ISCB Newsletter 8-2

Submitted by Sevin Turcan, ISCB Student Council marketing subcommittee member

Below is an exciting listing of planned activities of the ISCB Student Council during ISMB 2005 in Detroit. If you are a student or post doc attending the conference, please check the Program Book for final times and locations of each activity, and be sure to participate in the many events tailored to your needs as a young researcher. You do not need to be an ISCB Student Council member to participate in any of these activities, but we are certain you will be convinced to join by the time ISMB 2005 is over!

Thursday, 23rd June 2005

7:00pm-8:30pm
Informal meeting of the SC leadership and working committees (newcomers
welcome)

Saturday, 25th June 2005

7:00pm-8:30pm
Discussion panel: "Inspiring Role Models: Their Own Experience"

Panel discussion of various experts from different sub-disciplines of
Computational Biology

8:30pm-10:00pm
Networking dinner (individuals pay own way; newcomers welcome)

Sunday, 26th June 2005

9:30am-5:00pm
Scheduled Mentorship Sessions

11:30am-12:30pm
Featured Lecture from Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor at MIT
"Adventures in comparative genomics: from yeast to human"

Monday, 27th June 2005

9:30am-5:00pm
Scheduled Mentorship Sessions

12:15pm-1:15pm
Talk on "Industrial Career Prospects in Computational Biology"
Presented by Stefan Unger, SUN Microsystems Inc.

Tuesday, 28th June 2005

9:30am-5:00pm
Scheduled Mentorship Sessions

12:15pm-1:15pm
Talk on "How to write a paper for publication"
Presented by Philip Bourne, Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology