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The seminar is intended for scientists working in different fields and aims to share knowledge, inspire to new approaches and to discuss where and when modern animal-free research methods can be used, as well as the impact such methods can have on scientific validity. 

Themes are: in vitro (organs-on-a-chip), and in silico (modelling and AI) methodologies.

VIB is organizing its third edition on bioinformatics. (Intern-)national speakers will present their latest findings in applied bioinformatics in medical, agricultural, and biotechnological research.

Plenary sessions include:

• Microbial and plant genomics: from simple to complex
• Proteomics Structural and Bioinformatics
• Data integration, machine learning and networks
• Single Cell Bioinformatics

During this symposium scientists from different research areas will discuss the progress they have made on the molecular and genetic understanding of whole-organism physiology.

This practical course is tailored for PhD students and early PostDocs with prior expertise in one (or more) of the “omes”, and who are planning to perform multi-omics studies of microbiota.Through hands-on training, participants will have the opportunity to immediately apply the newly gained knowledge on different topics and techniques.

The aim of this conference is to close the gap in translational immunopathology. Clinicians, research scientists and industry partners are brought together to debate on the progress from bench to bedside.

The focus will be on precision medicine, starting from disease-oriented cases to lessons learned. Innovative and alternative therapeutic strategies in immune-mediated disorders will be presented, besides the regulatory challenges that companies and researchers are dealing with.

During this 6-days course, participants will take part in a series of lectures and group exercises focused on applied in vitro toxicology with real life case studies on how to incorporate data from in vitro test methods into regulatory safety evaluation of chemicals. Moreover, they will gain hands-on experience in skin and eye irritation testing in vitro as well as gastro-intestinal testing in vitro. 

This conference gathers different international stakeholders from research, regulatory bodies, industry, academics, and pediatricians to discuss future actions for:

• improving the development of time- efficient and human-relevant predictive in vitro DNT methods, and;
• boosting their use in the risk assessment regulatory decision-making process.

This course will provide you with an overview on the latest genomic technologies and bioinformatic tools. Lectures and practical sessions are foreseen for following topics: (i) experimental design, (ii) extraction of metagenomic DNA, (iii) construction of metagenomic libraries, (iv) single-cell microbial genomics, (v) 3rd generation sequencing and (vi) bioinformatic analysis of metagenomic data.