Dear All, Please see below the invitation for the Lorentz workshop Life Sciences with Industry (LSwI) 2017: ************************************************************************************* We invite researchers (especially PhD students and postdocs) from all branches of the life sciences to participate in the one-week Lorentz workshop Life Sciences with Industry 2017 in Leiden: April 3 – 7, 2017. During the workshop, the about 24 participants will tackle in groups of eight, three scientifically challenging and commercially important problems formulated by the following three companies. Bejo Zaden B.V. Genomic selection, genome-wide selection or genomic prediction in vegetables BaseClear B.V. DNA data storage: reading and writing data in DNA in fast and cost-effective way Heineken Getting the taste of alcohol in alcohol-free drinks For a full description of these challenges see: https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/862/info.php3?wsid=862&venue=Snellius The workshop will take place in Leiden in the building of the Lorentz Center, an organisation that is specialised in organising scientific workshops (http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/). To create multi-disciplinary teams, participants will be selected based on their (i) specific background, (ii) motivation to participate, and (iii) date of registration (first come first served). Register on the workshop website:https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/862/registration.php3?wsid=862&venue=Snellius Deadline: Sunday March 19, 2017. Participation is free of charge, including hotel accommodation, lunches and two dinners during the workshop. The workshop is sponsored by the Lorentz Center, the Research School BioSB (http://biosb.nl/), NWO - Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (http://www.stw.nl/) and the three companies involved. Need for more information? Contact (Gerda Filippo<mailto:filippo@lorentzcenter.nl>) at the Lorentz Center (phone +31 71 527 5401). We hope to welcome you on April 3rd 2017. the organisers: • Dr. Gökhan Ertaylan, MaCSBio, Maastricht University • Dr. Karen van Eunen, University of Groningen • Dr. Ellen Feddes, NWO-Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences, Utrecht • Prof. Dr. Bas Teusink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam • Prof. Dr. em. Roel van Driel, Universiteit van Amsterdam ************************************************************************************* Gökhan Ertaylan, PhD Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio) - Maastricht University http://macsbio.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ Universiteitssingel 60, 6229 ER Maastricht • +31 (0) 43 38 81123 [cid:AD5B6BCD-6229-45A4-9606-B735CFDC8172@wireless.unimaas.local] [cid:C5024CF8-88BC-4C23-8AB4-4EC19083DB86@wireless.unimaas.local] This message is confidential and may contain privileged information. It is intended for the named recipient only. If you receive it in error please notify me and permanently delete the original message and any copies.