Dear colleagues, The Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics division of the Department of Plant Systems Biology (VIB -- Ghent University) is organizing *BioMaGNet's Annual Meeting* on *October 22nd 2009*. We invite all scientists working on bioinformatics, modelling or related disciplines to participate in this one-day symposium which will focus on research topics covered by the different national and international partners of the Interuniversity Attraction Pole BioMaGNet. Apart from the keynote talks and contributed BioMaGNet presentations, abstracts can be submitted for the poster session. Invited speakers: -Mark Veugelers, Integration Manager VIB -Stein Aerts, Laboratory of Computational Biology -Florence d'Alché-Buc, Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne The meeting will take place at the "Fiers-Schell-Van Montagu" FSVM research building at the Technologiepark 927 in Ghent, Belgium. For more information about registration, abstract submission and updates of the program, please visit http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/biomagnet_2009 We are looking forward to see you at the conference! The organization committee -- Klaas Vandepoele, PhD Tel. 32 (0)9 33 13822 VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, Belgium E-mail: Klaas.Vandepoele@psb.vib-ugent.be Website: http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/