We are happy to announce the 1st Swiss Image-Based Screening Conference. We would like to encourage all researchers connected to Image-Based Screening to apply. This Conference aims to bring together scientists in Switzerland performing or interested in high content RNAi and chemical screening campaigns. This first edition of the Swiss Image-Based Screening Conference, the SIBS2010, will take place at the EPFL on Setember 28th-29th, 2010 in Room SV1717A (SV building). This two-day event is structured around thematic sessions covering essential multidisciplinary elements for performing large screening campaigns from the design of a biological screening assay to image/data analysis.

• Swiss academic screening projects
• Status of other European Centers
• HCS - Pharma research in Switzerland
• Innovative screening formats
• Image, data analysis and statistics
• Database and workflow solutions

For more information and to register, please visit: http://sibs2010.epfl.ch/

Looking forward to meet you at the Conference.

Organization committee & Scientific committee:

• Gerardo Turcatti EPFL
• Peter Kunszt ; SyBIT
• Ela Hunt; SyBIT
• Peter Horvath; ETHZ
• Pauli Rämö; ETHZ
• Berd Rinn, ETHZ
• Andreas Vonderheit, ETHZ