Together with a bunch of PhD students from the College of Life Sciences at University of Dundee I organized the PiCLS symposium 2014. My main task was to develop the website, which I did with wordpress.
The event was a great success and featured several high profile scientists covering many areas of research such as molecular biology and plant sciences. Everyone seemed to have enjoyed the event, even the speakers were please with way things went!
Many thanks to the @PiCLSSymposium organising committee. pic.twitter.com/kHlb9DxrS3
— Nicola J Patron (@nicolabiologist) June 13, 2014More interest to me was the fact that we manage to convince Dr. Ewan Birney, which is the Associate Director of the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), to come be our plenary speaker. It was a great pleasure to meet him, and as you can see I was really excited to hear him bash R hard.
"All the cool kids code in Python" and "R is annoying" @ewanbirney - I agree :D
— Fábio Madeira (@biomadeira) June 13, 2014