Dear All,

 

The ISCB Student Council is excited to announce the 13th Student Council Symposium (SCS) which will be hosted, preceding ISMB/ECCB 2017, at the Prague Congress Centre in Czech Republic on July 21, 2017. The SCS is an annual student-organized event, with a goal to highlight latest research from a wide variety of subfields of bioinformatics and computational biology.

 

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.

 

We are also pleased to announce our keynote speakers: Professor Christine Orengo from University College London (UCL), and Dr. Johannes Söding from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. 

 

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 online.

 

Please submit your abstract soon for poster and/or an oral presentation! The deadline is approaching fast (May 14, 2017).

 

Key Dates:

May 14, 2017                        Abstract Call Closes

May 14, 2017                        Travel Fellowship Call Closes

July 21, 2017                        13th Annual Student Council Symposium

 

You can help us spread the word by sharing the event flyer (please find it attached) and using the hashtag #SCS17 on social media.

We look forward to welcome you in Prague this summer!

 

The SCS2017 Organizing Committee