Bioinformatics Barcelona and Catalan Society of Biology bring together bioinformatics community in Catalonia
The event, on 22 November, will present the new initiatives, BiB and the Computational Biology Section of the SCB, that are working to make the most of the country’s potential in bioinformatics and molecular biology.
By Biocat
The Catalan Society of Biology (SCB) and the Bioinformatics Barcelona platform (BiB) are holding the first Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Session on 22 November in Barcelona in order to bring together the whole bioinformatics community in Catalonia.
Catalonia has a strong critical mass of researchers in bioinformatics and of top-notch technology platforms like the National Genome Analysis Center (CNAG) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). This has generated a favorable context for the development of bioinformatics and computational biology that can put the country on the cutting edge of these disciplines. Two initiatives were launched in 2013, the Computational Biology Section of the SCB, coordinated by Roderic Guigó, and the BiB platform, which aims to bring together the scientific community working in this field and find coordination mechanisms to more effectively take advantage of existing potential.
Both of these initiatives will be presented at the session this Friday. From the BiB, Anna Ripoll and Ferran Sanz, executive president and scientific director respectively, will present the mission of this platform devoted to promoting the importance of bioinformatics in the Barcelona area on a global level. BiB has been located at the BSC-CNS since mid-February 2013, when it was created through an agreement between the rectors of three Catalan universities and representatives from 12 research institutions in the biosciences, including Biocat.
There will also be a program of short talks structured into four sessions, featuring noteworthy experts like Patrik Aloy, ICREA researcher and head of the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology group at IRB Barcelona; Leonardo Pardo, head of the Computational Medicine research group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB); Jordi Villà-Freixa, director of the Polytechnic School at the University of Vic; and Arcadi Navarro, ICREA professor at the Pompeu Fabra University Evolutionary Biology Institute (IBE-CSIC-UPF).
The RBA Foundation, Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC), Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and BSC-CNS have collaborated to make this session possible.
Date: 22 November 2013
Time: 9 am to 6:45 pm
Place: RBA Foundation • Av. Diagonal, 189 • Barcelona (map)
More information is available on the BiB website.
Questions: bioinformatics.barcelona@bsc.eu