NBIC Conference 2010

Announcement of the fifth edition of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre Conference:

Date: 29 & 30 March 2010
Venue: Congrescentrum De Werelt, Lunteren

Programme

This year the conference will consist of 2 separate days: a closed BioRange Project Meeting on March 29 aimed at the NBIC programmes and researchers and an open 2nd NBIC Conference day on March 30.

Day 1: BioRange Project Meeting - March 29

This will be a closed meeting only accessible for people working in a NBIC Partner organisation. We expect all NBIC project participants financed by NBIC working on BioRange and BioAssist projects to be present at this meeting. In addition, we invite all other researchers who are involved in the NBIC programmes as well as researchers that worked in NBIC projects that have already finished. Goal of this meeting is to bring together the researchers related to the NBIC programmes, to exchange information between projects, open discussion and to get to know each other. There will be parallel workshops, BioRange project presentations (on abstract submission), poster sessions, and a social event in the evening.

Detailed programme

Day 2: NBIC Conference - March 30

Day 2 of the NBIC Conference is open for everyone interested, and will offer a lively programme with international keynote speakers, an application showcase and presentations by two NBIC keynote speakers. Also the first presentation of the NBIC Young Bioinformatian Award is planned on this day. Confirmed keynote speakers:

Mark A. Musen, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University, National Center for Biomedical Ontology, USA
Paul Kersey, Ensembl Genomes Team, EMBL-EBI, United Kingdom
Yair Field, Weizmann Institute of Science, Segal Lab of Computational Biology, Israel

Detailed programme