Dear young researcher,

RSG Netherlands is organizing an exciting and fun filled PubQuiz on
November 2nd in Nijmegen.
The quiz will span questions from different areas of Bioinformatics and
also from general areas, movies and songs.
Meet fellow young researchers and increase the horizon of your social
network in the world of Bioinformatics.
You can register by simply replying to this e-mail!

With kind regards,
RSG Netherlands

Dear young researcher,

We would like to invite you to our second Company Visit of the Regional Student Group Netherlands. On September 16th, we will visit Genetwister, an innovative biotechnology company, which was founded in 1998. Initially their focus was marker discovery for diagnostics and tool development for genetic modification, but over the years this shifted and expanded towards high throughput marker discovery and practical application and development of both genomic breeding and green biotechnology tools. The accumulating information on biomarker, genetics and gene expression databases required the development of advanced software for data storage, data analysis and visualization. Therefore a bioinformatics group was established in 2004. For more information you can find in the attachments a short profile of Genetwister. During our visit we will learn more about the work that is done in this company with an emphasize on the role of Bioinformatics. We will close of our visits with drinks in a nearby pub and there will the possibility to join for dinner as well.

This visit provides the unique opportunity to get an inside look at this innovative biotechnology company!

Time and Location
Time: September 16th, starting from 14:00 onwards
Location: Genetwister: Nieuwe Kanaal 7b, 6709PA, Wageningen
Directions: http://www.genetwister.nl/contacteng.html

Registration is required, so please reply to this e-mail in order to do so!
For those interested in joining us for dinner afterwards (at your own costs), please need us know as well.

Hope to see you there,
RSG-Netherlands

Dear young researcher!

You are cordially invited to join this year's RSG retreat for young scientists in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology organized by the Regional Student Group (RSG) Netherlands. Our retreat precedes the NBIC conference and provides a good start for this event by giving you the chance to get to know other young researchers in the field and to initiate scientific discussion.

During the retreat there will be a workshop “Getting Funded” given by Professor Ritsert Jansen, who will give us valuable insights, tips and tricks on how to write successful research proposals.

Furthermore, Professor Phil Bourne, Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology, author of over 200 articles and 5 books and co-founder of 4 companies, will give a talk about his career path. This is an excellent opportunity to ask questions in this more informal setting.

Date: Monday, April 18th
Place: Congrescentrum De Werelt, Lunteren

Program
13:45 – 14:00 Registration
14:00 – 14:30 Welcome and round of introductions
14:30 – 16:00 Workshop “Getting Funded” - part 1
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 Workshop “Getting Funded” - part 2
17:30 – 18:30 CV talk by Professor Phil Bourne
19:00 – 21:30 Dinner at the pancake restaurant “Het Uilenbos”
21:30 onwards Drinks in the Werelt

You can register for the retreat together with your registration for the NBIC conference. It is also possible to only register for the retreat. If you have already registered to the NBIC conference, but not to the retreat please send an e-mail to femke.francissen@nbic.nl. Registration costs are 50 Euros. This covers all expenses, i.e. workshop, dinner and overnight stay in a shared room. If you don't need accommodation, the registration fee is 30 Euros.

More information is available at http://www.nbic.nl/about-nbic/nbic-conferences/nbic-conference-2011.

We hope to see you at the retreat,

RSG Netherlands

Dear young researcher,

Do you want to know what it takes to make a good poster?
Going for the poster-prize at upcoming conferences?
Hear the do’s and don’t at our next BioCafé on March 14th in Utrecht (near central station).

Marco Mokfrom DM Creative Communicatie will show us how to design an attractive scientific poster while paying attention to fonts, colors and images.
Bring your own poster! We will finish this event by discussing each others work.

Registration for this event is required, so please send us an e-mail (rsg-netherlands@iscbsc.org) with your name, institute and
whether you want come and eat dinner with us after the BioCafé. The first round of drinks will be at our costs.

For more details see the flyer.

Please feel free to spread the word by printing the flyer and putting it up in your workspace or by forwarding this announcement by e-mail.

This BioCafé is sponsored by Celgene.

Hope to CU there!

RSG Netherlands
the network for young scientists in the field of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

The Regional Student Group Netherlands presents its first Company
Visit to an innovative genomics cancer diagnostics company. Agendia
uses its knowledge and expertise in the application of clinically useful
gene expression profiling to facilitate breast cancer diagnosis. Agendia
developed a FDA approved MammaPrint breast cancer test that is
used to determine a patient’s risk of metastases.

The company visit will consist of an introductory talk giving insight into
the company and especially into the role of Bioinformatics at Agendia.
Afterwards we will have a first hand look during a site visit, followed by
a drink. Please send an email to register.

