<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Dear,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">I would like to introduce myself as the <span lang="en">newly appointed </span>coordinator for ELIXIR Belgium. I will coordinate the setup of the Belgian ELIXIR node and will be the central contact person. <span class="" lang="EN-GB">Initially, the </span>main goal of ELIXIR Belgium is to establish communication and more collaboration between the different bioinformatics groups and work towards an active and integrated bioinformatics community. <br></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333;" data-mce-style="color: #333333;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333;" data-mce-style="color: #333333;">The working areas of ELIXIR Belgium include data resources, tools infrastructure, computational and training services. As such, ELIXIR Belgium is valuable to all bioinformaticians, life scientists and industries generating and analyzing data!</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333;" data-mce-style="color: #333333;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333;" data-mce-style="color: #333333;">The ELIXIR Belgium website will be launched soon, meanwhile you can find relevant information concerning tools, trainings, events, etc. on <span style="color: #000080;" class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT8542_com_zimbra_url" data-mce-style="color: #000080;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT8548_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT9764_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT9774_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT3995_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT4001_com_zimbra_url"><a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.elixir-europe.org/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.elixir-europe.org/" data-mce-style="color: #000080;">ELIXIR Europe</a></span></span></span></span></span></span>. <br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333;" data-mce-style="color: #333333;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333;" data-mce-style="color: #333333;">Our activities can be followed on Twitter</span></span><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"> (</span><span style="color: #000080;" class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT8543_com_zimbra_url" data-mce-style="color: #000080;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT8549_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT9765_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT9775_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT3996_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT4002_com_zimbra_url"><a style="color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://twitter.com/ELIXIRnodeBE" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/ELIXIRnodeBE" data-mce-style="color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="DashboardProfileCard-screenname u-inlineBlock u-dir" dir="ltr">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">ELIXIRnodeBE</span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span>). Feel free to follow us!<br></span></div><div><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br></span></div></div><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Best regards,</span><br><div style="text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Kim</span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><div><span style="color: #000080;" data-mce-style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;" color="444" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"> Kim De Ruyck</span><span color="444"> PhD </span></strong></span><span style="font-size: small;" size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><strong><span color="444"> </span></strong><br><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">Coordinator ELIXIR Belgium </span> </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #000080;" class="" data-mce-style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></span><br></div><div><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: #000080;" class=""><span data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;" style="font-size: 11pt;">VIB, Technologiepark 927, 9052 GENT | +32 9 331 36 94</span><br></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #000080; font-size: 11pt;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline; color: #800080;" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"><a style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); text-decoration: underline;" href="https://twitter.com/ELIXIRnodeBE" data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/ELIXIRnodeBE">@ELIXIRnodeBE</a></span> | <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline; color: #800080;" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"><a style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); text-decoration: underline;" href="http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/" data-mce-href="http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/">bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be</a></span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;" class="" data-mce-style="color: #1f497d;" lang="EN-GB"></span><span style="color: #1f497d;" class="" data-mce-style="color: #1f497d;"></span><span style="color: #1f497d;" class="" data-mce-style="color: #1f497d;" lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://corefacilities.vib.be/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://corefacilities.vib.be/" data-mce-style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="" lang="NL-BE"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT3830_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT3842_com_zimbra_url"></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: #1f497d;" class="" data-mce-style="color: #1f497d;"></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><img doc="Briefcase/Banner ELIXIR Belgium for signature.png" src="cid:707d6ed47397d8b2ca8fc900e3a797d8b76e4509@zimbra" data-mce-src="/home/kiuyc@psb.ugent.be/Briefcase/Banner ELIXIR Belgium for signature.png" height="95" width="367"></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="" data-mce-style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1f497d;" class="" data-mce-style="color: #1f497d;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: small;" size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: small;" size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;" size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><span class="Object" role="link"><span class="Object" role="link"></span></span></span><br></div></div><div><span style="font-size: small;" size="2" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"></span><br></div></div></div></body></html>