Highlights of the 3rd ISCB Africa Student Council Symposium 2019 in Ghana

Wisdom A Akurugu; Albert Doughan; Abdul-Rahman Adamu Bukari; Mahtaab Hayat; Emmanuel James San; Hannah Nyarkoah Nyarko; John Mogaka; Mwangi Harrison Ndung'u; Farzana Rahman; Sayane Shome

doi:10.12688/f1000research.24101.1

Highlights of the 3rd ISCB Africa Student Council Symposium 2019 in Ghana

F1000Res. 2020 May 27:9:ISCB Comm J-448. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.24101.1. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Integrative Biomedical Science, IDM, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
² Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana.
³ Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada.
⁴ Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁵ Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁶ Kwazulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform (KRISP), College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
⁷ Discipline of Public Health, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
⁸ Biochemistry Department, Center for Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, HEP Bioinformatics Consultants LTD, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁹ School of Natural and Applied Science, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, UK.
¹⁰ Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales,, Wales, UK.
¹¹ Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.

Abstract

The article elaborates on the program highlights of the 3rd African Student Council Symposium 2019. The one-day symposium was held in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, on 11 November 2019 during the 6th joint international bioinformatics conference of the ISCB and ASBCB. It consisted of three sessions that included keynote talks by Prof Christine Orengo and Dr. Amel Ghouila, and seven selected student speaker talks from different areas of bioinformatics. The students benefited from networking and learning about ongoing research work by their peers hailing from different countries of the African region. The symposium proved to be pivotal to strengthen connections in the African bioinformatics student community.

Keywords: ASBCB; Africa; Bioinformatics; Ghana; ISCB; Student Council Symposium.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Computational Biology*
Congresses as Topic
Ghana
Humans
Students*
Universities

Grants and funding

The symposium was partially supported by the ISCB Student Council that also provided a grant to cover leadership and participant travel fellowships.