13 July 2012 @ Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, California, USA
Symposium Submission Opens January 30, 2012.
http://symposium.iscbsc.org/

The Student Council Symposium 2012 is a forum for students, post docs, and young researchers in the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work to an international audience, build a network within the computational biology community and develop important soft skills in an environment that fosters exchange of ideas and knowledge.

RSG-India is pleased to announce that the 18th annual IEEE
International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2011) will be held in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, during *December 18-21, 2011.

HiPC is an international meeting on high performance computing which serves as a forum to present the current work by researchers from all over the world. The conference will host several core computing sessions such as

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.

If you didn't have an opportunity to attend the 7th Annual ISCB Student Council Symposium or misplaced your materials, here is an online version of the Symposium Program booklet.

The 7th Annual ISCB Student Council Symposium, held in Vienna Austria on July 15, 2011, was a huge success! More than 80 student delegates from all over the world had an opportunity to listen to 10 excellent oral presentations and review 48 posters on topics ranging from sequence analysis to bioinformatics tools and transcriptomics.

The 7th Annual ISCB Student Council Symposium will be held this Friday, July 15, starting at 8 am in the Austria Center, Vienna, Room J565. It's going to be a fantastic meeting. Be sure to check out the agenda and information about Student Council events planned during ISCB/ECCB 2011. And stop by and chat with other Student Council members at Booth 4!

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

Call for abstracts and travel fellowships for 7th ISCB Student Council Symposium (Vienna, Austria)

Submit your abstract today to participate in the 7th Symposium of the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council on July 15th 2011 in Vienna!

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.

This meeting report gives an overview of the keynote lectures and a selection of the student oral and poster presentations at the 6th International Society for Computational Biology Student Council Symposium that was held as a precursor event to the annual international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB). The symposium was held in Boston, MA, USA on July 9th, 2010.

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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Its time for the second round of proposals for funding from Regional Student Groups (RSGs). We encourage you to apply if your RSG is looking to organize any small event or start an initiative. You will need to submit the following

• A 1-2 page description of the event/initiative with motivation, benefits and plan for execution.
• Detailed budget with justification of costs. An RSG can request for funds of up to $400 USD.

The proposals are due by December 15th. Also to let everyone get a fair chance, RSGs that were funded during the previous funding cycle, are not eligible to apply this cycle. RSG leaders interested in applying for funding should contact rsg@iscbsc.org.

We are pleased to announce the 2011 Executive Team, which was elected by our members and will take office on January 21st, 2011:

• Geoff MacIntyre, Chair - Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering and NICTA, Victoria Research Lab, Diagnostic Genomics Group, The University of, Melbourne, Australia
• Teresa Szczepinska, Vice Chair - Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Laboratory, Poland
• Priscila Grynberg, Secretary - Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Anupama Jigisha, Treasurer - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics-UNIGE, Switzerland
• Thomas Abeel, ISCB Board of Directors Representative - Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Congratulations to the new Executive Team and thank you very much to all candidates who ran in the election and to everyone who cast their vote in support of the candidates.

Dear SC Member,

The deadline to cast your votes for ISCB Student Council leadership positions is October 11, 2010. Elections are also open for ISCB officer positions. Your participation is highly encouraged, as the results of these elections will form the basis of the future direction, and establishment of priorities, for ISCB and ISCB Student Council.

Congratulations to the following students for being selected for the internship at Rost lab at Technische Universität München, Munich campus.

• Mohd. Rehan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
• Maina Bitar (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil)
• Dedan Kinuthia Githae (University of Manchester, United Kingdom / resident of Kenya)
• Marian Ewejobi Itunuoluwa (Covenant University, Nigeria)

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.

The Education Committee is interested to find out about your views regarding mentoring schemes that pair students with more senior members of the computational biology community.

For now our goal is to establish if there is interest in such an offering among Student Council members and members of our Regional Student Groups. For this purpose the committee has created a very brief survey that we would like you to fill out to let us know about your opinion. Please participate, thank you!

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!