3rd ISCB Student Council Symposium (ISMB/ECCB 2007, Austria)

What? The 3rd ISCB Student Council Symposium featuring keynote lectures, oral presentations and a poster session.

When? Saturday, July 21st, 2007. This event directly precedes ISMB/ECCB 2007.

Where? Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Who? Undergraduate and graduate students as well as post-docs in computational biology and related disciplines.

Why? This is once again a unique opportunity to meet fellow students and researchers for networking and exchange of ideas in a great setting.

News [Top]

November 21st - ISCB Student Council Symposium mentioned in a perspective article on student conferences published in Nature Reviews Genetics.
November 20th - The highlights from the symposium have been published as a BMC Bioinformatics supplement.
November 19th - Have a look at our photos of the symposium and other activities at ISMB/ECCB 2008 in our gallery.
September 19th - The evaluation of the symposium is now available for download.
September 9th - The first batch of videos has been linked to the agenda. Names of Best Poster and Best Presentation Award recipients posted.
July 16th - Accepted abstracts and Program Booklet have been posted. All delegates will receive a printed and bound copy of the Program Booklet at the symposium.
July 11th - Student presenters announced and final agenda posted. Please download and read the presentation guidelines if you are presenting a poster or giving an oral presentation.

About the Symposium [Top]

The ISCB Student Council is organizing the 3rd Student Council Symposium to be held on Saturday, July 21st, in parallel to the ISMB/ECCB 2007 tutorial sessions in Vienna, Austria. The Student Council Symposium is a forum for students and young researchers in the field of computational biology. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work to an international audience, build a network within the computational biology community and develop important soft skills in an environment that fosters exchange of ideas and knowledge.

Sponsors [Top]

We gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsors, whose support contributes greatly to the success of the the Student Council Symposium.

Oxford Journals Bioinformatics	European Bioinformatics Institute

BMC Bioinformatics	International BioWiki Contest

Institute for Systems Biology

Speakers and Panelists [Top]

Background information about our speakers can be found in the Program Booklet on pages 4 and 5.

	Keynote Speaker & Panelist Janet Thornton Director European Bioinformatics Institute Cambridge UK		Keynote Speaker & Panelist Anna Tramontano Professor of Biocomputing University of Rome "La Sapienza" Rome Italy
	"Comparative Functional Genomics of Ageing"		"Structural Bioinformatics: Shortcuts and Pitfalls"
	Panelist Rita Casadio Professor of Biophysics University of Bologna Bologna Italy		Panelist Tan Tin Wee Associate Professor National University of Singapore Singapore
	Panel Discussion Moderator Thomas Lengauer Director Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics Saarbruecken Germany		Closing Remarks Reinhard Schneider Team Leader European Molecular Biology Institute Heidelberg Germany

Registration [Top]

Registration for the 3rd ISCB Student Council Symposium is only possible for delegates of the ISMB/ECCB 2007 conference. Please visit the ISMB/ECCB 2007 registration page to sign up for the symposium. You have to select "3rd Student Council Symposium (SCS3)" during the registration process on the page that lists SIGs, Satellite Meetings and Tutorials. If you have previously registered for ISMB/ECCB 2007 and would like to add the Student Council Symposium please send an email to registration07@ismbconf.org to request that you be registered and to arrange payment for participation in the symposium.
This year we will have to charge a registration fee of 55 Euro (this includes 5 Euro Austrian VAT). The fee covers a full day of presentations, a poster session, a program booklet as well as morning and afternoon coffee and lunch.

Abstracts [Top]

The program committee has reviewed all 69 abstracts that have been submitted for presentation at the symposium. All accepted abstracts minus ones that have been withdrawn before July 3rd can be accessed below. Pages 12 to 19 of the Program Booklet contain the summaries of the abstracts in printable form.

A selection of 14 outstanding abstracts along with a meeting report have been published as a BMC Bioinformatics supplement.

Accepted Abstracts by Area of Research

Arrays	Bioinformatics of Health and Disease
Biophysics	Comparative Genomics
Ecosystems and Ecology	Evolution
Gene Prediction	Genomics
Machine Learning	Other
Ontologies	Population Genetics and Variation
Regulation	Sequence Analysis
Structure Prediction	Systems Biology and Networks
Text Mining

Awards & Travel Fellowships [Top]

More information about our awards and travel fellowships can be found in the Program Booklet on page 10.

Travel Fellowships
Sponsored by the European Bioinformatics Institute

Five travel fellowships worth £400 (~$780) are available for undergraduate and masters students who are holding a passport issued by an EU- or EMBC-state. Applicants need to be single first author and presenter of an accepted abstract at the symposium.

Winners

Maital Ashkenazi
Plant Science, Genomics and Bioinformatics
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Javier Carrera
Advanced Studies in Applied Mathematics
Universidad Politecnica Valencia, Spain

Inigo Ortiz de Mendibil Ayuso
Biochemistry
University of Navarra, Spain

Teresa Szczepinska
Bioinformatics
VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands and
Biotechnology
Warsaw University, Poland

Nurcan Tuncbag
Computational Science and Engineering
Koc University, Turkey

For reference: Application Instructions

Questions and comments should be directed to fellowship@iscbsc.org.

Best Presentation Award
Sponsored by Oxford Journals Bioinformatics

A £200 (~$390) prize will be awarded for the best student presentation.

Winner
Adam Margolin, Columbia University

Previous winners:
2006 - Pavol Hanus, TU Munich

Best Poster Awards
Sponsored by BMC Bioinformatics

A £200 (~$390) prize will be awarded for the best student poster and a £100 (~$195) prize will be awarded for the runner-up.

Winner
Elisabeth Georgii, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Runner-Up
Adrien Faure, INSERM ERM206

Previous winners:
2006 - Feng Chen, University of Pennsylvania

Agenda [Top]

Details can be found in the Program Booklet on pages 7 and 8.

Time

Location

Saturday, July 21st

8:30 am

Opening Remarks
Nils Gehlenborg, Conference Chair

8:40 am

Keynote - "Comparative Functional Genomics of Ageing"
Janet Thornton

9:20 am

Presentation - "Semi-supervised class discovery using quantitative phenotypes - CVD as a case study"
Roy Navon, Agilent Technologies / Tel Aviv University, Israel

Presentation - "Genomic Scale Analysis of Lateral Gene Transfer in Apicomplexan Parasites: insights into early eukaryotic evolution, host-pathogen interaction and drug target development"
Lucia Peixoto, University of Pennsylvania, United States

Presentation - "Towards interoperability between anatomy and phenotype ontologies"
Robert Hoehndorf, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Presentation - "Variation of Geometrical and Physicochemical Properties in Protein Binding Pockets and their Ligands"
Abdullah Karhaman, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom

10:40 am

Coffee Break

11:10 am

Presentation - "What is the response? Identifying interesting behaviour in microarray time series data"
Katherine Lawler, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom

Presentation - "ChIP-on-chip significance analysis reveals ubiquitous transcription factor binding"
Adam Margolin, Columbia University, United States

Presentation - "Mining expression-dependent modules in the human interaction network"
Elisabeth Georgii, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Germany

Presentation - "Combining dissimilarity based classifiers for cancer prediction using gene expression profiles"
Angela Blanco, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain

12:30 pm

TBA

Lunch Break

1:10 pm

TBA

Quickfire Session
The quickfire session will give everyone who is interested 1 minute to introduce themselves and their work to the other delegates at the symposium. Not convinced? Have a look at the BioSysBio 2007 quickfire session.

1:30 pm

TBA

Poster Session
Please download and read the presentation guidelines if you are presenting.

3:00 pm

Special Session - BioWiki Contest: an Openfree Project for Bioknowledge Sharing
Jong Bhak

3:20 pm

Keynote - "Structural Bioinformatics: Shortcuts and Pitfalls"
Anna Tramontano

4:00 pm

Awards Ceremony
Winners of Best Presentation Award, Best Poster Awards and Travel Fellowship will be presented with their awards.

4:10 pm

Panel Discussion - "The Future of Bioinformatics"
Panelists are Rita Casadio, Thomas Lengauer, Tan Tin Wee, Janet Thornton and Anna Tramontano.

4:50 pm

Closing Remarks
Reinhard Schneider

5:30 pm

Austria Center

Departure for ISMB/ECCB 2007 Icebreaker Event

8:00 pm

City Hall

ISMB/ECCB 2007 Opening Reception

Time

Location

Monday, July 23rd

12:15 pm

ISCB Student Council Open Meeting - Open to all delegates at ISMB/ECCB 2007
An overview of the past year’s achievements in terms of our mission and projects is on the agenda as well as introduction of ISCB Student Council leaders and acknowledgment of their contributions. The largest part of the meeting will be set for discussion time and suggestions from the audience. Come and help to shape the future of the ISCB Student Council!

9:00 pm

Xpress127

Please register until July 15th!

Room Sharing [Top]

Please post your requests for room sharing on our OpenWetWare Wiki if you are looking for a roommate for the time of the symposium and ISMB/ECCB 2007. We had to move this to the wiki due to problems with the forum. Please post your requests only on the wiki.

