Latin American Student Council Symposium 2024
The ISCB Student Council and its Regional Student Groups are thrilled to announce the 6th Latin American Student Council Symposium (LA-SCS 2024), which will be held on November 12th in a hybrid format in Medellín, Colombia. This event is primarily designed for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology.
Attendees can showcase their research to a global audience, establish connections within the computational biology community, and enhance soft skills in a collaborative environment that encourages the exchange of ideas and knowledge.
This year’s edition features:
Keynote talks
Best poster and best talk prizes
Ice-breaking and networking sessions
Many more exciting and new segments
This event precedes ISCB-LATAM SoIBio CCBCOL 2024, and registration will be handled through the ISCB conference's registration system.
We hope to meet you in November!!
The LASCS2024 Organizing Team
Venue: Medellin, Colombia
NOV 12th
OPENING SOON - REGISTRATION
Abstract Submission
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Any doubts regarding how to submit? Watch the video below!
Detailed guidelines
- Your work should broadly fall into the domain of bioinformatics and computational biology.
- Unpublished works are encouraged, but we accept both your own unpublished and published work (but has never been submitted to ISCB Student Council Symposium before).
- All abstracts will be evaluated based on scientific relevance criteria (i.e. 1. clarity, 2. usability, 3. uniqueness, 4. relevance to the CompBio field, and 5. completeness).
- Please keep the abstract title as concise as possible, while still effectively representing your research.
- The abstract should not exceed 250 words and must be structured into four separate sections:
- Background: the context and purpose of the study
- Methodology
- Result: significant findings from the study
- Conclusions: brief summary and potential implications
- Your abstract must not contain your title/position or personal information (e.g., affiliation). These details will be collected through the submission system.
- The presentation is individual (having multiple co-authors is okay, but only the presenting author will get the presentation/award certificate. All authors’ information will be included in the abstract book).
- One person can deliver one presentation only (not more than one).
- The presenting author must be a part of the original research work.
- Submitters may choose to have their submission reviewed for “oral only”, “oral or poster,” or “poster only”. If you select “oral or poster,” your abstract will first be considered for an oral presentation. If, unfortunately, it doesn’t secure an oral presentation slot, it will be evaluated for potential inclusion in the poster presentation category.
- Please do not use abbreviations or references in the abstract.
For any other queries, please write to us at lascs@iscbsc.org
Registration
Program Outline
8:00 | Registration |
9:00 - 9:45 | Keynote talk |
9:45 - 10:30 | Flash talks |
10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
11:00 - 12:30 | Flash talks |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 - 15:00 | Flash talks |
15:00 - 15:15 | Break |
15:15 - 16:00 | Keynote talk |
Keynote speakers
Dr. Olga Lopez-Acevedo
Institute of Physics of Universidad de Antioquia
Colombia
Dr. Alberto Santos
Scientific Director at the
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability
Denmark
Roundtable Panellist
Dr. David Requena
New York University
New York Genome Center
Dr. Liliana Lopez-Kleine
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Colombia
Dr. Carlos Modenutti
National Research Council
Argentina
Organising committee
Jennifer Vélez, Chair
RSG-Colombia
Master in bioinformatics
National University of Colombia
Estefania Torrejón, Chair
RSG-Peru
PhD Student
NOVA Medical School, Portugal
Program committee
Sergio Andrés Castañeda Garzón
Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología
de la Universidad del Rosario (CIMBIUR). Colombia
Elias Ciudad Leon
Estudiante de 4to año de Bioinformática
(St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX)
Perú
Sebastián Ignacio Urquiza Zurich
Centro Avanzado en Enfermedades Crónicas (ACCDiS)
Universidad de Chile
Edwin Jose Cañate Rueda
Medico - Universidad de Cartagena
Colombia
Cleidy Osorio Mogollón
University of Sao Paulo
Brazil
Carla Padilla Franzotti
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
Structural Bioinformatics Group (SBG) - CONICET
Design committee
Ashitha Washington
Phd student
NIT Calicut India
Clara Divy Rodríguez Aredo
Estudiante de 4to año de Farmacia y Bioquímica
Universidad Nacional de Trujillo
Perú
Maria Balderrama González
Ingeniera en Biotecnología (ITESM)
México
Ximena Leal Escobar
Estudiante de Comunicación visual
Universidad de la Comunicación
México
Webpage committee
Oscar Alexis Quintero Lopez
Estudiante Maestria en Bioinformatica
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Colombia
Braulio Rodrigo Torrejon Navarro
Estudiante de Ingenieria de software
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
Perú
Social Media committee
Andrea Peñas Ballesteros
CITNOBA (UNNOBA - UNSAdA - CONICET)
INTA-EEA Pergamino/ UNNOBA
Argentina
Franco Javier Huaccha Cáceres
Estudiante de Maestría en Biología Molecular
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Perú
José Antonio Jiménez Guerra
Egresado de Genética y Biotecnología de la
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Perú
Finance and Fellowship committee
Juan Pablo Anaya Villamizar
Estudiante de último año de Ing. en Biotecnología
(Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander)
Colombia
Sandra Guauque Olarte
RSG-Peru
PhD Student
NOVA Medical School, Portugal
Sponsorship Opportunities
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