Genome Biology and BioMed Central have announced there will be a cloud computing workshop at their conference "Beyond the Genome: The true gene count, human evolution and disease genomics" which takes place at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA on 11-13 October 2010.

A discounted student registration rate is available for this event. Register now at http://www.beyondthegenome2010.com to ensure you don’t miss out.

The first European Student Council Symposium (ESCS1) will be held on September 26, 2010 in Ghent, Belgium, as a satellite meeting of the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB).

=== LATE POSTER DEADLINE: Aug 16, 2010 ===
http://escs.iscbsc.org/abstract-submission
=== EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Aug 20, 2010 ===
http://escs.iscbsc.org/registration

You can register to the student symposium even if you do not attend ECCB. It only costs 100 euros, but will be 150 euros after the early registration deadline.

If you are attending ISMB 2010 in Boston you should have a look at our listing of events and activities that we have organized for you.

And don't forget to come to the Student Council Booth in the exhibit area to say hello, find out about all our offerings and maybe even pick up some free goodies. We are all looking forward to meeting you!

The third edition of this exhibition brings you artistic images and videos that have been generated as part of a research project. This also includes images resulting from creative efforts that involve scientific concepts or employ scientific tools and methods.

The Art & Science Exhibition will be Room 310.

The Student Council has organized this series of seminars targeted at students and post-doctoral scholars attending ISMB 2010. These career development seminars will be conducted in Room 311 on Tuesday, July 13th. Each talk will be approximately 20 minutes.

• Careers snapshots from EMBL-EBI by Louisa Wood
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Training Program at Iowa State University by Julie Dickerson
• Passion - a driving force in the evolution of a scientist by Michal Linial, ECCB president, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel