LA-SCS2024

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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

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Venue: Medellin, Colombia

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NOV 12th

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OPENING SOON - REGISTRATION

Abstract Submission

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Any doubts regarding how to submit? Watch the video below!

Detailed guidelines

  1. Your work should broadly fall into the domain of bioinformatics and computational biology.
  2. Unpublished works are encouraged, but we accept both your own unpublished and published work (but has never been submitted to ISCB Student Council Symposium before).
  3. 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).
  4. Please keep the abstract title as concise as possible, while still effectively representing your research.
  5. The abstract should not exceed 250 words and must be structured into four separate sections:
    1. Background: the context and purpose of the study
    2. Methodology
    3. Result: significant findings from the study
    4. Conclusions: brief summary and potential implications
  6. Your abstract must not contain your title/position or personal information (e.g., affiliation). These details will be collected through the submission system.
  7. 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).
  8. One person can deliver one presentation only (not more than one).
  9. The presenting author must be a part of the original research work.
  10. 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.
  11. 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

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Registration
8:50- 9:00 Opening of LASCS2024
09:00-09:45 Keynote talk: "Computational methods for the discovery of nanobiomaterials: from quantum and hybrid methods to the transformative role of AI" - Dr. Olga Lopez-Acevedo
09:45 -10:00 Structural characterization of FAZ 10 protein in Trypanosoma brucei - Cleidy Osorio
10:00 -10:15 Generation of hypothetical models of new proteins identified in the transcriptome of the venom glands of Bothrops asper and Bothrops jararaca. - Joseph Angulo
10:15 -10:30 Target Pathogen 2.0: An Automated Bioinformatics Tool for Drug Discovery in Bacterial Genomes - Gabriel Garcia
10:30 -11:45 Enhanced Prediction of Protein-Carbohydrate Complexes through Guided Docking with new AutoDock Vina Site - Jorge Octavio Lannot
10:45 -11:30 Break/Break/Poster presentations
11:30 -11:45 Metabolic modeling for understanding the pathogenicity of Phytophthora palmivora in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis). - Luisa Mejia-Sequera
11:45 -12:00 Performance Evaluation of a DNA Sequence Coding Scheme Based on Physicochemical Properties in Deep Learning - Daniela Sánchez-Aristizábal
12:00 -12:15 Characterization of the aerobiome present in PM2.5 during 2022-2023 in Aburrá Valley - Simon Villegas and Juan Pablo Hernández Ortiz
12:15 -12:30 The PyLadies Bioinfo initiative: promoting bioinformatics among women - Natalia Coutouné 
12:30 -13:30 Lunch/Poster presentations
13:30 -14:15 Keynote talk: "Data science at the intersection of diverse application areas" - Dr. Alberto Delgado
14:15 -14:30 LASSO-based Genome-Wide Association Studies and genomic selection for height rate estimation on oil palm. - Juan Malagón
14:30 -14:45 Transcriptomic analysis uncovering markers of chronic fatigue syndrome post-chikungunya infection - Raissa Medina Santos
14:45 -15:00 Multiomics unveils the unifying molecular phenotype of fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma and its differences from other liver cancers - David Requena
15:00 -15:15 The Bioinformatics-assisted Review - Diego A. Bonilla
15:15 -15:30 Coexpression analysis coupled with gene regulatory network reveal Master Regulators in mouse hearts induced by angiotensin II - Sebastián Urquiza-Zurich
15:45 - 16:30 Roundtable: "Breaking Barriers: Educational Challenges in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Latin America"
16:30 Closing and Awards Ceremony

Abstract Submission

-CLOSED-

Any doubts regarding how to submit? Watch the video below!

Detailed guidelines

  1. Your work should broadly fall into the domain of bioinformatics and computational biology.
  2. 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).
  3. 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).
  4. Please keep the abstract title as concise as possible, while still effectively representing your research.
  5. The abstract should not exceed 250 words and must be structured into four separate sections:
    1. Background: the context and purpose of the study
    2. Methodology
    3. Result: significant findings from the study
    4. Conclusions: brief summary and potential implications
  6. Your abstract must not contain your title/position or personal information (e.g., affiliation). These details will be collected through the submission system.
  7. 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).
  8. One person can deliver one presentation only (not more than one).
  9. The presenting author must be a part of the original research work.
  10. 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.
  11. Please do not use abbreviations or references in the abstract.

