Nurturing tomorrow's leaders: The ISCB Student Council Symposia in 2018

Daniele Parisi^#¹, Gabriel J Olguín-Orellana^#², Eli J Draizen^#³, Nilson Da Rocha Coimbra⁴, Nikolaos Papadopoulos⁵, Susanne Kirchen⁶, Yvonne Saara Gladbach^{7

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9}, Numrah Fadra¹⁰, Nazeefa Fatima¹¹, Aishwarya Alex Namasivayam⁶, Sayane Shome¹², Dan DeBlasio¹³, Alexander M Monzon¹⁴, Farzana Rahman¹⁵, R Gonzalo Parra¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ ESAT-STADIUS, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium.
² Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Simulations, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
⁴ Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁵ Quantitative and Computational Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany.
⁶ Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
⁷ Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research, IBIMA - Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany.
⁸ Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁹ Division of Applied Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center and National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
¹⁰ Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics and Mayo Clinic and Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
¹¹ Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
¹² Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
¹³ Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
¹⁵ Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK.
¹⁶ Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 30647915
PMCID: PMC6329205
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.17739.1

Editorial

Nurturing tomorrow's leaders: The ISCB Student Council Symposia in 2018

Daniele Parisi et al. F1000Res. 2019.

. 2019 Jan 9:8:ISCB Comm J-34.

doi: 10.12688/f1000research.17739.1. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ ESAT-STADIUS, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium.
² Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Simulations, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
⁴ Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁵ Quantitative and Computational Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany.
⁶ Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
⁷ Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research, IBIMA - Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany.
⁸ Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁹ Division of Applied Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center and National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
¹⁰ Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics and Mayo Clinic and Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
¹¹ Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
¹² Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
¹³ Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
¹⁵ Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK.
¹⁶ Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 30647915
PMCID: PMC6329205
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.17739.1

Abstract

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).

Keywords: ISCB; student council; symposia.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: All authors from this article are members of the ISCB Student Council.

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