8th CMSB Symposium

On Tuesday October 4, the Centre for Medical Systems Biology (CMSB) organises its 8th Annual Symposium, which will be held at the VU in Amsterdam. The symposium is free of charge.

Also this year there is a varied programme applying to the CMSB theme "Improving diagnosis, treatment and prevention of common and rare diseases". In the morning, there are four overview stories given by well-established CMSB researchers: Eco de Geus, Gisela Terwindt, Peter Heutink and Silvère van der Maarel. In the afternoon, there are three parallel sessions. In these sessions their researchers will present their findings covering the main CMSB research programme diseases Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, depression, metabolic syndrome and migraine, the theme ‘societal aspects of genomics’, and platforms immunology and DIAL (data integration, analysis and logistics).

As their closing speaker, they are honoured to present Tune H. Pers. He is a computational biologist from the University of Copenhagen, and did his PhD in the Brunak research group at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark. During his doctoral studies, his main focus has been on the development of integrative methods that augment genetic analyses of complex traits. Tune Pers is currently employed as a research fellow at Children’s Hospital Boston and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He will talk about some of his recent work in the presentation “Integrative systems biology: elucidating complex traits”.

Registration is free of charge; please register at Boerhaave Nascholing via this link.

More Information: Petra van Overveld, p.overveld@lumc.nl / 071 526 9551