Dear all, Friday October 13, 2018, we are hosting together with the IB2 student day also the ISCB RSG Belgium student day. You’re all invited to participate. Send in your abstracts asap (the sooner the more chance you will be selected for a presentation) for oral/poster presentation toib2rgs@gmail.com with the following information: Your name and your Academic affiliation. Presentation/poster choice Abstract: maximum 400 words, figures not allowed. Registration is free. Please register before the 11th of October with the following link : https://goo.gl/forms/nJ2ZNCqt13URjsk03 Below you can find the program for that day. Kind regards Tom BIOINFORMATICS DOUBLE EVENT, second edition of ISCB Belgium RSG and IB2 Bioinformatics STUDENT DAY When: Friday, the 13th of October 2017, 9 am- 7 pm Where: Plenary Room, U-Residence Building, ULB-VUB La Plaine-Etterbeek campus, Brussels PROGRAM: 9.00-9.10 Welcome and Introductions 9.10-10.30 4 selected student presentations (20 min. each) 10.30-11.00 Coffee break 11.00-12.00 Keynote speaker: Prof. Gert Vriend (CMBI, Radboudumc, Nijmegen,Netherlands) Harvesting sequence information for GPCR structures 12.00-12.30 Poster flash presentations 12.30 - 2 pm Lunch and Poster session 2.00-3.00 pm Keynote speaker: Prof. Elfride De Baere (CMGG, UGent, Belgium) Why exome sequencing fails: lessons from mendelian blinding diseases 3.00-4.00 pm 3 selected student presentations (20 min. each) 4.00-4.20 pm Coffee break 4.20-5.00 pm 2 selected student presentations (20 min. each) 5.00-6.00 pm Keynote speaker: Prof. Axel Cleeremans (UNI, ULB, Brussels, Belgium) Computational principles for consciousness 6.00-7.00 pm Closing and drinks ________________________________________________________________________________ Tom Lenaerts Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Boulevard du Triomphe CP 212 1050 Brussels. Belgium. Vice-president of the ULB Computer Science Department (http://www.ulb.ac.be/facs/sciences/info/) and co-head of the Machine Learning Group (mlg.ulb.ac.be) MLG Office: Campus La Plaine, Building O, room 2.O8.117 (mon, tue and thur) MLG Phone: +32 2 650 60 04 MLG Fax: +32 2 650 56 09 Director of the Interuniversity Institute for Bioinformatics in Brussels (www.ibsquare.be) IB2 Office: Campus La Plaine, Building C, room 2.C6.107 (wed and fri) IB2 Phone: +32 2 650 59 43 IB2 Fax: +32 2 650 54 25 IB2 secr: +32 2 650 20 13 Also affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium ai.vub.ac.be ________________________________________________________________________________