Organizing Committee [Top]

Conference Chair Manuel Corpas University of Manchester UK more ...	Conference Chair Nils Gehlenborg EMBL-EBI and University of Cambridge UK more ...	Program Chair Sarath Chandra Janga Center for Genomic Sciences, UNAM Mexico more ...
Vijaya Parthiban Cologne University Bioinformatics Center (CUBIC) Germany	Saraswathi Sundararajan Iowa State University USA	Publicity John Cumbers Brown University USA
Keynote Liaison Xu Gu University of Glasgow UK	Venkata Satagopam EMBL Heidelberg Germany	Fundraising Victor Weigman Jr. Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC USA
Ole Schulz-Trieglaff Free University Berlin Germany	Social Event Organizer Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern Weizmann Institute of Science Israel	Abhishek Pratap VIT University India
Prashanth Suravajhala Roskilde University Denmark more ...	Lucia Peixoto University of Pennsylvania USA	Crina Samarghitean University of Tampere Finland

Please contact the organizing committee at symposium@iscbsc.org.

Program Committee [Top]

Kiran Kumar Battula National Institute of Nutrition, India	Markus Brosch The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Manuel Corpas University of Manchester, UK	Heidi Dvinge European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Segun Fatumo Covenant University, Nigeria	Nils Gehlenborg European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Sarath Chandra Janga Center for Genomic Sciences, UNAM, Mexico	Angela Jean Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Abdullah Kahraman European Bioinformatics Institute, UK	Katherine Lawler European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Margus Lukk European Bioinformatics Institute, UK	Antonia Mayer European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Magali Michaut Institute of Biology and Technologies of Saclay, France	Pieter Monsieurs K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Lucia Peixoto University of Pennsylvania, USA	Dimitri Perrin Dublin City University, Ireland
Abhishek Pratap VIT University, India	Ravindra Pushker University College Dublin, Ireland
Angel-Carlos Roman University of Extremadura, Spain	Aminael Sanchez Rodriguez Institute of Plant Biotechnology, Cuba
Venkata Satagopam EMBL Heidelberg, Germany	Ole Schulz-Trieglaff Free University Berlin, Germany
Aswin Seshasaye European Bioinformatics Institute, UK	Saraswathi Sundarajan Iowa State University, USA
Prashanth Suravajhala Roskilde University, Denmark	Andrija Tomovic Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
Mallika Veeramalai Burnham Institute for Medical Research, USA	Victor Weigman University of North Carolina, USA
Daniel Zerbino European Bioinformatics Institute, UK

Posters [Top]

Here's your chance to help the Student Council to promote the symposium. Print one (or all!) of our posters and post it on the bulletin board of your department, on the door of your office or any other place where plenty of students will see it.
We've created a color as well as a black-and-white version of each of our posters to suit your printer. Please don't print the color version on a black-and-white printer - the poster will be really hard to read. The posters are available in A4 format only. If the paper in your country comes in letter format make sure your PDF reader scales the poster correctly before printing otherwise important information might get lost.


Color or B/W	Color or B/W	Color or B/W	Color or B/W

Please take the posters down after the symposium is over and recycle the paper. You'll be doing everyone a favor.

Previous ISCB Student Council Symposia [Top]

2. ISCB Student Council Symposium at ISMB 2006 in Fortaleza, Brazil

The webpages for this symposium are still available here. Have a look at the photos!

The success of the symposium in 2005 encouraged the leadership of the ISCB Student Council to organize a very similiar event as part of ISMB 2006 in Fortaleza, Brazil. Even though the symposium was held on the same day as the tutorials of ISMB over 80 delegates registered for this event, which had a strong focus on career-development and networking within the bioinformatics community. Keynote speakers Phil Bourne, Reinhard Schneider and Julio Collado-Vides dedicated time to these issues in their keynote presentations, while then-ISCB President Michael Gribskov discussed his vision of where computational biology is heading in the 21st century in his closing remarks.
Many students and young researchers used the opportunity to present their work at the event and submitted more than 35 abstracts. The best 10 were selected for oral presentation, while a poster session allowed also the remaining submitters to present their work. Awards were given to the authors of the best presentation and the best poster. The day was closed by a social event in one of Fortaleza's best steakhouses, which was another highlight of this very successful 2nd ISCB Student Council Symposium.

1. ISCB Student Council Symposium at ECCB 2005 in Madrid, Spain

The 1st ISCB Student Council Symposium was held on 28th of September immediately preceding ECCB 2005 in Madrid. We initiated the review process of student abstracts and were pleasantly surprised by the quality and quantity of abstracts submitted. We received over 60 abstracts in 7 different categories covering a wide range of topics within computational biology. From these we selected 20 for oral presentation on the symposium and another 36 for poster presentations at ECCB. For more information on the 1st International Student Council Symposium in Computational Biology please visit http://www.eccb05.org/student.htm.

An evaluation of this event can be downloaded along with the corresponding questionnaire can be downloaded as PDFs: Evaluation, Questionnaire.

Other Student Council Activities [Top]

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