For any other queries, please write to us at lascs@iscbsc.org

Abstract Submission

-CLOSED-

Any doubts regarding how to submit? Watch the video below!

Detailed guidelines

  1. Your work should broadly fall into the domain of bioinformatics and computational biology.
  2. 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).
  3. 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).
  4. Please keep the abstract title as concise as possible, while still effectively representing your research.
  5. The abstract should not exceed 250 words and must be structured into four separate sections:
    1. Background: the context and purpose of the study
    2. Methodology
    3. Result: significant findings from the study
    4. Conclusions: brief summary and potential implications
  6. Your abstract must not contain your title/position or personal information (e.g., affiliation). These details will be collected through the submission system.
  7. 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).
  8. One person can deliver one presentation only (not more than one).
  9. The presenting author must be a part of the original research work.
  10. 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.
  11. Please do not use abbreviations or references in the abstract.

For any other queries, please write to us at lascs@iscbsc.org

Keynote speakers

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Dr. Olga Lopez-Acevedo

Institute of Physics of Universidad de Antioquia

Colombia

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Dr. Alberto Santos

Scientific Director at the

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability

Denmark

Roundtable Panellist

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Dr. David Requena

New York University

New York Genome Center

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Dr. Liliana Lopez-Kleine

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Colombia

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Dr. Carlos Modenutti

National Research Council

Argentina

Organising committee

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Jennifer Vélez, Chair

RSG-Colombia

Master in bioinformatics

National University of Colombia

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Estefania Torrejón, Chair

RSG-Peru

PhD Student

NOVA Medical School, Portugal

Program committee

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Sergio Andrés Castañeda Garzón

Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología

de la Universidad del Rosario (CIMBIUR). Colombia

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Elias Ciudad Leon

Estudiante de 4to año de Bioinformática

(St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX)

Perú

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Sebastián Ignacio Urquiza Zurich

Centro Avanzado en Enfermedades Crónicas (ACCDiS)

Universidad de Chile

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Edwin Jose Cañate Rueda

Medico - Universidad de Cartagena

Colombia

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Cleidy Osorio Mogollón

University of Sao Paulo

 Brazil

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Carla Padilla Franzotti

Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

Structural Bioinformatics Group (SBG) - CONICET

Design committee

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Ashitha Washington

Phd student

NIT Calicut India

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Clara Divy Rodríguez Aredo

Estudiante de 4to año de Farmacia y Bioquímica

Universidad Nacional de Trujillo

Perú

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Maria Balderrama González

 Ingeniera en Biotecnología (ITESM)

México

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Ximena Leal Escobar

Estudiante de Comunicación visual

Universidad de la Comunicación

México

Webpage committee

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Oscar Alexis Quintero Lopez

Estudiante Maestria en Bioinformatica

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Colombia

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Braulio Rodrigo Torrejon Navarro

Estudiante de Ingenieria de software

Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas

Perú

Social Media committee

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Andrea Peñas Ballesteros

CITNOBA (UNNOBA - UNSAdA - CONICET)

INTA-EEA Pergamino/ UNNOBA

Argentina

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Franco Javier Huaccha Cáceres

Estudiante de Maestría en Biología Molecular

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Perú

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 José Antonio Jiménez Guerra

Egresado de Genética y Biotecnología de la

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Perú

Finance and Fellowship committee

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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

"Exciting news! We're now open for sponsorship opportunities for the Latin American Student Council Symposium (LA-SCS 2024). Join us in supporting this prestigious event, bringing together student leaders and change-makers from across Latin America. Elevate your brand, connect with future innovators, and be part of a platform that inspires the next generation. Explore our sponsorship packages and make a lasting impact at LA-SCS2024! "

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