meeting with NERC we have launched the first preliminary version of our website.