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Upcoming Events

Publications
It now has been confirmed that our 4th ISCB Student Council Symposium will take place at ISMB 2008 in Toronto on Friday July 18th.

Seven travel fellowships available! Application and submissions deadline is May 26th.

Symposium Website
Join our DREAM team and participate in the DREAM 2008 network reverse engineering competition!

Application deadline is May 15th.
The Student Council in collaboration with the ISCB will be presenting an art exhibition and contest at ISMB 2008. Submit your own images and videos!

Visual Reflections on Science
The Student Council is currently organizing a meeting in New York City from Thursday July 24th to Saturday July 26th directly after ISMB 2008.

Meetings Homepage
Manuel Corpas, Nils Gehlenborg and Sarath Chandra Janga have written an editorial with PLoS Computational Biology Editor-in-Chief Philip E. Bourne. The editorial is called "Ten Simple Rules for Organizing a Scientific Meeting" and based on their experiences organizing the ISCB Student Council Symposium and similar events.


Have a look at our BMC Bioinformatics supplement featuring the highlights from the 3rd ISCB Student Council Symposium. This a selection of 14 outstanding abstracts presented at the symposium in Vienna in July 2007.

Highlights on the BMC Bioinformatics website.

This publication has been made possible through support from the Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC) and the Institute for Systems Biology.
The ISCB Student Council Symposium series has been mentioned in a perspective article on student conferences published in Nature Reviews Genetics


What is the Student Council?

The ISCB Student Council facilitates opportunities for development and growth to young members of ISCB. Our mission is to develop the next generation computational biologists.

ISCB Student Council was the vision of Manuel Corpas and was officially approved by ISCB Board of Directors during ISMB 2004. The ISCB Student Council is a section of ISCB dedicated to facilitating opportunities of development for students and young researchers in the field of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.


Testimonial Letter

Segun Fatumo
Cologne University BioInformatics center (CUBIC)
University of Cologne, Germany.

"ISCB-SC: The World of Transformation"

In the world of success, information is the greatest assest. It is definetely true to say that information is the gateway to transformation in life. The success story of my exposure to the world of bioinformatics began when I made the decision to join the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) in the year 2005 from my home country, Nigeria with the advice of my supervisor, Ezekiel Adebiyi of Covenant University, Ota Nigeria.

I must confess that ISCB-SC has an effective way of encouraging and disseminating relevant information to new students in the field of bioinformatics. Just in a couple of months after I joined this great body, I was properly guided under the leadership of the former president and Student Council Symposium Chair, Vijaya Parthiban & Nils Gehlenborg respectively. I was enlightened in the best way to develop a career in bioinformatics and get a solid foundation to move ahead in this emerging field. Little did I know that this information would land me in Europe at the Cologne University Bioinformatics Center, at the University of Cologne, Germany where I was offered a scholarship for one year to pursue a postgraduate training course in bioinformatics.


Indeed, my involvement in ISCB-SC has really given me a lot of real exposure to the bioinformatics world. ISCB-SC has also offered me a lot of information on opportunities such as travel fellowship grants for many conferences and workshops. May I use this medium to express my heartfelt gratitude to the founder of ISCB-SC, Manuel Corpas for his vision of pioneering this organisation, and also to Vijaya Parthiban & Nils Gehlenborg for their active roles in bringing up the new generation computational biologists.


On a final note, I would like to encourage every young researcher and student who intend to thrive in the field of computational biology, bioinformatics and systems biology to make sure they join the ISCB-SC and be part of what I call the world of transformation.

Segun Fatumo.


JOIN ISCB Student Council!

If you are or plan to become a student or post doc member of ISCB, signing up for the Student Council is a very simple process. Within your membership registration form just mark the check box for Student Council on the list of committees you are interested in serving. If you already registered for 2005 ISCB membership but neglected to mark that checkbox, or cannot remember if you did or not, simply login on the membership page and select Edit Personal Information to update or verify your record. Once your checkbox is marked you will be enrolled as an SC member within seven days. It's that simple!

How to be part of the Student Council?

  1. Sign up with our free mailing list (click here to sign up) to receive updates about ISCB-SC activities.
  2. Check out the info about the different roles and familiarise yourself with the group websites here: http://www.iscbsc.org
  3. Check out what's happening in our forum http://www.iscbsc.org/scforum/
  4. Choose one of the areas you think it would be most challenging for you!
  5. Let the representative of your favourite area know what you would like to contribute it with.
  6. S/he wil let you know what to do.
  7. Join us in the SC leaders maillist.
  8. Encourage friends and colleagues to join the SC!
Don't miss this opportunity before is too late. This is our chance to make of the SC the best ever!


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