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<div>---</div><div><br></div><div>Dear Colleagues:</div><div><br></div><div>We would like to invite you to the "<b>Plant Genomics Minisymposium</b>" organized by Prof. Yves Van de Peer (PSB, VIB-UGent). This minisymposium is in conjunction with the ESF sponsored workshop "<a href="http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/ngs_workshop/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Generation and Analysis of Next Generation (NGS) Data</a>". You can find the up-to-date progresses and the future perspective in the field of plant genomics during this minisymposium.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Plant Genomics Minisymposium</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Date</b>: 27th of November (Tuesday), 2012</div><div><b>Location</b>: Jozef Schell seminar room, VIB FVMS building, Technologiepark 927 Zwijnaarde</div>
<div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Program</b>:</div><div>9:00 – 9:45 <b>Sequencing complex plant genomes : the impact of New Sequencing Technologies.</b> </div><div> Prof. Patrick Wincker (Genoscope, France)</div>
<div>9:45 – 10:30<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><b>The past, present, and future of RNA sequencing and expression quantification.</b></div><div> Prof. Manfred Grabherr (Uppsala University, Sweden) </div>
<div>10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break</div><div>11:00 – 11:45 <b>Journey through the past: 200 million years of plant evolution</b> </div><div> Prof. Yves Van de Peer (Ghent University, Belgium)</div><div>
<br></div><div><b>Contact</b>: More information of this minisymposium please contact Dr. Yao-Cheng Lin (<a href="mailto:yalin@psb.vib-ugent.be" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">yalin@psb.vib-ugent.be</a>)</div>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Yao-Cheng Lin<br>Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Division<br>VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, UGent<br>Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent, Belgium<br>TEL: +32 (0)9 33 13 821 GSM: +32 (0)472 480 968<br>
<br><a href="http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be" target="_blank">http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be</a> <div><br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"</font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Impact on farmers' fields, not learned publications, </font></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:19px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">is the measure by which we will judge the value of our work.</font></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">" -- Norman Borlaug</font></div>
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