-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: invitation for our annual departmental meeting ... Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:09:54 +0300 From: Ron Shamir <rshamir@post.tau.ac.il> Reply-To: Ron Shamir <rshamir@post.tau.ac.il> To: Yves Van de Peer <yves.vandepeer@psb.ugent.be> CC: rshamir@tau.ac.il References: <484664E3.8080308@psb.ugent.be> Hi Yves, of course I remember you and thanks for the kind invitation. Let me check my constraints and get back to you. I am going to spend Aug-Nov in Berkeley on sabbatical, and my final answer depends on the exact return date. I hope to know in a week or two. Cheers, Ron. ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Yves Van de Peer <mailto:yves.vandepeer@psb.ugent.be> *To:* rshamir@tau.ac.il <mailto:rshamir@tau.ac.il> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:48 PM *Subject:* invitation for our annual departmental meeting ... Dear Ron, I hope all is well, and that you still remember me :-) We have met in Bertinoro a few years ago, and more recently in New York at the Dream conference. The reason for writing is the following. Every year, we have a departmental labmeeting for which we invite 3 or 4 renowned scientists. Although we are the Department of Plant Systems Biology, we have about 40 computational people, many of whom have a deep interest in systems biology and transcriptional regulation. Since we think you have published a considerable number of really great papers on these topics, it would be an honour for us if you would be willing to be a keynote speaker at this meeting. Our department counts about 200 scientists, and as I've said, a considerable fraction of those are bioinformaticians or computational biologists, while a large fraction of the wet lab people have a growing interest in systems biology approaches (the department was renamed to the department of plant systems biology about 6 years ago). The meeting takes place December 18 and 19th in Ghent, Belgium. It goes without saying that all your expenses will get reimbursed. And Ghent, in case you've never been there, is definitely worth a visit. It's a very nice medieval (not too big) town, with the best beer and chocolate in the world! So, it would be really great if you could accept this invitation. With best regards, Yves -- Yves Van de Peer, PhD. Professor in Bioinformatics and Genome Biology Group Leader Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, UGent Ghent University Technologiepark 927 B-9052 Ghent Belgium Phone: +32 (0)9 331 3807 Cell Phone: +32 (0)476 560 091 Fax: +32 (0)9 331 3809 email: yves.vandepeer@psb.ugent.be <mailto:yves.vandepeer@psb.ugent.be> http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/ -- Yves Van de Peer, PhD. Professor in Bioinformatics and Genome Biology Group Leader Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, UGent Ghent University Technologiepark 927 B-9052 Ghent Belgium Phone: +32 (0)9 331 3807 Cell Phone: +32 (0)476 560 091 Fax: +32 (0)9 331 3809 email: yves.vandepeer@psb.ugent.be http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/