Location: Science Park 406, 1098 XH Amsterdam

***** This event has been postponed, a new dat will be announced soon ****

Illustrations in scientific publications tremendously help in clarifying complex biological systems. Think about nature covers, textbooks and 3D visualizations.

RogierTrompert is an artist specialized in Scientific Illustration.Tromperthas worked for several scientist, pharmaceutical companies and publishers combining his artistic skills with (3D) MRI and CT imaging techniques to make the perfect illustration.
http://www.medical-art.nl/website.htm

In this BioCafé there will also be a Tips ’n Tricks session by a professional publisher on how to pimp your thesis.

Registration for this event is required, so please send us an e-mail (rsg-netherlands@iscbsc.org) with your name, institute and whether you want come and eat dinner with us after the BioCafe.

Title: How to get a Nature Cover
Date: Thursday, 24th of June at 16:00 h
Location: Poort van Kleef, Mariaplaats 7, Utrecht

Preceding this year's NBIC conference, the Regional Student Group (RSG) Netherlands, a network for young scientists in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, organizes a PhD retreat. The goal of the retreat is to initiate and stimulate scientific discussion as well as collaboration between PhD students. We will have a workshop on “Theater Skills for Presenting Science”, an opportunity for you to present your work in an elevator pitch, and social activities like dart and Wii tournaments.

When: Sunday, March 28
Where: Congrescentrum De Werelt, Lunteren

Programme

13:45 Registration
14:00-14:30 Welcome
14:30-17:00 Workshop “Theater Skills for Presenting Science”, Part 1
17:00-17:30 Poster elevator pitches Part 1
17:30-19:00 Dinner
19:00-20:00 Workshop “Theater Skills for Presenting Science” Part 2
20:00-20:30 Poster elevator pitches Part 2
20:30-22:00 Social Event: Wii and darts tournament

You can register for the retreat together with your registration for the NBIC conference. Registration costs are 50 euro; this includes the retreat and the overnight stay in a double room. A single room costs additional 30 euros. You can find more information at http://www.nbic.nl/about-nbic/nbic-conferences/nbic-conference-2010/nbic... .

For the elevator pitch, please provide us with a Powerpoint slide about the poster you will be presenting at the NBIC Conference. You can also make a slide of the complete poster, as long as it is fairly readable. This slide can be submitted through the registration form.

Hope to see you at the retreat,

RSG-Netherlands

*** Sorry, registration for this event is closed ***

Location: BioCafé in the restaurant L’Industrie, Rue Saint-Gilles 6
Start: 17:30h

The Regional Student Group (RSG) Netherlands, the network for young scientists in the field of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, invites you to a lecture and PubQuiz on the Sunday evening preceding BBC 2009 (December 13th).

The scientific part will consist of a lecture by Lodewyk Wessels in the field of Cancer Research. Directly following this presentation, we have a PubQuiz with questions related to bioinformatics as well as general categories! Free dinner and drinks will be provided!

You can register for this event by selecting 'yes' for the 'BioCafé for young researcher' on the registration form for BBC. We have a limit of 50 participants!

For more information feel free to contact us at: rsg-netherlands ''at'' iscbsc.org

Hope to see you all soon,

RSG-Netherlands

This event is sponsored by EMBRACE.

Invited talks by Nils Gehlenborg (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~nils) from the European Bioinformatics Institute, UK on the topic of visualizing large datasets and Michel Westenberg from Eindhoven University of Technology on the topic of visualizing biological networks.

16:00 - 16:30 Welcome
16:30 - 17:15 Nils Gehlenborg “Exploring Biological High-Throughput Data”
17:15 - 17:30 Short Break 
17:30 - 18:15 Michel A. Westenberg “Visualization of biological networks”
18:15 - 18:30 Visualization QuickFire ->Show off your work!
18:30 - 19:00 Drinks
19:00 Dinner

RSG Netherlands invites you to BioCafé
“Valorisation: The Value of your research”
June 11th 16:00, Utrecht

During this BioCafé experts will discuss crucial issues involved in the transfer of technology. Not only how to transfer of technology into economically fit products or companies. But also more generally how to distribute your research for others to use.

16:00 Opening.
16:10 Ruben Kok “Valorisation, a definition”
16:30 Barend Mons: Valorisation by means of Open Source.
16:50 Break and extension (with beer)
17:10 Henk-Jan Joosten: An example from practice
17:30 Steef Blok: Valorisation from the perspective of the TTO
18:00 Discussion Panel
18:30 Closing with (additional) drinks and informal discussion
19:00 Dinner

Registration for this event is required, so please send us an e-mail (rsg-netherlands@iscbsc.org) with your name, institute and whether you want come and eat dinner with us after the BioCafé.

What: RSG BioCafé
Where: Café Poort van Kleef (above Grand Café Carré), Mariaplaats 7, Utrecht
When: June 11th, 16:00

Spread the word and CU there!