Highlights from the 5th International Society for Computational Biology Student Council Symposium at the 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the 8th European Conference on Computational Biology.

Lucia Peixoto,Jeroen de Ridder,Thomas Abeel

doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-s13-i1

Abstract

This meeting report gives an overview of the keynote lectures and a selection of the student presentations at the 5th International Society for Computational Biology Student Council Symposium at the 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB). The symposium was held in Stockholm, Sweden from June 27 to July 2, 2009. We also report on other Student Council events that were organized at ISMB/ECCB 2009.

Highlights

The Student Council has organized an annual student symposium for the benefit of the student community. This year the fifth Student Council Symposium was held in conjunction with the joint Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) conferences on June 27th
Thanks to our generous sponsors, we were able to hand out nine travel fellowships to help cover expenses for students to attend ISMB/ECCB and the Student Council Symposium
Student Council Career Central (SCCC) provides a platform for research institutes and companies to attract some of the best talents in computational biology from the Student Council community and attendees at International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) conferences all over the world

Summary

Introduction

This year the fifth Student Council Symposium was held in conjunction with the joint ISMB and ECCB conferences on June 27th. The symposium featured three keynote lectures, a research partner session with two speakers, a tutorial, a panel discussion, nine student presentations and a poster session. The fourteen abstracts can be grouped in four very broad categories: (i) functional genomics and gene expression, (ii) protein structure and function, (iii) evolution and population biology and (iv) next-generation sequencing analysis and applications.

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