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    Dear all,<br>
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      You have been invited to participate in the NSBM Spring Meeting.
      Please register and submit your abstract. (Deadline for submitting
      the abstract is March 4).<br>
      <br>
      With kind regards,<br>
      Barbara van Kampen<br>
      CMBI<br>
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          <b><span lang="EN-US">Call for abstracts for the NBIC2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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          <b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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          <b><span lang="EN-US">NBIC2013 &#150; the Netherlands
              Bioinformatics Conference 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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          <b><span lang="EN-US">Date:                    16 &amp; 17
              April 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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          <b><span lang="EN-US">Venue:                De Werelt,
              Lunteren, the Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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          <b>Website:            </b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://www.aanmelder.nl/nbic2013"><b>http://www.aanmelder.nl/nbic2013</b></a><b> 
            <o:p></o:p></b></p>
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          <o:p> </o:p></p>
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          <b><span lang="EN-US">Call for abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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          <span lang="EN-US">You can submit an abstract for an oral
            presentation, a poster presentation and for a demo during
            the application showcase for the NBIC2013 programme. Note,
            there will be a specific session for Data &amp; Technology.
            Abstracts can also be submitted for the two satellite
            meetings: the Metagenomics Satellite track and  the NSBM
            Spring Meeting. Submit your abstract via the conference
            website:
          </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://www.aanmelder.nl/nbic2013"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.aanmelder.nl/nbic2013</span></a>
          <span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <b><span lang="EN-US">Programme<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
                &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">        
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->5 keynote speakers:
          Alexander van Oudenaarden, Janet Thornton, Uwe Sauer, Roeland
          van Ham and Jeroen Raes<o:p></o:p></p>
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            lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
                style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">        
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Satellite
            meetings: Spring meeting of the Netherlands Society on
            Biomolecular Modelling (NSBM) &amp; Metagenomics Satellite
            Track<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">        
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Parallel
            sessions of contributed lectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            workshops<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Poster
            presentations (NB: evening poster session!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            meeting (BIUP)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            Retreat on April 15th<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            for abstract submission: Monday March 4, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            of selection for oral presentations: Friday March 22, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            deadline: April 1, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <b><span lang="EN-US">About<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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          <span lang="EN-US">The Netherlands Bioinformatics Conference
            2013 (NBIC2013) is the 8th edition of the annual conference
            organized by the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC).
            NBIC2013 discusses the latest developments in bioinformatics
            and interrelated disciplines, and their wide-ranging
            applications in life sciences &amp; health, agriculture,
            food &amp; nutrition and industrial biotechnology. NBIC2013
            offers a cross-disciplinary scientific program of (poster)
            presentations, application demonstrations and workshops, as
            well as other opportunities to exchange innovative ideas. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <span lang="EN-US">Contact: Femke Francissen, e-mail: </span><a
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            href="mailto:femke.francissen@nbic.nl"><span lang="EN-US">femke.francissen@nbic.nl</span></a>
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