BioSB research school

The Netherlands Bioinformatics and Systems Biology research school (BioSB) is the national platform in which the Dutch community of researchers in bioinformatics and systems biology is organized. BioSB also organizes:

  1. fundamental and advanced post-graduate courses
  2. the yearly BioSB conference
  3. hot topics meetings

The aim of the BioSB research school is to offer PhD students, postdocs and senior researchers a vibrant environment for their scientific development as well as education in bioinformatics and systems biology. In addition, BioSB acts as a parent organization for YoungCB, the official Regional Student Group (RSG) of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB).

New BioSB board member: Ilja Arts

During the BioSB member’s meeting at the BioSB 2019 conference the nomination of Ilja Arts as new board member was approved. She will replace Barbara Bakker, who stepped back after being member of the board from the beginning of BioSB. Ilja Arts is Professor of Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases at Maastricht University, Scientific Director…

Continue reading →

BioSB 2019

Eva Brinkman winner of the BioSB Young Investigator Award 2019

The selection committee of the BioSB Young Investigator Award 2019 has selected this year’s award winner! The winner is: Eva Brinkman (SciLifeLab, Stockholm, Sweden). Eva joined the group of Prof. dr. Bas van Steensel at the Netherlands Cancer Institute Antoni van Leeuwenhoek in Amsterdam for a PhD study. As a spin-off of her research, the TIDE and TIDER software…

BioSB 2019

BioSB 2019: Call for Abstracts

You can now submit an abstract for one of the parallel sessions or poster/demo presentation during the BioSB 2019 conference on April 2-3 2019 in Lunteren. The main programme of the conference will feature several parallel sessions and one HotTopic session that will be filled via abstract selection. You can submit an abstract for an…

BioSB 2019

BioSB 2019: Call for breakout sessions

Following the success of last year’s BioSB 2018 breakout sessions, we are happy to announce a new call! If you have an interesting idea for a workshop or session during our annual conference, we will arrange for a room, an audience and a nice environment. All sessions will be planned on the second day of…

Event

Communication in Life: brand new life sciences congress

Together with almost twenty researchers, all from different disciplines, NWO is organising the very first edition of Life on 28 and 29 May 2019 in Bunnik: a brand new, unique, national congress covering the Dutch Life Sciences in the widest sense of the word, from femtometer to kilometer, from cell to planet. Life is meant…