Highlights from the ISCB Student Council Symposia in 2016

Bart Cuypers^#^{1

2}, Annika Jacobsen^#³, Ben Siranosian⁴, Kevin Schwahn⁵, Ashley Mae Conard⁶, Nanne Aben⁷, Mehedi Hassan⁸, Nazeefa Fatima⁹, Susanne M A Hermans¹⁰, Melissa Woghiren¹¹, Pieter Meysman², Farzana Rahman⁸, Anupama Jigisha¹²

Affiliations

¹ Molecular Parasitology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
² Advanced Database Research and Modeling group (ADReM), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics (IBIVU), VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴ Broad Institute, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA.
⁵ Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Postdam, Germany.
⁶ Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, USA.
⁷ Computational Cancer Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁸ Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Treforest, UK.
⁹ Eukaryotic Evolution Research Group, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK.
¹⁰ Institute for Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
¹¹ Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
¹² Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 28003876
PMCID: PMC5166585
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.10389.1

Editorial

Highlights from the ISCB Student Council Symposia in 2016

Bart Cuypers et al. F1000Res. 2016.

. 2016 Dec 15:5:ISCB Comm J-2852.

doi: 10.12688/f1000research.10389.1. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Molecular Parasitology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
² Advanced Database Research and Modeling group (ADReM), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics (IBIVU), VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴ Broad Institute, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA.
⁵ Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Postdam, Germany.
⁶ Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, USA.
⁷ Computational Cancer Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁸ Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Treforest, UK.
⁹ Eukaryotic Evolution Research Group, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK.
¹⁰ Institute for Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
¹¹ Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
¹² Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 28003876
PMCID: PMC5166585
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.10389.1

Abstract

This editorial provides a brief overview of the 12th International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council Symposium and the 4th European Student Council Symposium held in Florida, USA and The Hague, Netherlands, respectively. Further, the role of the ISCB Student Council in promoting education and networking in the field of computational biology is also highlighted.

Keywords: European Student Council Symposium; ISCB Student Council; Meeting highlights; Networking events; Outreach; Public engagement; Science communication; Student Council Symposium.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors were part of the organizing team of either SCS2016 or ESCS2016.

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Highlights from the ISCB Student Council Symposia in 2016

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Highlights from the ISCB Student Council Symposia in 2016

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