Highlights of the first ISCB Student Council Symposium in Africa 2015

Yassine Souilmi; Imane Allali; Oussama Badad; Chinmay Kumar Dwibedi

doi:10.12688/f1000research.6877.1

Highlights of the first ISCB Student Council Symposium in Africa 2015

F1000Res. 2015 Aug 17:4:ISCB Comm J-569. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.6877.1. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Yassine Souilmi¹, Imane Allali², Oussama Badad², Chinmay Kumar Dwibedi³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Mohamed Vth University, Rabat, 110 066, Morocco; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
² Department of Biology, Mohamed Vth University, Rabat, 110 066, Morocco.
³ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umea University, Umea, 901 87, Sweden; Swedish Defence Research Agency, Umea, 164 90, Sweden.

Abstract

This is a summary of the activities and scientific content of the first International Society for Computational Biology Student Council symposium in Africa. This meeting organized by the students for the students took place 8th of March 2015 in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

Keywords: Africa; Computational biology; ISCB; bioinformatics; student council; symposium.

Grants and funding

ISCB Student Council provided a grant to cover travel fellowships and conference room and logistics. Mohamed Vth University and H3Abionet provided travel fellowships. Laboratory for Personalized Medicine sponsored the training session. Oxford University Press sponsored the best presentation award.