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.

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!

Dear colleagues,

We would like to let you know that the 6th ISCB Student Council Symposium will take place in Boston on July 9, just before ISMB 2010.

We are happy to announce the first internship as part of our Student Council Career Central (SCCC) initiative in the Schneider lab at EMBL, Heidelberg starting in January, 2010. We would also like to thank Dr. Schneider for kindly offering this internship exclusively organized by Student Council. You can find more details about the application process at the link below.

• Internship at Schneider Lab

Please send mail to internships@iscbsc.org if you have any queries.