Dear Colleagues, The abstract submission deadline has been extended to accommodate late breaking research! 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). === ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 26, 2010 === http://escs.iscbsc.org/submission/ 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 We invite you to submit an abstract. This is your chance to present your work! We accept abstracts covering both scientific studies as well as novel tools and applications in the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. A few abstracts will be selected for oral presentations. Other interesting contributions will be accepted for poster presentations. Looking forward to receiving your abstract! Magali Michaut ESCS1 chair Thomas Abeel ESCS1 co-chair