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<st1:place w:st="on">BENELUX</st1:place> BIOINFORMATICS CONFERENCE
2007
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November 12-13, 2007 --- <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Leuven</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place>
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Submission by September 23,
2007 ***<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>*** F.W.O.-Vlaanderen
*** NBIC *** BioScope-IT *** Keygene N.V.
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Dear Bioinformatics
researchers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The deadline for abstract
submission for the Benelux Bioinformatics Conference 2007 is quickly
approaching (September 23, 2007). Can we encourage every one of you to submit a
short abstract (max. 500 words) on original or previously published work for
poster or oral presentation at BBC07? Registration is now open. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The Benelux Bioinformatics
Conference is a two-day international conference on bioinformatics. It is the
primary community event for bioinformatics researchers in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place>, and Luxemburg with
excellent networking opportunities. The conference is aimed at both academic
and industry researchers. This year's edition, BBC 2007, will take place in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Leuven</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place>
on November 12-13, 2007. Check out the conference web site at <a
href="http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/bbc2007/"
title="http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/bbc2007/">http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/bbc2007/</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>See you at the conference! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Kind regards, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The local organizing
committee<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Yves Moreau<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Kathleen Marchal<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Bart De Moor<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Bert Coessens<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>CALL FOR ABSTRACT<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The BBC 2007 program will
feature invited talks together with oral presentations and poster sessions.
Participants are cordially invited to submit an abstract (max. 500 words) for
their conference contribution by September 23, 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>SPONSORS<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The conference is sponsored
by the Fund for Scientific Research - <st1:place w:st="on">Flanders</st1:place>
(F.W.O.-Vlaanderen), the Netherlands Bioinformatics Center (NBIC), BioScope-IT
(the Flemish Bioinformatics Network), and Keygene N.V. It is organized within
the framework of the Interuniversity Attraction Pole on Bioinformatics and
Systems Biology (BioMaGNet) and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">K.U.Leuven</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> for Computational
Systems Biology (SymBioSys).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Charles Lawrence, Center
for Computational Molecular Biology,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Brown</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Providence</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">RI</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- M. Madan Babu,
MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Yves Van de Peer,
Department of Plant Systems Biology,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Flemish Institute for
Biotechnology (VIB) and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of
Gent</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Martijn Huynen, Center for
Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Radboud</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Nijmegen</st1:City></st1:place> Medical Centre<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>VENUE AND REGISTRATION<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The conference will take
place in <st1:City w:st="on">Leuven</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region>
at the Arenberg Institute, Auditorium 02.C4, Naamsestraat 96, 3000 <st1:place
w:st="on">Leuven</st1:place>. The venue is located in downtown <st1:place
w:st="on">Leuven</st1:place>, next to the historical city center with its
pleasant atmosphere, pubs, and restaurants. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Registration is now open and
the registration fee is 40 Euros. Group registration is possible.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>KEY DATES<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Deadline for abstract
submission<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> September 23, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Notification of selection
of oral contributions<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> October 14, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Deadline for registration<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> November 4, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- <st1:place w:st="on">Benelux</st1:place>
Bioinformatics Conference 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> November 12-13, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Jack Leunissen, U.
Wageningen, The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Jan-Peter Nap,
Hanzehogeschool Groningen, The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Martin Huynen, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Radboud</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">U.</st1:PlaceType> <st1:City
w:st="on">Nijmegen</st1:City>, The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Yves Van de Peer, VIB
& <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">U.Gent</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Jacques van Helden,
Universite Libre de Bruxelles, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Louis Wehenkel, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Universite de Liege</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Yves Moreau, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">K.U.Leuven</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Kathleen Marchal, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">K.U.Leuven</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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