<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent">Dear colleague,</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The abstract submission deadline for ESCS 2016 has been extended to Tuesday 12 July.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);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 style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);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 style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);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 style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tuesday 12 July 2016: </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract submission deadline for oral presentations closes. </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Please visit </span><a href="http://submit.iscbsc.org/escs" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> to submit your abstract and read the abstract guidelines </span><a href="http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/escs2016-abstract-guidelines" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><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><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday 22 July 2016: </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract submission deadline for poster presentations closes. </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Please visit </span><a href="http://submit.iscbsc.org/escs" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;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:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> to submit your abstract and read the abstract guidelines </span><a href="http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/escs2016-abstract-guidelines" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><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><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> and the poster guidelines </span><a href="http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/escs2016-poster-guidelines" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><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><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Friday 22 July 2016: </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Travel fellowship application deadline closes. Please visit </span><a href="http://submit.iscbsc.org/escs" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><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;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> to submit your travel fellowship application and read the travel fellowship guidelines </span><a href="http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/2016-TF-Call-Guidelines" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><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><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Friday 29 July 2016: </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The early bird registration deadline for ESCS 2016 closes. </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">please visit </span><a href="http://www.eccb2016.org/registration/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><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;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> to register for ESCS 2016.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);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. Please visit our website </span><a href="http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><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"> regularly as </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">more information will be announced soon.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We look forward to welcome you in The Hague!</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Annika Jacobsen and Kevin Schwahn, </span></p><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">chair and co-chair, ESCS 2016</span><br></div>
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