ISCB Student Council - NYC Computational Biology Student Meeting 2008

Key dates:
Tuesday 15th January 2008 -- Application submission deadline
Friday 15th February 2008 -- Notification of acceptance
Thursday 24 to Saturday 26 July -- The event starts

A Student Council-led meeting is organized from Thursday 24 July to Saturday 26 July, directly after the Toronto meeting (one whole day and two part days). The event will take place at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell (ICB).

The meeting will consist of a combination of presentations given by faculty from the Weill College and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, introducing the different aspects of their research. This is the ideal occassion for students to learn about a broad range of topics in Computational Biology, as well as the opportunities available at both New York based centers of excellence.

The Aim of this get together is to show students the variety of research possible in computational biology, the very broad opportunities that there are in academia and to serve as an introduction to some of the people leading this research.

The Speakers in this meeting come mainly from two institutes: the Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell (ICB) and the Computational Biology Center at MSKCC (cBio). The faculty have very wide and varied interests, ranging from retinal neuroscience to natural language parsing to cardiac electrophysiological dynamics, and from modelling of biological networks to investigating the robustness of the immune system, to transcriptional gene regulation.

The Schedule of events will consist of a session of short (~20-30 mins) presentations by a number of the faculty, to highlight the types of research the faculty are involved in, followed by short presentations by the students themselves on their projects or interests (the afternoon poster session), and then a general gathering where the students can mix with the faculty, be shown around their labs, and be shown some of the fun facilities available, such the immersive visualization environment.

Funding and Eligibility:

Funding is available to support the travelling of students. This funding will be distributed to two classes:

Travel stipend of $1020 to attend ISMB Toronto and the NYC Student Meeting. Here only low and lower-middle income countries (according to World Bank statistics) are invited to apply. In addition to this, we will also fund a one way flight from Toronto to NYC or return Amtrak ticket, and accomodation and meals in NYC ($460).
Funding to cover the attendance to the NYC Student Meeting 2008 *only*. This includes accomodation and meals ($260). All nationalities are encouraged to apply.
Students with their own funding are also encouraged to apply. Note that the registration fee including meals and accomodation costs $260.

The student must attend ISMB-2008 at Toronto.

The student must be an ISCB and Student Council member in good standing.
The ISCB membership requirement may be waived for students from low or lower middle countries if they show proof of belonging or having actively contributed to the development of a Regional Student Group.

Selection process:

The number of places is limited to 20 students.
Write a paragraph about what lab you come from.
Write a paragraph about how/why you think you would benefit from being selected?
Send your application by email to
no later than 15 January 2008.
The Student Council Leadership will shortlist the best candidates and the final decision for approval will be decided by the Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
If by 15 February 2008 you do not hear from us you should assume your application was unsuccessful.
We would be most grateful if you would book your flight as soon as you are notified in the near future.