ECCB10 - European Conference on Computational Biology

Date:

26 Sep 2010 to 29 Sep 2010

Location:

Ghent, Belgium

ECCB10 is the key European computational biology event in 2010 uniting scientists working in a broad range of disciplines, including  bioinformatics, computational biology, biology, medicine, and systems biology. As part of the ECCB conference series, it will be organized this year jointly by the Belgian and Dutch bioinformatics communities.

Leading bioinformatics researchers, computational biologists, and bio-IT professionals from Europe and around the world gather annually at the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) for four days of presentations, poster sessions, workshops, software demonstrations, and most impotantly - networking. ECCB is the leading European meeting and a primary international conference at which people report on and discuss advances in this rapidly-expanding field.

Ghent is one of Europe's most exciting medieval towns, a glorious eclectic city with spectacular buildings and a vivid cultural experience (National Geographic Traveler ranked it 3rd best historic place to visit internationally in 2008). Ghent is directly accessible by train from Brussels airport. The conference venue is highly convenient and located in a beautiful park within the city center.

Invited Speakers:

• Peer Bork (EMBL-Heidelberg)
• Elaine Mardis (Washington University)
• Michael Sternberg (Imperial College London)
• Hans Westerhoff (University of Manchester, Free University of Amsterdam)
• Yves Van der Peer (University of Ghent)

Key dates:

• Paper submission deadline - April 9, 2010
• Industry and demo track submission deadline - July 2, 2010
• Poster submission deadline - June 20, 2010
• Early registration deadline - August 20, 2010

For more information visit the conference website:http://www.eccb2010.org/

NBIC is Gold sponsor of the ECCB10 and will be present with an exhibition booth at the conference.

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