Dear colleague, The abstract submission deadline for ESCS 2016 has been extended to Tuesday 12 July. The ESCS is a biennial interdisciplinary symposium that brings together students and young researchers from computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology, and related fields. This symposium offers you a great opportunity to present your research to an international audience, get insights into hot topics and newly developed methods and build a network within the computational biology community of Europe. We are pleased to announce our three confirmed keynote speakers Kris Laukens (University of Antwerp, Belgium), Yves Van de Peer (Ghent University, Belgium), and Nuria Lopez-Bigas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain). The symposium includes ice-breaking, oral presentations, keynote talks, poster presentations and an evening social event that offer you the opportunity to get to know fellow young scientists from all over Europe in a casual setting. Tuesday 12 July 2016: Abstract submission deadline for oral presentations closes. Please visit http://submit.iscbsc.org/escs to submit your abstract and read the abstract guidelines here <http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/escs2016-abstract-guidelines>. Friday 22 July 2016: Abstract submission deadline for poster presentations closes. Please visit http://submit.iscbsc.org/escs to submit your abstract and read the abstract guidelines here <http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/escs2016-abstract-guidelines> and the poster guidelines here <http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/escs2016-poster-guidelines>. Friday 22 July 2016: Travel fellowship application deadline closes. Please visit submit.iscbsc.org/escs to submit your travel fellowship application and read the travel fellowship guidelines here <http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/2016-TF-Call-Guidelines>. Friday 29 July 2016: The early bird registration deadline for ESCS 2016 closes. please visit http://www.eccb2016.org/registration/ to register for ESCS 2016. We welcome students and young researchers from all areas of computational biology to join our community. Please help us spread the word by sharing the event flyer (please find it attached), and using the hashtag #ESCS16 on social media. Please visit our website http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/ regularly as more information will be announced soon. We look forward to welcome you in The Hague! Annika Jacobsen and Kevin Schwahn, chair and co-chair, ESCS 2016