<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ecd483b9-ce4b-74dc-fc15-eceaac818dcc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Dear colleague,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract submission for oral and poster presentations is open for </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">the 4th European Student Council Symposium (ESCS) 2016. ESCS will take place on Saturday 3rd September during ECCB 2016 in The Hague, Netherlands. Please visit </span><a href="http://submit.iscbsc.org/escs" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://submit.iscbsc.org/escs</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> to submit your abstract.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The ESCS is a biennial interdisciplinary symposium that brings together students and young researchers from computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology, and related fields. This symposium offers you a great opportunity to present your research to an international audience, get insights into hot topics and newly developed methods</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">and build a network within the computational biology community of Europe.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We are pleased to announce our three confirmed keynote speakers Kris Laukens (University of Antwerp, Belgium), Yves Van de Peer (Ghent University, Belgium), and Nuria Lopez-Bigas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The symposium includes ice-breaking, oral presentations, keynote talks, poster presentations </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and an evening social event that offer you the opportunity to get to know fellow young scientists from all over Europe in a casual setting.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Please visit our website </span><a href="http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(102,17,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> regularily as </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">more information will be announced soon.</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> For registration details, please visit </span><a href="http://www.eccb2016.org/registration/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(102,17,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.eccb2016.org/registration/</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We welcome students and young researchers from all areas of computational biology to join our community. Please help us spread the word by sharing the event flyer (please find it attached), and using the hashtag #ESCS16 on social media.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We look forward to welcome you in The Hague!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Annika Jacobsen and Kevin Schwahn, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">chair and co-chair, ESCS 2016</span></p><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><img src="cid:ii_154ce4e8b6f94357" alt="Inline images 1" width="322" height="456"><br></span></div></span></div></div><div id="DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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