The Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences' registrations are open!

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Dear colleague, The 4th edition of Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences will take place on 10-11 March 2022 in Leuven, Belgium and we want to inform you that the registrations are open! ABLS22 will highlight recent developments in bioinformatics research, and will showcase its impact in medical, agricultural, and biotechnological research. If you're flying in from abroad, you can apply for a travel grant as VIB offers 5 travel grants to international attendees. Register here Check out the speaker lineup As bioinformatics has quickly become an integral part of life sciences research, we are bringing together 18 experts in the field who will shed light on their approaches: Stephanie Hicks - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, US Wout Bittremieux - University of California San Diego, US and University of Antwerp, BE Stein Aerts - VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, BE Britta Velten - German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), DE & Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK Julio Saez-Rodriguez - Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine, & Heidelberg University Hospital, DE Niko Beerenwinkel - ETH Zurich, CH Norman Davey - Institute Of Cancer Research, London, UK Smita Krishnaswamy - Yale School of Medicine, US Anshul Kundaje - Stanford University, US Anna Kreshuk - EMBL, DE Florian Jug - MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, DE Raphaël Marée - ULiege, BE Catalina Vallejos - MRC Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK Cyril Pommier - INRAE, FR Bart Ghesquière - KU Leuven, BE Martin Jones - The Francis Crick Institute, UK Joris Roels - VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, BE Emma Schymanski - University of Luxembourg, LU Learn more about the invited speakers Get on stage next to the experts As we want to offer junior researchers the opportunity to present their work to the audience, we foresee slots in the plenary program for selected talks. This edition, we're happy to announce that we will offer 6 selected speaker slots! Submit your abstract now to get a chance to showcase your research. Submit your abstract We are looking forward to meet you in person! Kind regards, Evy Vierstraete Organizing Committee: Alexander Botzki - VIB Bioinformatics Core, BE Laurent Gatto - De Duve Institute – UC Louvain, BE Saskia Lippens - VIB Bioimaging Core, UGent, BE Célia Miguel - University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences & BioISI, PT Mainak Guharoy - VIB Bioinformatics Core, BE Yvan Saeys - VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, BE Evy Vierstraete - Science Events Manager VIB, BE