[Bioc-devel] Ascona Workshop 2017: Call for abstracts

[Wolfgang Huber]

Ascona Workshop 2017 -- Statistical Challenges in Single-Cell Biology

Abstract Submission now open!

We would like to announce and invite your participation in a workshop on Statistical Challenges in Single-Cell Biology, to be held from April 30 to May 5, 2017, at Monte Verità, Ascona, in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together participants from statistics, computational sciences, bioinformatics and biology, and to encourage interaction in an informal and cooperative atmosphere.

Confirmed invited speakers: Nicolas Aceto (University of Basel), Kobi Benenson (ETH Zurich), Bernd Bodenmiller (University of Zurich), Petra Dittrich (ETH Zurich), Raphael Gottardo (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), Takashi Hiiragi (EMBL Heidelberg), Peter Kharchenko (Harvard Medical School), Smita Krishnaswamy (Yale School of Medicine), Prisca Liberali (FMI Basel), John Marioni (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge), Nick Navin  (MD Anderson), Magnus Rattray (University of Manchester), Oliver Stegle (EMBL-EBI Hinxton), Valérie Taly (Paris Descartes)

We welcome your submissions for proposals for contributed presentations. All abstract submissions must be made online through the following form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUoJY3HMI4FPAS4knXww3y-wA_OG_uMPVzwA070o7AfnRXEg/viewform

Application closes January 15, 2017. Notifications will be sent by January 30, 2017. More details are available at https://www.bsse.ethz.ch/cbg/cbg-news/ascona-2017.html

Niko Beerenwinkel
Peter Bühlmann
Wolfgang Huber