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, 8) , Sayane Shome (9) , Alexander Miguel Monzon (10) , Julien Fumey (11) , Farzana Rahman (1)

1 USW - University of South Wales
2 University of Luxembourg [Luxembourg]
3 CMU - Carnegie Mellon University [Pittsburgh]
4 Lund University [Lund]
5 Stanford University
6 EMBL - European Molecular Biology Laboratory [Heidelberg]
7 ITM - Institute of Tropical Medicine [Antwerp]
8 UA - University of Antwerp
9 ISU - Iowa State University
10 UNQ - Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
11 GHFC (UMR_3571 / U-Pasteur_1) - Génétique humaine et fonctions cognitives - Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions

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

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Mehedi Hassan, Aishwarya Alex Namasivayam, Dan Deblasio, Nazeefa Fatima, Benjamin Siranosian, et al.. Reflections on a journey: a retrospective of the ISCB Student Council symposium series. BMC Bioinformatics, 2018, 19 (S12), pp.347. ⟨10.1186/s12859-018-2369-x⟩. ⟨pasteur-04067119⟩