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. 2018 Oct 9;19(Suppl 12):347.
doi: 10.1186/s12859-018-2369-x.

Reflections on a journey: a retrospective of the ISCB Student Council symposium series

Mehedi Hassan  1 , Aishwarya Alex Namasivayam  2 , Dan DeBlasio  3 , Nazeefa Fatima  4 , Benjamin Siranosian  5 , R Gonzalo Parra  6 , Bart Cuypers  7 , Sayane Shome  8 , Alexander Miguel Monzon  9 , Julien Fumey  10 , Farzana Rahman  11
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Reflections on a journey: a retrospective of the ISCB Student Council symposium series

Mehedi Hassan et al. BMC Bioinformatics. .

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Career; Community; Computational Biology; Development; ECCB; ISCB; ISMB; Leadership; Networking; SCS; Science Communication; Student Council; Symposium; Young.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Timeline of symposia series by the ISCB Student Council Different editions of Student Council Symposium with their locations per year. Dots on the central red line denotes years. Three branches represent three regional editions of SCS, they are: Blue for ESCS, Orange for LA-SCS and Green for SCS-Africa
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Statistics of attendees per symposium The chart shows the distribution of attendees across various editions of the SCS. Colour legends are: Red bar for SCS, blue for ESCS, yellow for LA-SCS, and green for SCS-Africa
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
Statistics of travel fellowships awarded per symposium The chart shows the number of travel fellowships in SCS and its derivative events. Colour legends are: Red bar for SCS, blue for ESCS, yellow for LA-SCS, and green for SCS-Africa
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