Reflections on a journey: a retrospective of the ISCB Student Council symposium series

Mehedi Hassan; Aishwarya Alex Namasivayam; Dan DeBlasio; Nazeefa Fatima; Benjamin Siranosian; R Gonzalo Parra; Bart Cuypers; Sayane Shome; Alexander Miguel Monzon; Julien Fumey; Farzana Rahman

doi:10.1186/s12859-018-2369-x

Reflections on a journey: a retrospective of the ISCB Student Council symposium series

BMC Bioinformatics. 2018 Oct 9;19(Suppl 12):347. doi: 10.1186/s12859-018-2369-x.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK.
² Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Université du Luxembourg, Belvaux, Luxembourg.
³ Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
⁵ Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁶ European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁷ Institute of Tropical Medicine and the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁸ Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
⁹ Structural Bioinformatics Group, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁰ Human Genetics and Cognitive Function, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
¹¹ Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK. frahman@iscb.org.

Abstract

This article describes the motivation, origin and evolution of the student symposia series organised by the ISCB Student Council. The meeting series started thirteen years ago in Madrid and has spread to four continents. The article concludes with the highlights of the most recent edition of annual Student Council Symposium held in conjunction with the 25th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the 16th European Conference on Computational Biology, in Prague, in July 2017.

Keywords: Career; Community; Computational Biology; Development; ECCB; ISCB; ISMB; Leadership; Networking; SCS; Science Communication; Student Council; Symposium; Young.

MeSH terms

Computational Biology*
Congresses as Topic*
Fellowships and Scholarships
Humans
Peer Review, Research
Publications
Research Support as Topic / economics
Students*