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Subject: MIDAS Meeting, May 23-24, 2016 - Seeking your participation Description: Students are welcome to participate in the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) annual meeting if this program is of interest to you. Please find the registration for in-person attendance here: https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1816810 , there is no fee to register. The NIGMS supports the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) program which is a collaboration of research groups to develop computational models of the interactions between infectious agents and their hosts, disease spread, prediction systems and response strategies. Towards this program, we usually organize a MIDAS annual meeting, and the 2016 MIDAS Annual Network Meeting is scheduled on Monday and Tuesday, May 23rd and 24th, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency, 1800 Presidents street, Reston, VA. This annual meeting provides an opportunity for the researchers, public health officials, and policy makers to interact one another. Usually, investigators highlight their scientific progress and interesting findings at their sites via the break-out sessions of short talks, along with the poster presentations and outreach activity. For the outreach activity, we usually invite under-represented students, ranging from high school to graduate studies. This provides an excellent opportunity for the students to get exposure with various programs and to meet with relevant investigators. Needless to say, the outreach activity program is highly regarded. Though this meeting sounds like disease focused, most of the presentations are loaded with solving the public health problems, particularly, manipulating the data. Please take a look at our current MIDAS programs: https://www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/SpecificAreas/MIDAS/Pages/default.aspx . Veerasamy “Ravi” Ravichandran, Ph.D. Program Director Biomedical Technology, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Division National Institute of General Medical Sciences National Institutes of Health, Bld 45, Room 2AN12M 45 Center Drive, MSC 6200 Bethesda, Maryland 20892-6200 301-451-9822 (phone) 301-480-0884 (fax) [log in to unmask] Contact Person: Veerasamy “Ravi” Ravichandran, Ph.D. Contact Email: [log in to unmask]