On 9/6/16, 11:09 AM, "Dunnebacke, Lisa (NIH/OD) [C]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Subject: PLOS Computational Biology Symposium
Date: Friday, September 16, 2016
Time: 9:30am - 4:00pm ET
Place: Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Bldg 35A, Rm 620, on the NIH
Bethesda campus.
For those unable to attend in person, the event will be webcast at:
https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=19639&bhcp=1.
Register here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WS5Y3BP
PLOS Computational Biology (http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/) invites
you to a Computational Biology Symposium on the NIH Campus. The Symposium will
be chaired by PLOS Editors-in-Chief Ruth Nussinov and Jason Papin and the
Journal’s Founding Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Philip Bourne (NIH/Associate Director
for Data Science). Keynote addresses will include: Dr. David J. Lipman,
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI); Dr. Jennifer
Lippincott-Schwartz, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development; and Dr. Bert Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins Medical
Institutes. The agenda also includes two discussion panels served by PLOS
Computational Biology editors from a range of fields. The morning panel will
discuss the “Biggest Challenges and Greatest Opportunities in Computational
Biology over the Next 10 Years”. The afternoon panel will discuss “How
Computational Biology Will Affect Human Health”.
The Symposium is open to all NIH/HHS staff and the wider community. Please
share this invitation with your scientific communities. For additional
information, contact [email protected].
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to
participate in this event should contact Sonynka Ngosso
([email protected]), 301-402-9816, and/or the Federal Relay,
1-800-877-8339.
