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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img width=819 height=220 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D525F2.0795D170" alt=banner><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Dear colleagues, </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>The first </span><a href="https://www.iscb.org/advcompbio2019"><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white'>Advances in Computational Biology conference</span></b></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'> will bring together researchers working on systems biology, omics technologies, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing with applications to biology. The conference is open to everyone to attend, but all the speakers will be women, providing an excellent opportunity to share ideas and build research networks.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>You are invited to register to attend (</span><a href="https://www.iscb.org/advcompbio2019-registration"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://www.iscb.org/advcompbio2019-registration</span></a>)<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> and to submit an abstract for consideration for oral or poster presentations, please see more details here: </span><a href="https://www.iscb.org/advcompbio2019-call-submissions"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://www.iscb.org/advcompbio2019-call-submissions</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Topics included:</span></u><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>1. Learning from Biological Sequences: </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>population genomics, evolutionary genomics, systems biology, transcriptomics, sequence analysis </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>2. When Computational Biology meets Medicine: </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>biomedical applications, mutational landscapes, clinical genomics</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>3. Machines Speeding up Research:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> high performance computing, machine learning in the life sciences, imaging data analysis, dynamic simulations and algorithm development </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The keynote speakers of the conference are:</span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white'> </span></b><a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/orengo-group/people/prof-christine-orengo"><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white'>Christine Orengo</span></b></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>,<b> </b>group leader of Orengo Group at University College London, </span><a href="https://www.bsc.es/przulj-natasa"><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white'>Natasa Przulj</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#549BC4;background:white'>,</span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'> </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>group leader of the Life Sciences - Integrative Computational Network Biology at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-christine-sawley-70b5534/?originalSubdomain=ch"><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white'>Marie-Christine Sawley</span></b></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>, director of the Exascale Lab at Intel. </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Furthermore the participants will have the opportunity to interact personally in <span style='background:white'>round-table informal meetings </span>with women leaders in the fields of IT, academia research and politics that support the conference. <span style='background:white'>Confirmed discussion leads: </span></span><a href="https://www.iscb.org/advcompbio2019-other-activities"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white'>https://www.iscb.org/advcompbio2019-other-activities</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>. </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Important dates:</span></u><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=454 style='width:340.6pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:.6pt'><td valign=top style='background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt;height:.6pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Abstract submission opens</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td valign=top style='background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt;height:.6pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>May 6th, 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style='height:4.05pt'><td valign=top style='background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt;height:4.05pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Abstract submission deadline</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td valign=top style='background:white;padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt;height:4.05pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>July 1st, 2019 </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style='height:4.05pt'><td valign=top style='padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt;height:4.05pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Poster and oral communication notification</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt;height:4.05pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>September 1st, 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style='height:17.15pt'><td valign=top style='padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt;height:17.15pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Early bird registration deadline</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt 5.0pt;height:17.15pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>September 15th, 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>The conference is organised by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center <a href="https://www.iscb.org/advcompbio2019"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>(BSC-CNS)</span></a>, the joint <a href="https://www.imim.es/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>IMIM</span></a>-<a href="https://www.upf.edu/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>UPF</span></a> Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (<a href="http://grib.imim.es/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>GRIB</span></a>) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (<a href="https://www.upc.edu/en?set_language=en"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>UPC</span></a>). It is an affiliate conference of the International Society for Computational Biology (<a href="https://www.iscb.org/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>ISCB</span></a>).</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>We look forward to meeting you at the <b>#AdvCompBio</b> Conference in Barcelona this November! </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Best regards, </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The Organizing Committee</span></i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Mar Albà (UPF/IMIM)</span><span lang=ES><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Eva Alloza (BSC-CNS)</span><span lang=ES><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Rosa Maria Badia (BSC-CNS)</span><span lang=ES><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Nataly Buslón (BSC-CNS)</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Osnat Hakimi (UPC) </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Alba Jené (BSC-CNS)</span><span lang=ES><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Eva Navarrete (BSC-CNS)</span><span lang=ES><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>María José Rementería (BSC-CNS)</span><span lang=ES><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=ES> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="https://www.iscb.org/advcompbio2019"><span style='color:blue;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=1012 height=116 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D525F2.0795D170" alt="cid:image002.jpg@01D50B32.C9A19D60"></span></a><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=360 height=109 id="Picture_x0020_10" src="cid:image003.png@01D525F2.0795D170" alt="cid:image005.png@01D51AE5.1B3886E0"><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='color:#1F4E79'>-- <br>Alba Jené Sanz, PhD<br>Bioinformatics Unit Coordinator<br>Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)<br><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=C/+Jordi+Girona+29,+08034-Barcelona,+Spain&entry=gmail&source=g"><span style='color:#1F4E79'>C/ Jordi Girona 29, 08034-Barcelona, Spain</span></a><br>Tel: +34 93 413 7572<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
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