<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">We invite researchers (especially PhD students and postdocs) from all branches of the life sciences to participate in the one-week<b class=""> Lorentz workshop</b> <b class="">Life Sciences with Industry 2017</b> in Leiden: April 3 – 7, 2017. During the workshop, the about 24 participants will tackle in groups of eight, three <i class="">scientifically challenging</i> and <i class="">commercially important</i> problems formulated by the following three companies.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Bejo Zaden B.V. </span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 3pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i class="">Genomic selection, genome-wide selection or genomic prediction in vegetables<o:p class=""></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">BaseClear B.V.<span style="color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""> <br class=""></span></span></b><i class="">DNA data storage: reading and writing data in DNA in fast and cost-effective way<o:p class=""></o:p></i></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class="">Heineken</b><i class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i class="">Getting the taste of alcohol in alcohol-free drinks<o:p class=""></o:p></i></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">For a full description of these challenges see: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/862/info.php3?wsid=862&venue=Snellius" style="color: purple;" class="">https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/862/info.php3?wsid=862&venue=Snellius</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">The workshop will take place in Leiden in the building of the Lorentz Center, an organisation that is specialised in organising scientific workshops (</span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">).<br class="">To create multi-disciplinary teams, participants will be selected based on their (i) specific background, (ii) motivation to participate, and (iii) date of registration (<i class="">first come first served).<o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class="">Register on the workshop website</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">:<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/862/registration.php3?wsid=862&venue=Snellius" style="color: purple;" class="">https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/862/registration.php3?wsid=862&venue=Snellius</a><br class=""><b class="">Deadline: Sunday March 19, 2017. </b><br class="">Participation is free of charge, including hotel accommodation, lunches and two dinners during the workshop. The workshop is sponsored by the Lorentz Center, the Research School BioSB (</span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://biosb.nl/" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">http://biosb.nl/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">), NWO - Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (</span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.stw.nl/" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">http://www.stw.nl/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">) and the three companies involved.<br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Need for more information? <br class="">Contact (</span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:filippo@lorentzcenter.nl" style="color: purple;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Gerda Filippo</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">) at the Lorentz Center (phone </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">+31 71 527 5401)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">.<br class=""><br class=""></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">We hope to welcome you on April 3<sup class="">rd</sup> 2017.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">the organisers:<br class="">• Dr. Gökhan Ertaylan, MaCSBio, Maastricht University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">• Dr. Karen van Eunen, University of Groningen<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">• Dr. Ellen Feddes, NWO-Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences, Utrecht<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">• Prof. Dr. Bas Teusink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">• Prof. Dr. em. Roel van Driel, Universiteit van Amsterdam<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">*************************************************************************************</span><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>