-------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: Science Club “Systems and Synthetic Biology” Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:34:38 +0100 From: Mark Veugelers <Mark.Veugelers@vib.be> To: Yves Van de Peer <yves.vandepeer@psb.ugent.be> Hallo Yves, Ik zou graag een Science Club ‘Systems and Synthetic Biology’ opstarten, waarbij Dirk Inzé me naar jou verwezen heeft. Hierbeneden staat al wat text info; ik kan dit ook toelichten op de VIB Nieuwjaarsreceptie. Bassem Hassan van VIB11-Leuven is ook potentieel geinteresseerd. Groeten, Mark *From:* Dirk Inze [mailto:dirk.inze@psb.UGent.be] *Sent:* zaterdag 15 december 2007 21:06 *To:* Mark Veugelers *Cc:* Hilde Diegenant *Subject:* RE: Science Club “Systems and Synthetic Biology” Beste Mark, Yves Van de Peer gaat dit op zich nemen. Mvg Dirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* Mark Veugelers [mailto:Mark.Veugelers@vib.be] *Sent:* woensdag 12 december 2007 14:41 *To:* Dirk Inze *Subject:* Science Club “Systems and Synthetic Biology” Hallo Dirk, Met een 6-tal Science clubs up and running denk ik dat de tijd meer dan rijp is voor een Science Club “Systems and Synthetic Biology”. Bent u, of iemand van uw departement, geinteresseerd om deel uit te maken van het Organizing Committee van deze Science Club ? Hieronder vind u wat algemene informatie over de organisatie van de VIB Science Club Meetings: The budget for each science club is 5.000 €. This is sufficient to cover the catering (1000-1500 € for 75-100 persons) and travel/hotel for 3-4 European guest speakers. VIB-HQ reimburses/organizes the speaker’s travel/hotel costs and pays a €200 speaker fee. VIB-HQ also arranges the logistic support (venue reservation, organization breaks/lunch, registrations,....) for science clubs similar to the VIB seminar. The workload for the organizing committee is kept to a minimum (inviting an international speaker, selecting abstracts for an oral presentation, chairing sessions at the meeting). Science Clubs alternate between two venues: Schell seminar room in FSVM-Building, Ghent, and Provinciehuis Leuven. Just like the other Science clubs, the goal would be to have a Science Club Systems and Synthetic Biology as a yearly event which gathers around 100 persons (so, sufficiently broad in interest). It is easiest for me to work with an organizing committee of 3 persons from different departments. The organizing committee can invite 3-4 European top speakers in the field (boils down to 1 international speaker per organizer). Before inviting speakers, suggested names are shared with the entire organizing committee and myself. This is to get speakers whose talks are interesting for several research groups from different departments. In addition to the invited speakers, the rest of the program is allocated to VIB speakers (Some abstracts can be selected for an oral presentation, while some other talks can be given by VIB group leaders or postdocs). Note that the Science Club meetings are closed, VIB-only meetings to stimulate institutional integration and sharing of unpublished results. Once a Science Club is running well, it can be expanded with a Lecture program open to everybody (e.g. similar to the Harvey Society Lectures), whereby also non-European speakers can be invited [we are at this stage now for science clubs which have been going for a couple of years]. Greetings, Mark -- 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/