ISCB-Student Council Narratives: Strategical development of the ISCB-Regional Student Groups in 2016

Sayane Shome; Pieter Meysman; R Gonzalo Parra; Alexander Miguel Monzon; Nicolas Palopoli; Benjamen White; Farzana Rahman; Mehedi Hassan; Zeynep Özkeserli; Efejiro Ashano; V Keith Hughitt; Muhammad Uzair Khan; Denis J Murphy

doi:10.12688/f1000research.10420.1

ISCB-Student Council Narratives: Strategical development of the ISCB-Regional Student Groups in 2016

F1000Res. 2016 Dec 20:5:ISCB Comm J-2882. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.10420.1. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program,, Iowa State University, Ames, USA.
² Advanced Database Research and Modeling group (ADReM), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Biomedical Informatics Research Network Antwerp (biomina), University Hospital Antwerp/University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Protein Physiology Laboratory, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA-CONICET-IQUIBICEN, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Quantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany.
⁴ Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁵ Unidad de Físico Química, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Fundación Instituto Leloir-IIBBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁶ Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.
⁷ Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Wales, UK.
⁸ Medical Biotechnology Program, Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Medical Sciences, Acibadem University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁹ Immuno-virology and Vaccine Development Unit, Medical Biotechnology Department, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria; Bioinformatics Research Group, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.
¹⁰ Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
¹¹ Biotechnology and biotechnology program. Institute of integrative biosciences, CECOS University of Information Technology and Emerging Sciences, KPK, Pakistan.

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.

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; ISCB Student Council; Regional Student Groups; Student organizations; Virtual seminars; Workshops.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The events mentioned in the article were partially supported by funds from ISCB-Student Council, a subsidiary of the International Society for Computational Biology.