Dear colleague, The programme with parallel sessions is now online for the BioSB 2019, the 5th Dutch Bioinformatics and Systems Biology conference that will be held on April 2-3, 2019 in congrescentrum De Werelt in Lunteren. Register now! The conference programme features: • Keynote lectures by: Eran Segal (Weizmann Institute), Mustafa Khammash (ETH Zürich), Michal Linial (Hebrew University of Israel) • Parallel sessions on a.o. Metagenomics, Medical biology, Single cell biology, 3D bioinformatics, Metabolism, Tools & resources, Education, Immunology, Genomics & genome bioinformatics, Data integration & network biology, Working with data resources • Breakout sessions • Poster sessions • Conference dinner and social event in the evening • Presentation of the Young Investigator 2019 award It is still possible to submit an abstract for a poster presentation. Abstract submission deadline: March 15! BioSB PhD retreat 2019 - April 1, 2019 The conference is preceded by a PhD retreat organised by the Young Computational Biologists (ISCB Regional Student Group Netherlands). The afternoon programme features 3 keynote speakers and a panel discussion in which you can share your ideas. In the evening there will be a dinner in the centre of Lunteren, followed by drinks at the conference centre bar. The evening program provides you the opportunity to network with the keynote speakers, fellow PhD students and young researchers. We encourage all PhD students and young researchers in the fields of computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology and related fields to attend this annual retreat to build a network with fellow young peers in the Netherlands. Read more & register! Organisers & sponsors • The conference is sponsored by: NWO, Utrecht Bioinformatics Center, Helis academy, The Hyve, Keygene, DSM and BaseClear. • The conference is organised by the BioSB research school together with the Vrije Universiteit. • ELIXIR Netherlands and the Netherlands Metabolomics Centre are organising a dedicated track and session during the conference. We look forward to meeting you in Lunteren in April! Best regards, on behalf of the BioSB 2019 programme committee Femke Francissen Femke Francissen Community manager BioSB Research School Visiting address: Jaarbeurs Innovation Mile (JIM) | 6th floor Beatrixgebouw | Jaarbeursplein 6 | 3521 AL Utrecht Postal address: Postbus 8500 | 3503 RM Utrecht E-mail: femke.francissen@biosb.nl Mobile: +31 6 17 90 4888 Skype: femke.francissen Website: www.biosb.nl LinkedIn link