* Apologies for cross-posting - Dear colleague, We are happy to announce that this year on the BioSB conference ( <https://www.aanmelder.nl/biosb2019/abstract-submission> 2-3 April 2019 in Lunteren) there will be a session devoted to Training, Education & Capacity building. This session can only take place if there are enough high-quality submissions related to these topics, so your input is more than welcome!! With this mail we want to invite you to submit an abstract related to your work in training, education, skill building etc. It can be an abstract for an oral presentation (deadline January 25 2019), but also for a poster (deadline March 15, 2019). Possible topics would include, but are not limited to: - experiences in interdisciplinary/bioinformatics/data-science teaching - evaluation of best practices in training, and how to exchange them - increase of computer science/maths/data-science components in bio/medical and other bachelor and/or master curricula - how to shape the bioinformatics/life-sciences-data-science teaching landscape in NL - curriculum building for specific areas, e.g. Open Science, Data Stewardship etc. - how to evaluate the impact of training activities - train the trainer activities - training gap analysis We are looking forward to your submissions and hope to see you in Lunteren in April! Best regards Celia van Gelder, BioSB Conference Education & Training Session Chair Anton Feenstra, BioSB Conference Programme Committee Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Programme Manager DTL Learning Training Coordinator ELIXIR-NL ELIXIR Training Platform Leader tel. +31613375327 e-mail: <mailto:celia.van.gelder@dtls.nl> celia.van.gelder@dtls.nl websites: <http://www.dtls.nl/> www.dtls.nl, <http://www.biosb.nl/> www.biosb.nl skype: celia.van.gelder Office: DTL | Jaarbeurs Innovation Mile (JIM) | 6th floor Beatrixgebouw | Jaarbeursplein 6 | 3521 AL Utrecht Postal address: Postbus 8500 | 3503 RM Utrecht While I may be sending this email outside my normal office hours, I have no expectation to receive a reply outside yours.