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Al Sium SM, Torrejón E, Chowdhury SF, Ahmed R, Jain A, Treccani M, Veschetti L, Riaz A, Eranti P, Olguín-Orellana GJ. Adapting beyond borders: Insights from the 19th Student Council Symposium (SCS2023), the first hybrid ISCB Student Council global event. Bioinform Adv 2024; 4:vbae028. [PMID: 38606186 PMCID: PMC11007116 DOI: 10.1093/bioadv/vbae028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 04/13/2024]
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Summary The 19th ISCB Student Council Symposium (SCS2023) organized by ISCB-SC adopted a hybrid format for the first time, allowing participants to engage in-person in Lyon, France, and virtually via an interactive online platform. The symposium prioritized inclusivity, featuring on-site sessions, poster presentations, and social activities for in-person attendees, while virtual participants accessed live sessions, interactive Q&A, and a virtual exhibit hall. Attendee statistics revealed a global reach, with Europe as the major contributor. SCS2023's success in bridging in-person and virtual experiences sets a precedent for future events in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Availability and Implementation The details of the symposium, speaker information, schedules, and accepted abstracts, are available in the program booklet (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8173977). For organizers interested in adopting a similar hybrid model, it would be beneficial to have access to details regarding the online platform used, the types of sessions offered, and the challenges faced. Future iterations of SCS can address these aspects to further enhance accessibility and inclusivity.
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- Syed Muktadir Al Sium
- Industrial Microbiology Research Division, BCSIR Chattogram Laboratories, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Chattogram 4220, Bangladesh
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- Metabolic Diseases Research Group, iNOVA4Health, NOVA Medical School, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1169-056 Lisbon, Portugal
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- Biological Research Division, BCSIR Dhaka Laboratories, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh
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- Laboratory of Population Genetics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Delhi, New Delhi 110021, India
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- GM Lab, Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy
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- GM Lab, Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy
- Infections and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy
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- Precision Medicine Lab, National Center of Big Data and Cloud Computing, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan
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- Université Paris Cité, Inserm, T3S, F-75006 Paris, France
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- Centro de Investigación de Estudios Avanzados del Maule (CIEAM), Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Postgrado, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca 3460000, Chile
- Laboratorio de Bioinformática y Química Computacional, Departamento de Medicina Traslacional, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca 3480094, Chile
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Grover A, Riaz A, Al Sium SM, Dincaslan FB, Chowdhury SF, Olguin-Orellana GJ, Parra RG, Eranti P. 1st ASCS: Expanding the ISCB Student Council Symposia to Asia. F1000Res 2023; 12:703. [PMID: 37359786 PMCID: PMC10285320 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.135767.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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Since 2004, the ISCB Student Council (ISCB-SC) has successfully organized Student Council Symposia across several continents, including North America, Latin America, Europe, and Africa, as well as local events led by more than 25 Regional Student Groups (RSG) across the world. The ISCB-SC Symposia provide students and early career researchers the chance to showcase their work at an international venue in a format that includes keynote talks, round table discussions, workshops, and more. After several efforts spanning several years to build enough critical mass in the region, we have successfully organized the first Asian Student Council Symposium (1st ASCS). This article discusses the organizational details of this unprecedented event, the challenges faced, and the lessons learned.
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- Aayush Grover
- Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Zurich, Switzerland
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- CECOS-RMI Precision Medicine Lab, Peshawar, Pakistan
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- Industrial Microbiology Research Division, BCSIR Chattogram Laboratories, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Institute for Health Innovation and Technology, 117599, Singapore
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 119077, Singapore
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- Biological Research Division, BCSIR Dhaka Laboratories, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Simulation and Modeling (CBSM), Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Talca, 1 Poniente 1141, Talca, Chile
- Laboratorio de Bioinformática y Química Computacional, Departamento de Medicina Traslacional, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile
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- Universite Paris Cite, Inserm, UMRS-1124, Group of Genomic Epidemiology of Multifactorial Diseases, Paris, France
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Olguín-Orellana GJ, Papadimitriou S, Langtry Yáñez A, Eranti P, Flores-Vallejo RDC, Castillo-Orozco AI, Mayoral-Peña K, Parra RG. 6th European Student Council Symposium (ESCS): overcoming obstacles to enhance virtuality, connectivity, inclusivity and community engagement. F1000Res 2021; 10. [PMID: 33537121 PMCID: PMC7836082 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.40666.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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This editorial summarises the organisation, activities, and scientific content of the 6th European Student Council Symposium (ESCS) organised by the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC). The event was held on September 6, 2020, as a satellite event preceding the ISCB's 19th European Conference in Computational Biology. Both events were first planned to be held in-person in Sitges, Spain, but moved virtually as a strategy to face the SARS-CoV2 sanitary crisis. This completely unforeseen situation has posed several challenges that have been successfully addressed thanks to the robust ISCB Student Council community structure and the strong commitment of the organisers. Despite all the obstacles and challenges, we have found that virtuality has several advantages that can continue to be kept to improve in-person meetings in the future and make conferences more inclusive allowing a larger audience to participate.
