<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent">Dear colleague,</span><br></p><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We would like to remind you that the early-bird registration deadline for ESCS 2016 will close this Friday on 29 July! Please visit</span><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <a href="http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/escs2016-registration" target="_blank">http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/escs2016-registration</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">for more information.</span></b></p><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="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="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="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-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="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="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 using the hashtag #ESCS16 on social media. Please visit our website </span><a href="http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="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-family:arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> regularly as </span><span style="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="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="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="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="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><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="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></p></div></div>