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Dear AIMMS colleagues,

I would like to come back briefly to our second AIMMS Annual Meeting. Around 120 persons attended this Annual Meeting: KC 159 was filled with PhD-students, MSc-students, post-docs and staff. They listened to excellent presentations of three external keynote lectures in the morning (Prof. Russel, Nijmegen, Dr. Hoffman Wurzburg and Dr. Breukink, Utrecht) and the final end-of-the-day keynote speaker: Prof. Wuite, FEW-Physics).

Next to the poster competition, with 35 posters, there was a PhD competition for oral contributions. Each of the 15 Chairs of AIMMS were asked to propose one PhD-student and six were ultimately selected by the AIMMS Management Team to present their results. The audience scored via iPadsthe six candidates and the result appeared to be so close that (exceptionally) two winners were identified: Jan Simon Boerma (Molecular Toxicology) and Ingeborg Petterson (BioMolecular Spectroscopy). Poster award winners were: Chimed Jansen (Medicinal Chemistry), Sabrina de Munnik (Target and Systems Biochemistry) and Johan van Heerden (Systems Bioinformatics).

Not planned, but nevertheless MSc-student Yves Revi was awarded for his excellent role in post-lecture discussions. The awards were handed out by Prof. Hubertus Irth (Dean FEW) and Prof. Bauke Oudega (Dean FALW).

The day was closed off with a nice buffet diner and drinks served by the VCSVU students. In my view, all together a very successful and animated second AIMMS Annual Meeting, both scientifically and socially. I look forward to the next one.

Finally, I also like to thank to the work of Jacqueline van Muijlwijk, Miep Smits and Laura de Wit, responsible for the organizational aspects of this meeting.

Nico Vermeulen.
Director AIMMS

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