|
1
|
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:ISCB Comm J-34. [PMID: 30647915 PMCID: PMC6329205 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.17739.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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).
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
| | | | - Eli J. Draizen
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
| | - Nilson Da Rocha Coimbra
- Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
| | - Nikolaos Papadopoulos
- Quantitative and Computational Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany
| | - Susanne Kirchen
- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
| | - Yvonne Saara Gladbach
- 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
| | - Numrah Fadra
- Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics and Mayo Clinic and Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
| | | | - Aishwarya Alex Namasivayam
- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
| | - Sayane Shome
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
| | - Dan DeBlasio
- Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | | | - Farzana Rahman
- Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK
| | - R. Gonzalo Parra
- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
| |
Collapse
|
|
2
|
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] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Mehedi Hassan
- Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK
| | | | - Dan DeBlasio
- Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
| | - Nazeefa Fatima
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
| | | | | | - Bart Cuypers
- Institute of Tropical Medicine and the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
| | - Sayane Shome
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa USA
| | - Alexander Miguel Monzon
- Structural Bioinformatics Group, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - Julien Fumey
- Human Genetics and Cognitive Function, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
| | - Farzana Rahman
- Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK
| |
Collapse
|
|
3
|
Monzon AM, Hasenahuer MA, Mancini E, Coimbra N, Cravero F, Cáceres-Molina J, Ramírez-Sarmiento CA, Palopoli N, Meysman P, Parra RG. Second ISCB Latin American Student Council Symposium (LA-SCS) 2016. F1000Res 2017; 6:ISCB Comm J-1491. [PMID: 28928937 PMCID: PMC5580427 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.12321.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
This report summarizes the scientific content and activities of the second edition of the Latin American Symposium (LA-SCS), organized by the Student Council (SC) of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), held in conjunction with the Fourth Latin American conference from the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB-LA 2016) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 19, 2016.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Alexander Miguel Monzon
- Structural Bioinformatics Group, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, B1876BXD, Argentina
| | - Marcia A. Hasenahuer
- Structural Bioinformatics Group, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, B1876BXD, Argentina
| | - Estefanía Mancini
- Regulation of Alternative pre-mRNA Splicing during Cell Differentiation, Development and Disease, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Nilson Coimbra
- Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 31270-90, Brazil
| | - Fiorella Cravero
- Chemoinformatics Group, Process Engineering PLAPIQUI (UNS-CONICET), Bahía Blanca, 8000, Argentina
| | - Javier Cáceres-Molina
- Laboratorio de Fisiología y Genómica de Frutales, Centro de Biotecnología Vegetal (CBV), Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile
| | - César A. Ramírez-Sarmiento
- Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, Schools of Engineering, Medicine and Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
| | - Nicolas Palopoli
- Structural Bioinformatics Group, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, B1876BXD, Argentina
- Structural Bioinformatics Unit, Fundación Instituto Leloir, IIBBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, C1405BWE, Argentina
| | - Pieter Meysman
- Biomedical Informatics Research Center Antwerp (biomina), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, 2000, Belgium
- Advanced Database Research and Modelling (ADReM), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, 2000, Belgium
| | - R. Gonzalo Parra
- Quantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, 37077, Germany
| |
Collapse
|
|
4
|
White B, Fatima V, Fatima N, Das S, Rahman F, Hassan M. Highlights of the 2 (nd) Bioinformatics Student Symposium by ISCB RSG-UK. F1000Res 2016; 5. [PMID: 27239284 PMCID: PMC4870987 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.8445.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Following the success of the 1
st Student Symposium by ISCB RSG-UK, a 2
nd Student Symposium took place on 7
th October 2015 at The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK. This short report summarizes the main highlights from the 2
nd Bioinformatics Student Symposium.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
| | - Vayani Fatima
- Algorithms and Bioinformatics Group, King's College London, London, UK
| | - Nazeefa Fatima
- Eukaryotic Evolution Research Group, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
| | - Sayoni Das
- Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, UK
| | - Farzana Rahman
- School of Computing and Mathematics, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK
| | - Mehedi Hassan
- School of Computing and Mathematics, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK
| |
Collapse
|
|
5
|
Rahman F, Farmer R, Das S, Vayani F, Hassan M. Highlights of the 1st Student Symposium of the ISCB RSG UK. F1000Res 2015; 4:154. [PMID: 26998223 PMCID: PMC4786907 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.6616.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
This short report summarises the scientific content and activities of a student-led event, the 1st student symposium by the UK Regional Student Group of the International Society for Computational Biology. The event took place on the 8th of October 2014.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Farzana Rahman
- School of Computing and Mathematics, University of South Wales, Cardiff, CF37 1DL, UK
| | - Rohit Farmer
- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, UK, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
| | - Sayoni Das
- Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
| | - Fatima Vayani
- Algorithms and Bioinformatics Group, King's College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
| | - Mehedi Hassan
- School of Computing and Mathematics, University of South Wales, Cardiff, CF37 1DL, UK
| |
Collapse
|
|
6
|
Highlights from the Third International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) European Student Council Symposium 2014. BMC Bioinformatics 2015; 16 Suppl 3:A1-9. [PMID: 25708611 PMCID: PMC4340122 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-16-s3-a1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
Abstract
In this meeting report, we give an overview of the talks, presentations and posters presented at the third European Symposium of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council. The event was organized as a satellite meeting of the 13th European Conference for Computational Biology (ECCB) and took place in Strasbourg, France on September 6th, 2014.
Collapse
|
|
7
|
Parra RG, Simonetti FL, Hasenahuer MA, Olguin-Orellana GJ, Shanmugam AK. Highlights from the 1st ISCB Latin American Student Council Symposium 2014. Introduction. BMC Bioinformatics 2014; 16 Suppl 8:A1. [PMID: 25955751 PMCID: PMC4423572 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-16-s8-a1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
This report summarizes the scientific content and activities of the first edition of the Latin American Symposium organized by the Student Council of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), held in conjunction with the Third Latin American conference from the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB-LA 2014) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on October 27, 2014.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- R Gonzalo Parra
- Protein Physiology Lab, Departamento de Química Biológica IQUIBICEN-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | | | | | - Gabriel J Olguin-Orellana
- Laboratory of Structural Biology and Nanophysiology of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
| | - Avinash K Shanmugam
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
| |
Collapse
|