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Being close to the border between Europe and Africa, Granada has experienced diverse cultural influences over the centuries. This is reflected in tourist attractions that include the Alhambra (an Arab medieval citadel), the Generalife (place of recreation for the Granadan Muslim kings), the Cathedral, the Realejo (former Jewish quarter), Albayzin (old Moorish quarter), and Sacromonte (old neighbourhood of the Gypsies). These places are all indicated on the Google_Map on this website.

We hope that Granada's cultural diversity and close proximity to North Africa will help to attract more conference participants from Africa and the Middle East.

The Joint Conference of ESBB & the Spanish National Biobank Network (Red Nacional de Biobancos), was held in the Granada Conference and Exhibition Centre from the 7th - 9th November 2012.

The local host and co-organiser for the conference was the Andalusian Public Health System Biobank (Biobanco del Sistema Sanitario Público de Andalucía).

The conference theme was: "Biobanks - Advancing Science and Serving Society in the 21st Century". The conference programme built on the success of our two recent conferences in Tarragona (Oct, 2011) and Marseille (Nov, 2011).

Thank you to all participants for helping to make this such an enjoyable and productive conference! There were 523 attendees from 41 countries. Further conference statistics are shown below.

Conference presentations are now available for viewing online, including:

(1) The six prize-winning posters

(2) Speaker presentations (see details below)

(3) Conference Programme Book

(4) List of conference attendees

Items (2), (3) and (4) can be downloaded from the ESBB Members Website.

Presentations from the Granada conference that are available on this website:

• Manuel Morente
• Peter Watson
• Barbara Parodi
• Rivka Ravid
• Rupert Langer
• Johann Eder
• Ann Clarke
• Dominik Lermen
• Romain Potier
• Antonio Hugo Campos

Presentations available on the ESBB_members-only_website include:

• Yeonhee Lee
• Khalid Siddiqui
• Mercedes Gonzales-Ruiz
• Christian Chabannon
• Bongiosi Dumas
• Muntaser Ibrahim
• Pasquale De Blasio
• Patrick Sluss
• Dominic Allen
• Georg Lauss
• Peter Dabrock
• Jackie Mackenzie-Dodds
• Bas de Jong
• Jonas Astrin
• Chana Rabiner
• Felix Forest
• Isabel Rey
• Ole Seberg
• Biobank Definition session
• Poster Discussion session