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Nominations for new BioSB board member

Barbara Bakker will step down as member of the BioSB board. The board solicits active BioSB members who are a group leader in systems biology or bioinformatics at a Dutch university or research institute as candidates for the new position. The following procedure will be followed to select a new board member:

Candidates send a short motivation to the BioSB board before 28 March 2019;
From the candidates the BioSB board will select a nominee and will ask the members for approval during the BioSB Members meeting on 2 April 2019;
The new board member will start her/his term on 1 June 2019.

Looking forward to receiving your nominations!

On behalf of the BioSB board,

Jaap Heringa
Barbara Bakker
Patrick Kemmeren
Perry Moerland

BioSB members meeting - 2 April 2019

We invite all those interested to join the BioSB members meeting which will be organised on 2 April 2019 (12:45 - 14:00, lunch will be available) on the first day of the BioSB 2019 conference. Join us to hear about the latest updates from our research school and to give us your input.

Preliminary agenda:

Update from the BioSB board
- Finances
- Nomination vacancy Barbara Bakker
Update from the BioSB education committee
Update from the BioSB scientific committee
Update from the Young Computational Biologists (YoungCB)

News from the BioSB Education committee

The BioSB course portfolio will be renewed in 2019. We are happy to announce three new 5-day in-depth courses, hosted by experts in the BioSB community:

Statistics for omics
24-28 June 2019, Amsterdam
discussing tools for statistical analysis of high-dimensional data;
Algorithms for genomics
1-5 July 2019, Wageningen
on algorithms and data structures for genome assembly, mapping, variant calling and pangenome analysis;
Constraint-based modelling: intro & advanced topics
18-22 November 2019, Leiden
methods for constructing and analyzing genome-scale metabolic models.

Please visit the BioSB website for more details on teachers, dates, course contents etc.

We are also working hard on setting up two new core courses, which will be taught annually:

“Machine learning for bioinformatics & systems biology” and
“Modeling and optimization for bioinformatics & systems biology”.

Keep an eye on the newsletters and website for more information!

If you have news items or events that you would like to see announced in our updates or at our BioSB website, please send them to: education@biosb.nl.

Events & courses organized by BioSB and collaborators can be found in the BioSB Event calendar.

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