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***                BENELUX BIOINFORMATICS CONFERENCE 2007                ***

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***               November 12-13, 2007 --- Leuven, Belgium               ***

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***                  www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/bbc2007                  ***

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***                    PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AVAILABLE                     ***

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***      F.W.O.-Vlaanderen     ***      NBIC     ***     BioScope-IT     ***

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***   Keygene N.V.   ***   Silicon Graphics   ***   SAS   ***   NetApp   ***

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Dear Bioinformatics researchers,

 

We are looking forward to an exciting meeting! We had an astounding 130 abstract submissions, 16 of which have been selected for oral presentation. We will thus have 4 keynote speakers (Charles Lawrence, Brown University; Martijn Huynen, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center; Madan Babu, University of Cambridge; Yves Van de Peer, Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and University of Gent) and 16 contributed presentations, with a strong focus on systems biology. There will be ample time for networking at the poster sessions. The provisional program is available at www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/bbc2007/program.php.

 

We urge you to register quickly as there is a possibility that we hit the maximum capacity of the meeting room (about 250 participants)! The deadline for registration is November 4.

www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/bbc2007/registration.php.   

 

See you at the conference!

 

Kind regards,

 

The local organizing committee

  Yves Moreau

  Kathleen Marchal

  Bart De Moor

  Bert Coessens

 

SCOPE

 

The Benelux Bioinformatics Conference is a two-day international conference on bioinformatics. It is the primary community event for bioinformatics researchers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg with excellent networking opportunities. The conference is aimed at both academic and industry researchers. This year's edition, BBC 2007, will take place in Leuven, Belgium on November 12-13, 2007. Check out the conference web site at http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/bbc2007/.

 

SPONSORS

 

The conference is sponsored by the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (F.W.O.-Vlaanderen), the Netherlands Bioinformatics Center (NBIC), BioScope-IT (the Flemish Bioinformatics Network), and Keygene N.V., Silicon Graphics, NetApp and The SAS Institute. It is organized within the framework of the Interuniversity Attraction Pole on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BioMaGNet) and the K.U.Leuven Center for Computational Systems Biology (SymBioSys).

 

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

- Charles Lawrence, Center for Computational Molecular Biology,

  Brown University, Providence, RI

      - Abuse of the mode in genomics and ensemble-based alternative

 

- M. Madan Babu, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology,

  University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

      - TBA

 

- Yves Van de Peer, Department of Plant Systems Biology,

  Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and University of Gent, Belgium

      - The importance of gene and genome duplication for evolution and biological complexity: a case study on plants

 

- Martijn Huynen, Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics,

  Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre

- Comparative genomics for protein function prediction: higher resolution new data sources and applications to human disease

 

VENUE AND REGISTRATION

 

The conference will take place in Leuven, Belgium at the Arenberg Institute, Auditorium 02.C4, Naamsestraat 96, 3000 Leuven. The venue is located in downtown Leuven, next to the historical city center with its pleasant atmosphere, pubs, and restaurants.

 

Registration is now open and the registration fee is 40 Euros. Group registration is possible.

 

KEY DATES

- Deadline for registration

  November 4, 2007

 

- Benelux Bioinformatics Conference 2007

  November 12-13, 2007

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

 

- Jack Leunissen, U. Wageningen, The Netherlands

- Jan-Peter Nap, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, The Netherlands

- Martin Huynen, Radboud U. Nijmegen, The Netherlands

- Yves Van de Peer, VIB & U.Gent, Belgium

- Jacques van Helden, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

- Louis Wehenkel, Universite de Liege, Belgium

- Yves Moreau, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

- Kathleen Marchal, K.U.Leuven, Belgium