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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(52, 60, 62); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" class="">We would like to invite you to the <b class="">3rd Student Conference on Mathematical Foundations in Bioinformatics</b> (MatBio), which will be taking
place at<b class=""> King's College London </b>on <b class="">2nd August 2018</b>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(52, 60, 62);" class=""> Register to attend </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLScqA1Gk7Iuy6YhcSztXubk5POZCK8DTiBe4zuWiOvFHQVbgAQ%2Fviewform&data=01%7C01%7Csteven.watts%40kcl.ac.uk%7Ce557d9bbc7b543b40ddf08d5e748928a%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=tLvFRfB22UHVWQ7KwyEhk%2B%2FCzsmVYBQwhMOJX124PIY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="Original URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqA1Gk7Iuy6YhcSztXubk5POZCK8DTiBe4zuWiOvFHQVbgAQ/viewform
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">The aim of this conference is to encourage collaboration between early stage pioneers in the field and showcase applications of combinatorics, statistics and general mathematical principles to solving problems in bioinformatics.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Keynote speakers include:</span></div>
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Prof. Rolf Apweiler,</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> Co-Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Prof. Alberto Paccanaro, </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Professor in Machine Learning and Computational Biology at Royal Holloway, University of London</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Dr. Dimitris Polychronopoulos,</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> Data Scientist at Genomics England</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Each session of this one-day conference will feature an invited talk followed by oral presentations by students. Coffee breaks will provide the opportunity to network; lunch will be provided in a local restaurant. <b class="">The
full programme has now been published </b><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnms.kcl.ac.uk%2Finformatics%2Fevents%2FMatBio2018%2Fprogramme.html&data=01%7C01%7Csteven.watts%40kcl.ac.uk%7Ce557d9bbc7b543b40ddf08d5e748928a%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=jxlxo9Sdl%2BgOs88WM7NCGD7%2BVtQ%2BMUEHbx5VBSPrKJ4%3D&reserved=0" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk581168" previewremoved="true">here</a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">MatBio 2018 is kindly sponsored by Repositive and Seven Bridges Genomics.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></div>
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">For full details please visit</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnms.kcl.ac.uk%2Finformatics%2Fevents%2FMatBio2018%2F&data=01%7C01%7C%7Cbccc10b8c36247f462d108d5dac2dec6%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=2opH%2BNkytT8kh30Wq%2B1vJmtdNCA6ol69QnDCQldXF6Q%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPlnk202916" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/informatics/events/MatBio2018/</span></a>.<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="">Kind regards,</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="">Miznah & Steven</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">Miznah AlShammary, Co-Chair</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">Steven Watts, Co-Chair</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">Organising Committee</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">Mathematical Foundations in Bioinformatics (MatBio) 2018</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">Algorithms & Data Analysis Group</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""></span></div>
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