Symposium of the Polish Bioinformatics Society

On September 13-15, 2023, the scientific conference: Symposium of the Polish Bioinformatics Society was held at the “Mrowisko” Student Culture Centre. The event was organized by the Department of Computer Networks and Systems and the Department of Data Science and Engineering of the Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science and the Polish Bioinformatics Society. 

The symposium is an annual scientific event organized in leading Polish bioinformatics centres, addressed mainly to young scientists. The main goal of the event is to integrate the scientific bioinformatics community and create a forum for exchanging experiences and discussing the latest research in this field. The priority of the meeting was to strengthen contacts between Polish scientific institutes and enable the Polish scientific community to exchange views with recognized foreign scientific authorities.

This year, the symposium was co-organized by the Silesian University of Technology and gathered almost 100 participants from the most important Polish bioinformatics centres in Poland, and also hosted five invited lecturers from leading Polish and foreign bioinformatics and computational biology laboratories.

Detailed information can be found on the event page: https://sympozjum.ptbi.org.pl/

The event was held under the patronage of the Rector of the Silesian University of Technology and the Priority Research Area POB1 - Computational oncology and personalized medicine.