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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The ISCB Student Council is excited to announce the
<b>13th Student Council Symposium (SCS)</b> which will be hosted, preceding <b>ISMB/ECCB 2017</b>, at the Prague Congress Centre in Czech Republic on July 21, 2017. The
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">SCS is an annual student-organized event, with a goal to</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> highlight latest research from a wide variety of
subfields of bioinformatics and computational biology. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">The SCS 2017 will include keynote talks, contributed talks, poster session, and a social event in the evening. The symposium is a great
opportunity to hear talks from an international group of students, learn about latest advances in computational biology, and build a worldwide scientific network.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">We are also pleased to announce our keynote speakers:
<b>Professor Christine Orengo</b> from University College London (UCL), and <b>Dr. Johannes Söding
</b>from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">Prof. Orengo is an expert in bioinformatics and her research group, at UCL, focuses on understanding how protein domains are conserved
over evolutionary time and developing methods to predict protein function. Dr. Söding is specialized in the development of statistical methods for the detection of distant evolutionary relationships on protein sequences. Additional keynote information can
be found </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://symposium.iscbsc.org/scs2017-keynotes" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:white" lang="EN-US">online</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">Please
<b>submit your abstract soon </b>for poster and/or an oral presentation! The deadline is approaching fast (<b>May 14, 2017</b>).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">Key Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">May 14, 2017 Abstract Call Closes<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">May 14, 2017 Travel Fellowship Call Closes</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">July 21, 2017 13th Annual Student Council Symposium</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">You can help us spread the word by sharing the event flyer (please find it attached) and using the hashtag
<b>#SCS17</b> on social media.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:#222222;background:white">We look forward to welcome you in Prague this summer!<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">The SCS2017 Organizing Committee<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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