<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#000000"></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>ISCB Student Council Symposium 2014, Boston, USA.</b></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Call for Abstract open from February 10th, 2014</b></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Dear Colleagues,</font></div><div class="gmail_default">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">We are pleased to announce that the call is now open for the submission of abstracts to the </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">10th ISCB Student Council Symposium, to be held on the 11 of July 2014 in Boston, USA, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">as a satellite meeting of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Biology (ISMB).</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">The Student Council Symposium is a forum for students, post docs, and young researchers </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">in the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Participants will have the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">opportunity to present their work to an international audience of young scientists, build a </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">network within the computational biology community and develop important soft skills in an </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">environment that fosters exchange of ideas and knowledge.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">We encourage you to submit an abstract to showcase your work at the Symposium’s </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">poster session. As the central part of our symposium, 10 abstracts will be selected for an </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">oral presentation. Awards will be given to outstanding posters and presentations. Travel </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">fellowships will be available and candidates with accepted abstracts will be invited to apply.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b>Important Dates:</b></span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">April 18, 2014: Submission closes</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">April 25, 2014: Acceptance notifications</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">May 2, 2014: Travel fellowship deadline</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">July 11, 2014: Student Council Symposium</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Submit your work at <a href="http://scs2014.iscbsc.org/scs14-call">http://scs2014.iscbsc.org/scs14-call</a> .</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">For updates and news, keep an eye on symposium website <a href="http://scs2014.iscbsc.org/">http://scs2014.iscbsc.org/</a> .</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We look forward to receiving your abstract.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br>
</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">On behalf of the SCS organizers,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Farzana Rahman (Chair)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Tomás Di Domenico (Co-Chair)</span></div>
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