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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;color:rgb(33, 33, 33)">The Department of Informatics at King's College London annually</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;color:rgb(33, 33, 33)"> organises
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(52, 60, 62)"><span style="margin:0px">We are accepting abstract submissions (to be presented at MatBio) from students/early career researchers </span><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FWefikkg4aBx1N4qu8&data=04%7C01%7Czara.lim%40kcl.ac.uk%7Cdf8c6cfb688f4c0703d008d9529f6ac7%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0%7C0%7C637631666903456691%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=yMID4gUni09pBuNj53Mxwf1lTB3dNQnKKjyza7ETTLU%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="VerificationFailed" shash="MOjmjICuDibLYZ63WmmK09e1kW8THEy30qzAWrWVT5HTNZdi6PXXgLnixrRPuadXz+zTpkHr7IgAOKQVFnK0PwLUsg54SYtJCaCB5uPZxA5yQUQ7LBDk7+fMGesU8PpZHdw24LsJJd0lGu/N/z/WO8DnaExkI1c4WIO27iwZigE=" title="" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">here</span></a><span style="margin:0px">. <span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(33, 33, 33);text-align:left">Selected
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international ImMunoGeneTics information system (</span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Segoe UI", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">IMGT)</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Segoe UI", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"><b>Dr Leena Salmela</b>, Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki</span></li></ul>
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