The Student Council Goes Local -

Regional Student Groups

 Over the past year ISCB Student Council leaders have researched the possibility of setting up Regional Student Groups (RSGs) in countries around the world to better serve local student communities. The goal is to conduct events, which will be beneficial to the professional development of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology students on a local level. Further, opportunities need to be created for students to interact with local industry and organizations.
A request for setting up RSGs was submitted to the ISCB Board of Directors and their approval was given in the fall of 2006. Talks were held with student groups in several countries and the Student Council got a positive response from them to partner in future activities pertaining to students in their region.
The Student Council has so far successfully established three affiliated RSGs in Singapore, India and Africa and is reviewing proposals from groups in Denmark and Canada.

President
Angela Jean
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Contact
rsg-singapore@iscbsc.org
Web
http://www.google.com/group/iscb-rsg-singapore

RSG India [link]

President
Abhishek Pratap
VIT University, India
Contact
rsg-india@iscbsc.org
Web
http://www.google.com/group/rsg-india

RSG Africa

President
Segun Fatumo
Covenant University, Nigeria
Contact
rsg-africa@iscbsc.org

RSG Denmark

President
Prashanth Suravajhala
Roskilde University, Denmark
Contact
rsg-denmark@iscbsc.org
Web
http://www.google.com/group/rsg-denmark

RSG Canada

President
Amr Abu-zeid
Queen's University, Canada
Contact
rsg-canada@iscbsc.org