Deadline for abstract submission is 11 January 2018

Dear colleague,

The second edition of the two day event ‘Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences’ organized by the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), will take place on 8-9 March, 2018 in Leuven, Belgium.

After a sold-out first edition in March 2016, this second edition will feature recent developments in bioinformatics research, and highlight the power of computational biology in the fields of medical, agricultural, and biotechnology research.

With this email we would like to invite you to submit your own research for presentation and to join us and our speakers at #ABLS18.

Special rate for PhD students + poster award

To support junior researchers, VIB offers PhD students a special rate when registering before 11 January 2018. Showcase your own research to the international research community during the poster sessions at the conference. The best abstracts will be selected for a presentation and the best poster will receive a poster prize!

Final program available

The full line-up is as follows:

• Stein Aerts - VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, BE
• Naama Barkai - Weizmann Institute of Science, IL
• Stephan Beck - UCL, UK
• Yana Bromberg - Rutgers University, US
• Albert Heck - Utrecht University, NL
• Michael MacCoss - University of Washington, US
• Steven Maere - VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems biology, BE
• Christine Orengo - University College London, UK
• Markus Ralser - The Francis Crick Institute, UK
• Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee - Carnegie Institution for Science, US
• Frederic Rousseau - VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, BE
• Ron Shamir - Tel Aviv University, IL
• Oliver Stegle - EMBL-EBI, UK
• Henk Stunnenberg - Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Science, NL
• Ines Thiele - University of Luxembourg, LU
• Janet Thornton - EMBL-EBI, UK
• Michele Vendruscolo - University of Cambridge, UK
• Vicki Wysocki - Ohio State University, US

Grab this opportunity to meet experts in the field and to network with hundreds of scientists coming from all around the globe.

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We hope to have triggered your interest in our conference. In case you have questions or remarks, please feel free to contact us.

We look forward to welcoming you in Leuven in March 2018!

With kind regards,
Alexander Botzki

Organizing Committee:

Alexander Botzki, VIB Bioinformatics Core
Brigida Gallone, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology
Diether Lambrechts, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology
Joost Schymkowitz, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research
Vanezza Vermeirssen, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems biology
Paola Masuzzo, VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology
Evy Vierstraete, VIB Science Events manager