Close to three hundred participants from academia and industry joined us during the two-day BioSB 2020 conference on October 27 and 28. This year’s edition has been different in many ways. Topics covered many aspects of life science research and ranged from microbial evolution to machine learning & AI and precision medicine. Read more The conference…
The selection committee of the BioSB Young Investigator Award 2020 has unanimously selected this year’s award winner! The winner is: Jasmijn Baaijens (Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston). Jasmijn started her PhD in bioinformatics at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the group of Prof. Alexander Schönhuth. Her PhD research focused on algorithm development for reconstruction and analysis of…
We are very excited to announce that this year’s BioSB 2020 conference on October 27 and 28 will also take place online. Besides the in-person program that we had planned, we are now organizing a parallel online program. This way, we can accommodate more people to this year’s BioSB conference and, should conditions deteriorate, switch…
You can now nominate a young researcher for the BioSB Young Investigator Award 2020 (11th edition). The award will be given to a promising young researcher in the bioinformatics or systems biology field. The award will be presented during the BioSB 2020 conference on April 21st. The winner will receive a voucher of 500 Euros sponsored…
The call for abstracts for the BioSB 2020 conference is open. Abstracts can be submitted on a number of bioinformatics and systems biology topics. Final abstract deadline is February 15, 2020. Submission topics: Single cell biology Genome regulation Comparative genomics and population genetics 3D bioinformatics and Functional prediction Metabolism Immune bioinformatics & systems biology Precision…
On April 21 and 22, 2020 we are organizing the 6th edition of the BioSB conference: BioSB 2020 at conference center De Werelt in Lunteren. BioSB 2020 offers a 2-day programme that will be highly diverse, featuring keynote lectures, parallel thematic sessions, poster sessions, and an entertaining evening programme with lots of opportunities for networking.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The 5th edition of the Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference will be organised on April 2 and 3, 2019 at the congrescentrum De Werelt in Lunteren. The BioSB 2019 conference discusses the latest developments in bioinformatics, systems and computational biology and interrelated disciplines, and their wide-ranging applications in life sciences & health, agriculture, food & nutrition. The conference…
On Tuesday December 4th RSG Netherlands/Young CB together with the BioSB Education committee organize a soft skill event on Efficient Supervision. The event is open for students and young researchers in bioinformatics and systems biology. Join if you would like to improve your interpersonal communication and supervisory skills! Program: Dick de Ridder (Wageningen UR): ‘How to…
Are you a young scientist with a background in the life sciences or a related research field and do you have a creative and inquisitive mind? Do you like to think outside-the-box? Do you want to meet new people from other disciplines, including mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering? If yes, apply now for the fifth…
Professor Ilja Arts (Maastricht University) and Professor Natal van Riel (TU Eindhoven, AMC) will organise a workshop ‘Modelling Human Metabolism’ at the DTL Communities@Work conference on 2 October 2018 in Utrecht. The BioSB research school and the Netherlands Metabolomics Centre are involved as co-organisers. The Netherlands has a large and strong community of researchers that are involved in mechanistic…
The 4th edition of the Netherlands Bioinformatics and Systems Biology conference took place on 15-16 May 2018 in Lunteren. With its programme packed with inspiring keynote lectures and parallel sessions, the conference attracted more than 400 researchers and students from Dutch universities, UMCs, and companies. You can now visit the conference report and photo impression.…
Registration is now open for the BioSB course Algorithms for Biological Networks (5th edition) which will be held on June 25-29, 2018 in Wageningen. The course is aimed at PhD students with a background in bioinformatics, computer science or a related field; a working knowledge of basic statistics and linear algebra is assumed. Course description…
On 26-31 August 2018, BioSB, ELIXIR-NL, LUMC, ELIXIR-BE, and VIB will organise the first Belgian-Dutch Transcriptomics Summer School in Leuven, Belgium. Applications are open! This year there is not a separate BioSB RNAseq course but we have partnered up with VIB in Belgium to organise the course during a Summer School in Leuven, Belgium. The…
The Netherlands Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Research School (BioSB) and DTL will intensify their collaboration from 2018 onwards. Dr Patrick Kemmeren of the BioSB Board: “There is substantial overlap between the stakeholders that are active in BioSB and DTL, yet the organisations have complementary scopes and activities. We have always collaborated, but we have now…
The call for the BioSB Young Investigator Award 2018 is now open. Are you the next winner of the award? The winner will receive a prize of 500 Euro during the award ceremony at the BioSB 2018 conference on May 16th. He or she will also give a honorary lecture in the plenary programme. The…