Congratulations to Kaur Alasoo from University of Tartu, Estonia for being selected for the internship at Schneider lab at EMBL, Heidelberg. He will be interning there from April to August, 2010. This is the first internship organized exclusively by the Student Council. Please keep checking this website for upcoming internship opportunities.

For the ISMB 2010 Art & Science Exhibition the ISCB and the ISCB Student Council invite all interested conference attendees to submit artistic images and videos that have been generated as part of a research project. They are also soliciting images and videos resulting from creative efforts that involve scientific concepts or employ scientific tools and methods.

Participate in this exciting ISMB event to surprise and inspire us, to open our eyes and minds! Submission Deadline is April 23th and there is the chance to win a $200 cash award for the best artistic image or video. Further details are provided on the ISMB 2010 website.

Submit your abstract today to participate in the 6th Symposium of the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council on July 9th 2010 in Boston!

Links

Submissions: http://symposium.iscbsc.org/content/submissions
Travel Fellowships: http://symposium.iscbsc.org/content/travel-fellowships
General: http://symposium.iscbsc.org/

Important dates

February 22: Abstract and Travel Fellowship submission opens
April 23: Abstract submission closes
April 30: Travel Fellowships submission closes
May 14: Travel Fellowship winners and Abstract acceptance notification

Today's issue of PLos Computational Biology features a "Ten Simple Rules" editorial about the organization of virtual conferences in developing nations. The editorial was written by leaders of African Regional Student Groups and organizers of the First African Virtual Bioinformatics Conference 2009 (AFBIX09).

Saras Saraswathi is a PhD student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program at Iowa State University in the United States. She is a long time Student Council member and has been contributing to many of our activities over the years, in particular the Regional Student Group initiative.

Saras has recently started a blog on Nature Network, where she is writing about bioinformatics and her experience of being part of the ISCB Student Council community. Check it out!