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ISCB Student Council Overview For the Student Council this is another year full of exciting developments and our packed schedule of events at ISMB 2010 is only part of a much bigger picture. This year Student Council activities are taking place for the duration of the whole ISMB conference. Our annual Student Council Symposium, as in previous years, is held on the day before the official ISMB opening and our Art and Science Exhibition, now in its third year, will be open for the duration of the conference. Our volunteers will be staffing the Student Council booth in the exhibition area where career advice sessions and job boards will be available. We will also be running an information session about career opportunities for early career scientists. A series of non-scientific networking events will be taking place at our “Social HQ” during ISMB. Come to our booth to find out more! We are also very pleased to be able to reach out to the student community beyond ISMB throughout the whole year. This is possible to a large extent due to an increasing number of volunteers, who are committed to developing the computational biology student community. For instance, the Student Council is currently in the process of developing a series of new educational and career resources for our website that will be available to students and early career researchers anywhere and anytime. Another ongoing effort is an internship program that we are establishing in collaboration with labs that are willing to host a student for a few months. Our biggest area of growth is our Regional Student Groups initiative, which now comprises an impressive 19 groups in six continents. These groups are run by an ever-increasing number of local student volunteers, and cater to the specific needs of their community. Through their affiliation with us, Regional Student Groups are provided with opportunities to get in touch with community leaders elsewhere and with access to our expertise and resources. This year, for the first time, ISCB has provided the Student Council with funds to grant financial support for projects run by Regional Student Groups. In the first round of funding 10 proposals were submitted and we expect to fund two projects this summer and two further projects in a second round. Did this pique your interest? We are doing our best to make staying in touch with the Student Council as easy as possible: our announcements are posted on our Facebook group, our LinkedIn group and on Twitter, and of course on www.iscbsc.org. Why don’t you stop by and have a look around? 
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