We would like to announce and invite your participation in a workshop on Statistical Challenges in Single-Cell Biology, held from April 30 to May 5, 2017, at Villa Monte Verità, Ascona, on Lago Maggiore and in the foothills of the Alps in Switzerland. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together participants from statistics, computational sciences, bioinformatics and biology, and to encourage interaction in a informal and collegial atmosphere.

Confirmed invited speakers: Petra Dittrich (ETH Zurich), Nicolas Aceto (University of Basel), Smita Krishnaswamy (Yale School of Medicine), Oliver Stegle (EMBL/EBI Cambridge), Peter Kharchenko (Harvard Medical School), John Marioni (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge), Nick Navin  (MD Anderson), Kobi Benenson (ETH Zurich), Magnus Rattray (University of Manchester), Prisca Liberali (FMI Basel), Takashi Hiiragi (EMBL), Valérie Taly (Paris Descartes).

We welcome your submissions for proposals for contributed presentations
More details are available at https://www.bsse.ethz.ch/cbg/cbg-news/ascona-2017.html

Registration to the workshop and submission of abstracts opens in October 2016.

Niko Beerenwinkel
Peter Bühlmann
Wolfgang Huber