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.

The Student Symposium accepts late poster submissions till August 16, with notification on August 18. We actively encourage you to submit work you are presenting at ECCB to the Student Symposium as well.

The program is available on our website and includes:
- a keynote presentation by Yves Van de Peer about Generating hypotheses
for molecular biology through (top-down) systems biology
- a soft skill workshop on the use of theatre skills for presenting
- student presentations from abstract submissions
- a poster session

See http://escs.iscbsc.org/program

Looking forward to seeing you in Belgium!

Magali Michaut
ESCS1 chair

Thomas Abeel
ESCS1 co-chair