[BioC] Workshop on Statistical Challenges and Biomedical Applications of Deep Sequencing Data

[Darlene Goldstein]

[Apologies in advance if you receive multiple copies of this email]

This is to announce and invite your participation in a workshop on  
Statistical Challenges and Biomedical Applications of Deep Sequencing  
Data, to be held from 5-10 June 2011 at 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 a relaxed and collegial  
atmosphere.

Confirmed invited speakers include:
Michael Brudno (University of Toronto), Chris Greenman (Sanger  
Institute), Willi Gruissem (ETH Zurich), Sunduz Keles (University of  
Wisconsin-Madison), John Marioni (EBI), Sach Mukherjee (University of  
Warwick), Ben Raphael (Brown University), Simon Tavare (Cancer  
Research UK), Amalio Telenti (University of Lausanne), with others  
still pending.

Contributed presentations will also be welcome.

More details and pre-registration instructions are available at
http://www.cbg.ethz.ch/news/ascona2011
We strongly encourage pre-registration, in previous years places have  
filled up quickly.

Niko Beerenwinkel
Darlene Goldstein
Peter Bühlmann

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Darlene Goldstein
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Institut de mathématiques
Bâtiment MA, Station 8        Tel: +41 21 693 0528
CH-1015 Lausanne              Fax: +41 21 693 4303
SWITZERLAND