ISCB Student Council Symposium 2021, a virtual global venue: challenges and lessons learned

Cleidy Osorio-Mogollon; Victor Grentzinger; Gabriel J Olguin-Orellana; Sebastian Ayala-Ruano; Shruti Gupta; Pradeep Eranti; Aayush Grover; Bart Cuypers; Nazeefa Fatima; Sayane Shome; Farzana Rahman; R Gonzalo Parra

doi:10.12688/f1000research.129945.1

ISCB Student Council Symposium 2021, a virtual global venue: challenges and lessons learned

F1000Res. 2023 Jan 12:12:50. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.129945.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Riberao Preto, Brazil.
² Laboratory of Human Genetics, GIGA Research Institute, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
³ Center for Bioinformatics, Simulation and Modeling (CBSM), Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile.
⁴ Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁵ School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli, India.
⁶ Universite Paris Cit ´e, Inserm, UMRS-1124, Group of Genomic Epidemiology and Multifactorial Diseases, Paris, France.
⁷ International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, Bangalore, India.
⁸ Adrem Data Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁹ Nordic Computational Biology, NA, Sweden.
¹⁰ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Stanford University,, California, USA.
¹¹ Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Environment, Kingston University, London, UK.
¹² Computational Biology Group, Life Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain.

Abstract

Since 2004, the ISCB Student Council has been organizing different symposia worldwide, gathering together the community of young computational biologists. Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic situation, the world scientific community was forced to cancel in-person meetings for almost two years, imposing the adoption of virtual formats instead. After the successful editions of our continental symposia in 2020 in the USA, Latin America, and Europe, we organized our flagship global event, the Student Council Symposium (SCS) 2021, trying to apply all previous lessons learned and to exploit the advantages that virtuality has to offer.

Keywords: bioinformatics; computational biology; covid19; pandemic; student council; virtual.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
Computational Biology*
Europe
Health Personnel
Humans
Students

Grants and funding

The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work.