Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce the fourth summer school on "Quantitative Biology: Current concepts and tools for microbial strain and process developments", devised by former and current members of the Young Biotechnology Researchers Network of the DECHEMA (www.dechema.de) in collaboration with the Innovation Center Technologies for Health and Foods (IGE; www.ige.tu-berlin.de).

After the great success of the summer schools in 2009, 2010 and 2011, we decided to organize a summer school again, which will take in the heart of Berlin, 16-20 July 2012.

The summer school addresses both biologists and engineers during their PhD or PostDoc phase. Along the example of renewable resource conversion, biologists will learn how engineering approaches can help them in planning, performing and evaluating experiments, whereas engineers get insight into state-of-the-art measurement techniques that feed their models.

The course consists of formal lectures, workshops and tutorials for hands-on experience with state-of-the-art tools. Further information is available at http://kwi.dechema.de/kwi/en/QBio.html.

The deadline for registration is 11 June 2012, please use the registration form in the attachment.

With best regards,

Vera Meyer,
on behalf of the Dechema and the IGE