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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt">We would like to invite you to the <b>4th Student Conference on Mathematical Foundations in Bioinformatics</b> (MatBio), which will be taking place at<b> King's College London</b> on <b>5th July 2019</b>. Please register</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt"> to
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt"></span><b><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; color:black">Prof. Veli Makinen,</span></b><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; color:black"> </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; color:black">Professor
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<b><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; color:black">For full details please visit</span></b><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; color:black"> </span><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnms.kcl.ac.uk%2Finformatics%2Fevents%2FMatBio2018%2F&data=01%7C01%7Coluwole.ajala%40kcl.ac.uk%7C8ce7e5ab392442476bff08d6c7d4984e%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=Zs9D3OLeA3638Z4cZYAcBRmM4PsWPPK2oePmVY4alrM%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" originalsrc="https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/informatics/events/MatBio2018/" title="" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt"></span></a><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnms.kcl.ac.uk%2Finformatics%2Fevents%2FMatBio2019%2F&data=01%7C01%7Coluwole.ajala%40kcl.ac.uk%7C8ce7e5ab392442476bff08d6c7d4984e%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=ONnJOHzkUYIUENU1sateLZ0317gTZt8zvGXVHoyVEhE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" originalsrc="https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/informatics/events/MatBio2019/" title="" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; color:black">https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/informatics/events/MatBio2019/</span></a><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; color:black">.</span></p>
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