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- Department of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Genome Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany
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Akurugu WA, Doughan A, Adamu Bukari AR, Hayat M, San EJ, Nyarko HN, Mogaka J, Harrison Ndung'u M, Rahman F, Shome S. Highlights of the 3rd ISCB Africa Student Council Symposium 2019 in Ghana. F1000Res 2020; 9. [PMID: 32518632 PMCID: PMC7255899 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.24101.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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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.
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- Wisdom A Akurugu
- Department of Integrative Biomedical Science, IDM, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.,Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Kwazulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform (KRISP), College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana
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- Discipline of Public Health, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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- Biochemistry Department, Center for Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, HEP Bioinformatics Consultants LTD, Nairobi, Kenya
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- School of Natural and Applied Science, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, UK.,Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales,, Wales, UK
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- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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Shome S, Parra RG, Fatima N, Monzon AM, Cuypers B, Moosa Y, Coimbra NDR, Assis J, Giner-Delgado C, Dönertaş HM, Cuesta-Astroz Y, Saarunya G, Allali I, Gupta S, Srivastava A, Kalsan M, Valdivia C, J Olguin-Orellana G, Papadimitriou S, Parisi D, Kristensen NP, Rib L, Guebila MB, Bauer E, Zaffaroni G, Bekkar A, Ashano E, Paladin L, Necci M, Moreyra NN, Rydén M, Villalobos-Solís J, Papadopoulos N, Rafael C, Karakulak T, Kaya Y, Gladbach Y, Dhanda SK, Šoštarić N, Alex A, DeBlasio D, Rahman F. Global network of computational biology communities: ISCB's Regional Student Groups breaking barriers. F1000Res 2019; 8. [PMID: 31508204 PMCID: PMC6720036 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.20408.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Regional Student Groups (RSGs) of the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) have been instrumental to connect computational biologists globally and to create more awareness about bioinformatics education. This article highlights the initiatives carried out by the RSGs both nationally and internationally to strengthen the present and future of the bioinformatics community. Moreover, we discuss the future directions the organization will take and the challenges to advance further in the ISCB-SC main mission: "Nurture the new generation of computational biologists".
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- Sayane Shome
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Iowa, USA
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Science for Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Upsala, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.,Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- KZN Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
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- Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- School of Microbiology, Universidad de Antioquía, Medellín, Colombia.,Colombian Tropical Medicine Institute (ICMT), Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, South Caroli a, USA
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco.,Division of Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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- School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- Ecosystem's Health Laboratory, Universidad Andres, Bello Santiago, Chile
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- Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, Université libre de Bruxelles-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- The Bioinformatics Center, Biology and Biotech Research and Innovation Center, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Molecular Diagnostics, Laboratory Services, APIN Public Health Initiatives, Abuja, Nigeria
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Genetics and Evolution of Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), CONICET-UBA, Institute of Ecology, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Biomedical Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Laboratorio de Biotenología de Plantas, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA), Heredia, Costa Rica
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- Quantitative and Computational Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Research Unit for Bioinformatics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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- Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ankara, Turkey
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- University Medical Center Rostock, University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, California, USA
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- Roche Diagnostics Automation Solutions GmbH, Roche, Waiblingen, Germany
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- Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK.,School of Human and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, UK
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Parisi D, Olguín-Orellana GJ, Draizen EJ, Da Rocha Coimbra N, Papadopoulos N, Kirchen S, Gladbach YS, Fadra N, Fatima N, Alex Namasivayam A, Shome S, DeBlasio D, Monzon AM, Rahman F, Parra RG. Nurturing tomorrow's leaders: The ISCB Student Council Symposia in 2018. F1000Res 2019; 8. [PMID: 30647915 PMCID: PMC6329205 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.17739.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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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).
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Quantitative and Computational Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research, IBIMA - Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany.,Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Applied Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center and National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics and Mayo Clinic and Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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Hassan M, Namasivayam AA, DeBlasio D, Fatima N, Siranosian B, Parra RG, Cuypers B, Shome S, Monzon AM, Fumey J, Rahman F. Reflections on a journey: a retrospective of the ISCB Student Council symposium series. BMC Bioinformatics 2018; 19:347. [PMID: 30301451 PMCID: PMC6176502 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-018-2369-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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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.
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- Mehedi Hassan
- Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK
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- Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Institute of Tropical Medicine and the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa USA
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- Structural Bioinformatics Group, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Human Genetics and Cognitive Function, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK
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Student Council Symposiums (SCSs) have been found to be very useful for students and young researchers. This is especially true given that the events are held directly before large international conferences, giving attendees a chance to gain exposure and have a warm up to the social nuances involved in attending such a meeting. This was the second SCS held in Africa in conjunction with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology's (ASBCB) biennial meeting. This symposium was organised by students within the society inside Africa and was held on the 10 th of October 2017 in Entebbe, Uganda.
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- Candice N. Rafael
- Research Unit in Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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- Immunovirology and Vaccine Development Laboratory, Medical Biotech Department, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria
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- KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform (KRISP), University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
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- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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