Nurturing tomorrow's leaders: The ISCB Student Council Symposia in 2018

Daniele Parisi; Gabriel J Olguín-Orellana; Eli J Draizen; Nilson Da Rocha Coimbra; Nikolaos Papadopoulos; Susanne Kirchen; Yvonne Saara Gladbach; Numrah Fadra; Nazeefa Fatima; Aishwarya Alex Namasivayam; Sayane Shome; Dan DeBlasio; Alexander M Monzon; Farzana Rahman; R Gonzalo Parra

doi:10.12688/f1000research.17739.1

Nurturing tomorrow's leaders: The ISCB Student Council Symposia in 2018

F1000Res. 2019 Jan 9:8:ISCB Comm J-34. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.17739.1. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Daniele Parisi^#¹, Gabriel J Olguín-Orellana^#², Eli J Draizen^#³, Nilson Da Rocha Coimbra⁴, Nikolaos Papadopoulos⁵, Susanne Kirchen⁶, Yvonne Saara Gladbach^{7

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9}, Numrah Fadra¹⁰, Nazeefa Fatima¹¹, Aishwarya Alex Namasivayam⁶, Sayane Shome¹², Dan DeBlasio¹³, Alexander M Monzon¹⁴, Farzana Rahman¹⁵, R Gonzalo Parra¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ ESAT-STADIUS, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium.
² Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Simulations, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
⁴ Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁵ Quantitative and Computational Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany.
⁶ Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
⁷ Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research, IBIMA - Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany.
⁸ Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁹ Division of Applied Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center and National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
¹⁰ Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics and Mayo Clinic and Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
¹¹ Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
¹² Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
¹³ Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
¹⁵ Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK.
¹⁶ Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

The Student Council of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB-SC) is a student-focused organization for researchers from all early career levels of training (undergraduates, masters, PhDs and postdocs) that organizes bioinformatics and computational biology activities across the globe. Among its activities, the ISCB-SC organizes several symposia in different continents, many times, with the help of the Regional Student Groups (RSGs) that are based on each region. In this editorial we highlight various key moments and learned lessons from the 14th Student Council Symposium (SCS, Chicago, USA), the 5th European Student Council Symposium (ESCS, Athens, Greece) and the 3rd Latin American Student Council Symposium (LA-SCS, Viña del Mar, Chile).

Keywords: ISCB; student council; symposia.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Chile
Computational Biology*
Humans
Leadership*
Research Personnel
Students*

Grants and funding

This work and the events here described have been supported by funding provided by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The authors would also thank all our sponsors. SCS was sponsored by Elsevier, the Data Science Institute from University of Virginia, the Master of Biomedical Informatics programme from Hardvard University, Oxford University Press and Paperpile. ESCS was sponsered by Paperpile, PLoS and the Jackson Laboratories. LA-SCS was sponsored by the IDPfun consortium.