RSG Pakistan organized a symposium in collaboration with National Academy of Young Scientists (NAYS) and weekly Technology Times that was attended by more than 30 students from 29 different institutions of Pakistan. Six speakers from foreign and local universities spoke on a variety topics. See here for more details.

Regional Student Group of Eastern Africa (RSG Eastern Africa) in collaboration with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) , Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA), and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is organising a 10 day EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Course titled "Next Generation sequencing for Africa". The Course will take place from 31st August to 9th September at the African Institute for Capacity Development (AICAD) at Nairobi, Kenya

Regional Student Group (RSG) Pakistan was featured in the February 14-20, 2011 issue of the Weekly Technology Times, Pakistan’s newspaper on science and technology. The article discusses the benefits of RSGs to computational biology students, particularly in a country where bioinformatics is still a relatively young field. It also provides an excellent overview of the specific goals and services of RSG-Pakistan. Read the complete article here.

The first North Africa, Portugal and Spain Student Symposium on Bioinformatics(NPS3Bio) was held on October 26, in Malaga (Spain) as a special session within the X Jornadas de Bioinformática (Workshop on Bioinformatics for Personalized Medicine). The meeting report describes the variety of invited talks, student talks and posters presented during the meeting.

The first funding cycle of this initiative was very competitive with a number of excellent proposals being submitted. Proposals from RSG-India, RSG-Eastern Africa and RSG-Brazil (partial funding) were selected for support. The events organized by these regional student groups were as follows

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