From 10-15 March 2013, PhD students working at the intersection of bioinformatics and medicine can meet each other in the snow in Kandersteg for the NBIC/SIB Winterschool.

Bioinformatics has an essential place in the interplay of genomics, drug discovery and clinical diagnostics, and can thus bring new insights to the physicians’ daily work. 
Bioinformatics is needed, for instance, in massive genome data analysis, data integration, clever data mining, clinical expert systems, variant databases, from protein domain knowledge to phenotype, among many options.

Recognising the importance of bioinformatics in medicine, the SIB and NBIC have joined forces to organise a joint Winter School focusing in the intersection of bioinformatics and medicine. The topics that will be covered by leading scientists in the field include:  cancer genomics and treatments, GWAS studies, analysis of medical records and ontologies, drug testing and design.

Speakers

Niko Beerenwinkel (BSSE, ETHZ, and SIB, CH) 
Florian Markowetz (Cancer Research, UK)
Sven Bergmann (UniL and SIB, CH) 
Han Brunner (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, and NBIC, NL)
Tina Ritschel (Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, NL)
Markus Gastreich (BioSolveIT, D)
Frank van Harmelen (VU University Amsterdam, NL) 
Janna Hasting (EBI, UK and SIB, CH)

Websites:
http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/winterschool-2013/
http://www.isb-sib.ch/education/sib-phd-training-network/phd-winter-school-2013.html  (including Registration link)

See also attached pdf for Course Programme.

More information:
Celia van Gelder, NBIC - Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre,celia.van.gelder@nbic.nl
Patricia Palagi, SIB - Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, Patricia.Palagi@isb-sib.ch

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Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder
Coordinator Education CMBI
Projectleader Education NBIC
tel. +31-(0)24-3666120
e-mail: C.vanGelder@cmbi.ru.nl 
websites: www.cmbi.ru.nl, www.nbic.nl

Postal address:
CMBI 260
Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS
PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen
The Netherlands