Abstract
Regional Student Groups are groups established and managed by the ISCB-Student Council in different regions of the world. The article highlights some of the initiatives and management lessons from our 'top-performing' Spotlight Regional Student Groups (RSGs), RSG-Argentina and RSG-UK, for the current year (2016). In addition, it details some of the operational hurdles faced by RSGs and possible solutions.
Highlights
Since its inception in 2004, the ISCB-Student Council Regional Student Group (RSG) program has burgeoned to 29 Regional Student Groups (RSGs), which are actively operating in various parts of the world
We highlight some of the initiatives and management lessons from our ‘top-performing’ Spotlight RSGs of the year 2016
We elaborate some of the key challenges RSGs face and case studies of how they resolved these
Summary
Since its inception in 2004, the ISCB-Student Council Regional Student Group (RSG) program has burgeoned to 29 RSGs, which are actively operating in various parts of the world. Spotlight RSG of the year 2016: RSG-Argentina Since its initiation in 2012, RSG-Argentina has grown steadily, organizing different events, including workshops, local meetings and expanding its regional influence on a continuous learning path full of valuable lessons[3]. In 2016, RSG-Argentina organized its first independent event, the 1st SAJIB (the Argentine Symposium for Young Researchers in Bioinformatics).
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