In the first PhD Student Retreat (2009) students had a unique opportunity to meet and interact with other Systems Biology students in Switzerland. SystemsX.ch invited three excellent academic speakers from various Systems Biology fields to participate in this event. David Fell, Greg Stephanopoulos, and Erik van Nimwegen gave lectures on their fields of expertise. In addition students presented some of their data and submitted either an abstract for a talk and/or prepared a poster. The lectures, poster sessions, and the excursion gave them plenty of time to interact with the speakers and their peers. At the end of the first day, there was a hiking excursion to the Riggi mountain, followed by dinner.

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