Dear colleagues, On behalf of our SIB colleagues we want to share the information that SIB has just opened the *call for abstracts for the [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference 2023 <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbc2.ch%2F&data=05%7C01%7Crob.hooft%40health-ri.nl%7Ce1066ac4fb4a4f52fdcf08daf3ec301d%7C4bdee30a0c944865bc521d9f894a4975%7C0%7C0%7C638090493001952570%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8OZ428mL7nDYZ1AczmkJxVaYxiBAM8tC4JTRZ2JUyLY%3D&reserved=0>*. It will take place from 11-13 September in Basel, Switzerland under the theme “Big data in biology: promises and challenges”, featuring *Elisabeth Bik* and *Fabian Theis* as keynote speakers. In addition, the call for entries for the *International Bioinformatics Awards 2023* is still running and will end on *31 January 2023*. The SIB Awards is a biennial competition open to worldwide early career bioinformaticians and ground-breaking resources of national and international standing, in the following three categories: o PhD Paper Award <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sib.swiss%2Fscience-promotion%2Fbioinformatics-awards%23paper&data=05%7C01%7Crob.hooft%40health-ri.nl%7Ce1066ac4fb4a4f52fdcf08daf3ec301d%7C4bdee30a0c944865bc521d9f894a4975%7C0%7C0%7C638090493001952570%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=o4iDdoO1TMRm84m%2FmieM6FfWZpyaHekLUp96RYcUjHw%3D&reserved=0> o Early Career Award <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sib.swiss%2Fscience-promotion%2Fbioinformatics-awards%23early-career&data=05%7C01%7Crob.hooft%40health-ri.nl%7Ce1066ac4fb4a4f52fdcf08daf3ec301d%7C4bdee30a0c944865bc521d9f894a4975%7C0%7C0%7C638090493001952570%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zvHcjcoHAtbuZ1%2FCY5LucNJcGi4Fglrb83bkiBGBfjA%3D&reserved=0> o Innovative Resource Award <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sib.swiss%2Fscience-promotion%2Fbioinformatics-awards%23resource&data=05%7C01%7Crob.hooft%40health-ri.nl%7Ce1066ac4fb4a4f52fdcf08daf3ec301d%7C4bdee30a0c944865bc521d9f894a4975%7C0%7C0%7C638090493001952570%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=AhjP7oeLJGB1r0r2LNEdQZmbcS0Je6zD9aYOoX1ZKsA%3D&reserved=0> Best Celia -- Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Training Programme Manager DTL/ELIXIR-NL/Health-RI Network Manager TDCC-LSH tel. +31613375327 e-mail: celia.van.gelder@dtls.nl websites: https://www.dtls.nl/, https://www.health-ri.nl/, https://www.elixir-europe.org/platforms/training twitter: celia_vgelder Office: DTL | Jaarbeurs Innovation Mile (JIM) | 6th floor Beatrixgebouw | Jaarbeursplein 6 | 3521 AL Utrecht While I may be sending this email outside my normal office hours, I have no expectation to receive a reply outside yours.