Dear all, I'm very happy to be able to announce the upcoming symposium "Present and Future of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology" which we're organising at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Wednesday October 22 from 14.00-17.00h. *Online registration (free): https://forms.gle/AaXHQne25r9Bz7Vt8 * Zoom link will be distributed by email to registered online participants closer to the event *Programme:* * Dr. Andreas Gisel, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria and Italian Research Council, Italy *"Bioinformatics goes to farmers' fields in Africa”* * Dr. Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, Head of the Bioinformatics Laboratory, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing LNCC/MCTI, Brazil *”Precision Medicine through AI, Genomics, and Metagenomics.”* * Dr. K. Anton Feenstra, Programme director Master Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, VU and UvA Amsterdam, The Netherlands. *"Understanding life through protein interactions"* * Professor Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Head of Bioinformatics at Department of Animal Sciences, SLU, Sweden *"Living the Future: How Biotechnologies and Bioinformatics are Quietly Changing Our World”* * Dr. Senanayake Kanchana, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka *“Cracking the Code: Bioinformatics and the Fight Against Tropical Diseases – The Setaria Genome Case”* * * Professor Jaap Heringa, emeritus, Integrative Bioinformatics, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands. *"Science, Infrastructure and the future of computational biology"* *Online registration (free): https://forms.gle/AaXHQne25r9Bz7Vt8 * This symposium is organised by EMBnet www.embnet.it <http://www.embnet.it> On behalf of the organising team, I hope to meet many of you at our symposium! Groetjes, Anton. -- Groetjes, Anton _____________ _______________________________________________________ | | | | _ _ ___,| K. Anton Feenstra | | / \ / \'| | | IBIVU/Bioinformatics - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | |( | )| | | De Boelelaan 1111 - 1081 HV Amsterdam - Netherlands | | \_/ \_/ | | | Tel: +312059 87783 - skype: kafeenstra - room NU 12A31| | |Feenstra@few.vu.nl -www.few.vu.nl/~feenstra/ | | | "You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could | | | thrill him to the core of his being. Such is the | | | privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, | | | Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues." (Richard | | | Dawkins) | |_____________|_______________________________________________________|