Core facilities meeting in Ghent

[Chris Guerin-2]

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Dear Colleagues:

        After two successful editions of the CTLS conference (at Institut Pasteur, Paris in 2014 and at EMBL, Heidelberg in 2016 <http://www.ctls-org.eu/ctls-congresses/past-congress/>), VIB is honoured to organize the 2018 conference in the beautiful and historic city of Ghent.
Over the 4 days of the conference there will be plenary and parallel sessions focusing on all facets of core facility operations, management and specific technologies of interest to core facility staff. Keynote talks will be given by 2001 Nobel laureate Paul Nurse, Frances Weis-Garcia (President of ABRF) and Kurt Vandenberghe, Director of Policy Development and Coordination, European Commission, Directorate-General for R&I. Poster sessions will be held to allow core scientists to present new developments in their technologies and a core facility marketplace area will also be available for facilities to promote their expertise and services. In addition a jobs corner will post open core positions and career advisory consultations will be available for those wishing to learn about how to become an expert scientist.  A Belgian beer tasting, guided boat trip through the city’s canals and conference dinner in the old fish market will highlight the social program.

CTLS2018@VIB aims to offer core facility staff and those interested in careers as expert scientists an opportunity to learn, network and forge alliances to strengthen core facility science throughout Europe.

The topics that will be discussed are:

 Big data

 Emerging model systems

 Core facilities career paths

 Data management

 Single cell technologies

 Rigor and reproducibility

 Integrating infrastructures

 CF interactions with government, clients, institutions and each other

For the full program and other details please go to https://vibconferences.be/event/ctls2018vib
Early bird registration closes on May 19th and the abstract deadline for those wishing to present at the congress is May 1st. Members of the CTLS association receive a significant discount on their registration costs and 4 travel bursaries are available for students and early career scientists. For full details please go to http://www.ctls-org.eu/ctls-congresses/ctls-2018/.

We hope to see you in July in Ghent.

On behalf of the organizing committee,

Chris Guérin, Senior Expert Scientist, Ghent Bioimaging Core, VIB, BE

Nick Berrow, Core Facility Manager, Institute For Research in Biomedicine, ES
Alex Botzki, Head of the Bioinformatics Core, VIB, BE
Stefaan Derveaux, Head of the Nucleomics Core, VIB, BE
Patrick England, Head of Biophysics of Macromolecules and their Interactions, Institut Pasteur, FR
Francis Impens, Head of the Proteomics Core, VIB, BE
Spencer Shorte, Group Leader, Plateforme d'Imagerie Dynamique and Director, Imagopole, FR
Achim Treumann, Director, NUPPA (Newcastle University Protein and Proteome Analysis), UK
Elena Trovesi, Head of Finance, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, DE
Geert Van Minnebruggen, Head of Core Facilities, VIB, BE
Evy Vierstraete, Science Events Manager, VIB, BE

PS. We would greatly appreciate it if you would also forward this to your colleagues working in non-microscopy core facilities