Forwarding on behalf of Mick Watson: Dear All I’m delighted to invite you to a conference I help organise every year, Genome Science, with speakers who use the latest genomic technologies to tackle problems from across the life sciences: Genome Science 2016 http://genomescience.org.uk/, Liverpool, 30th August - 1st September 2016 We have sessions on: Bioinformatics and Computational genomics Clinical and translational genomics Environmental genomics Developmental biology Genome engineering and synthetic biology (NEW this year) Microbial genomics New Technologies, incl. highlight single cell genomics Plant and animal genomics Vendor sessions Science Communication Career development/opportunities Speakers include: Ed Yong, Science Communicator and author recent book “I contain multitudes” (http://tinyurl.com/zk6qaw3) Dr Kosuke Yusa, Sanger, Genome Engineering Dr Jack Gilbert, Argonne National Laboratory, Microbiome Dr Jose Clemente, Mount Sinai Dr David Aanensen, Sanger, Pathogen Surveillanece Prof Allan Downie, John Innes, Ash Dieback Our very own Jeffrey Schoenebeck! Michael Baym, Harvard, Systems Biology And many many more! I look forward to seeing you there! Cheers Mick The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Bert Overduin, PhD TRAINING AND OUTREACH BIOINFORMATICIAN Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-8838 EDINBURGH GENOMICS The University of Edinburgh Ashworth Laboratories The King's Buildings Charlotte Auerbach Road Edinburgh EH9 3FL Scotland, United Kingdom tel. +44(0)1316507403 http://genomics.ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.