<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-69e873a9-4e09-2024-66b4-6198745afc11"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-69e873a9-4e0b-6973-2ae5-9049785803d2"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Dear colleague,</span></p><div><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Call for travel fellowship application for European Student Council Symposium (ESCS) 2016 is now open. The a</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">bstract submission for oral and poster presentations are open</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> until 24 June. 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:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">submit.iscbsc.org/escs</span></a><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> to submit your abstract and to apply for travel fellowship.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Read more about the ESCS travel fellowship </span><a href="http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/2016-TF-Call-Guidelines" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">here</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;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 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:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">more information will be announced soon.</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">chair and co-chair, ESCS 2016</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:18.4px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span></span></p><div id="gmail_kopdvguthzwt" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:18.4px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;display:inline-block;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div><br></div></div><div><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span></div></span></div></div><div id="DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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