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<p class="MsoPlainText">Dear Colleague,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">I would like to invite you to the upcoming <b>RSG Belgium Symposium 2016</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The symposium will take place on <b>June 3, 2016, 2PM</b> at the University of
<b>Leuven</b>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="NL-BE">(Room 331-01 Landbouwinstituut Hoofdgebouw, Kasteelpark Arenberg 20, 3001 HEVERLEE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The event is focused around young bioinformaticians/computational biologists (master students, PhD students, young post-docs),
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<p class="MsoPlainText">who will get the opportunity to present their work in a broad research context and network with one another.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">I am very happy to announce our keynote speaker for this event,
<b>prof. dr. Yves Moreau</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Prof. Moreau's research focuses on systems biology techniques to understand how variation in a genome leads to variation in risk and severity of genetic diseases.
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<p class="MsoPlainText">He also applies these techniques for diagnosis and disease gene discovery in congenital genetic disorders. Additionally, Prof. Moreau is an active member of the ISCB community.
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Not only is he currently a member of the ISCB board of directors, he also chaired ECCB in 2010 and in 2014.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Registration is free but mandatory</b>, and can be done by filling in
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<p class="MsoPlainText">the form at: <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/whU1ay8YLe">http://goo.gl/forms/whU1ay8YLe</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">After the symposium (incl. reception), for those interested, we will have a
<b>social event</b> in Leuven (walk, dinner, drinks).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">You can submit an <b>abstract for an oral presentation</b> until April 30, 2016 by mail to
<a href="mailto:rsg-belgium@iscbsc.org">rsg-belgium@iscbsc.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">You are most welcome to send this invitation to anyone that might be interested!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Hope to see you there,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Bart Cuypers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">RSG Belgium President<o:p></o:p></p>
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