Dear Colleagues, The first European Student Council Symposium (ESCS1) will be held on September 26, 2010 in Ghent, Belgium, as a satellite meeting of the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB). You can register to the student symposium even if you do not attend ECCB. It only costs 100 euros, but will be 150 euros after the early registration deadline. The Student Symposium accepts late poster submissions till August 16, with notification on August 18. We actively encourage you to submit work you are presenting at ECCB to the Student Symposium as well. === LATE POSTER DEADLINE: Aug 16, 2010 === http://escs.iscbsc.org/abstract-submission === EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Aug 20, 2010 === http://escs.iscbsc.org/registration The program is available on our website and includes: - a keynote presentation by Yves Van de Peer about Generating hypotheses for molecular biology through (top-down) systems biology - a soft skill workshop on the use of theatre skills for presenting - student presentations from abstract submissions - a poster session See http://escs.iscbsc.org/program Looking forward to seeing you in Belgium! Magali Michaut ESCS1 chair Thomas Abeel ESCS1 co-chair