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        Winter School 2013: At the intersection of bioinformatics and
        medicine</b><br>
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        font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">From 10-15
        March 2013, PhD students working at the intersection of
        bioinformatics and medicine can meet each other in the snow in
        Kandersteg for the NBIC/SIB Winterschool.</p>
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        has an essential place in the interplay of genomics, drug
        discovery and clinical diagnostics, and can thus bring new
        insights to the physicians&#8217; daily work.&nbsp; <br>
        Bioinformatics is needed, for instance, in massive genome data
        analysis, data integration, clever data mining, clinical expert
        systems, variant databases, from protein domain knowledge to
        phenotype, among many options. <span
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                sans-serif">Recognising the importance
                of bioinformatics in medicine, the SIB and NBIC have
                joined forces to organise a
                joint Winter School focusing in the intersection of
                bioinformatics and
                medicine. The topics that will be covered by leading
                scientists in the field
                include:&nbsp; cancer genomics and treatments, GWAS studies,
                analysis of
                medical records and ontologies, drug testing and design.
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      Niko Beerenwinkel (BSSE, ETHZ, and SIB, CH)&nbsp;<br>
      Florian Markowetz (Cancer Research, UK)<br>
      Sven Bergmann (UniL and SIB, CH)&nbsp;<br>
      Han Brunner (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, and NBIC,
      NL)<br>
      Tina Ritschel (Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, NL)<br>
      Markus Gastreich<span style="font-size:
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      Frank van Harmelen (VU University Amsterdam, NL)&nbsp;<br>
      Janna Hasting (EBI, UK and SIB, CH) <br>
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        font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Websites: </b><br>
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/winterschool-2013/">http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/winterschool-2013/</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.isb-sib.ch/education/sib-phd-training-network/phd-winter-school-2013.html">http://www.isb-sib.ch/education/sib-phd-training-network/phd-winter-school-2013.html</a><b>&nbsp;
        </b>(including Registration link)<br>
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        font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">See also
        attached pdf for Course Programme.<b></b></p>
      <b>More information:</b><br>
      Celia van Gelder, NBIC - Netherlands Bioinformatics
      Centre,<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:celia.van.gelder@nbic.nl">celia.van.gelder@nbic.nl</a><br>
      Patricia Palagi, SIB - Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics,
      <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Patricia.Palagi@isb-sib.ch">Patricia.Palagi@isb-sib.ch</a><br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder
Coordinator Education CMBI
Projectleader Education NBIC
tel. +31-(0)24-3666120
e-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:C.vanGelder@cmbi.ru.nl">C.vanGelder@cmbi.ru.nl</a> 
websites: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.cmbi.ru.nl">www.cmbi.ru.nl</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.nbic.nl">www.nbic.nl</a>

Postal address:
CMBI 260
Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS
PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen
The Netherlands </pre>
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