Dear students and young researchers, The ISMB/ECCB 2013 Conference is just a few months away and the opportunities to participate beyond attending are closing soon. The Student Council Symposium and the Art & Science Exhibition are highlighted below. ****************** _ISCB Student Council Symposium 2013_ *The ISCB Student Council Symposium will be held on July 19th (directly preceding ISMB/ECCB 2013) in Berlin, Germany.* *UPCOMING ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: Tuesday, April 16th* The Student Council Symposium is a forum for students, post docs, and young researchers in the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Participants have the opportunity to present their work to an international audience, build a network within the computational biology community and develop important soft skills in an environment that fosters exchange of ideas and knowledge. We encourage you to submit an abstract and to bring a poster for showcasing your work at the Symposium's poster session. As a central part of the Symposium, ten abstracts will be selected for an oral presentation. We accept abstracts covering both scientific studies as well as novel tools and applications in the field of computational biology and bioinformatics. Travel fellowships will be available for accepted abstracts, and awards will be given to best posters and presentations. *LINKS* _Symposium website_: http://symposium.iscbsc.org/ _Submission link_: http://www.iscb.org/submissions/index.php?id=156 _Travel Fellowships information_: http://symposium.iscbsc.org/content/travel-fellowships *IMPORTANT DATES* April 16: Abstract submission deadline April 26: Travel Fellowship submission deadline April 30: Abstract acceptance notifications May 14: Travel fellowship acceptance notifications July 19th: Student Council Symposium 2013 ****************** _Art & Science Exhibition_ ISMB/ECCB brings together scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. In these fields we are constantly dealing with information in visual form: from microscope images and photographs of gels to scatter plots, network graphs and phylogenetic trees, and visual aids for problem-solving are omnipresent. For the ISMB/ECCB 2013 Art & Science Exhibition the organizers invite all interested conference attendees to submit such images and videos that have been generated as part of a research project. They are also soliciting images and videos resulting from creative efforts that involve scientific concepts or employ scientific tools and methods. All cover images produced by researchers for scientific journals are welcome as well. A cash award may be given for the winning image as voted by conference attendees. *LINKS* _Website_: https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2013-submission/ismbeccb2013-artandscienceexhib... _Submissions link_: http://www.iscb.org/submissions/index.php?id=149 *IMPORTANT DATES* May 13: Submissions deadline ****************** We look forward to receiving your submissions! Tomás Di Domenico (Chair, SCS2013) Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern (Chair, Art & Science Exhibition 2013)