Exciting Opportunities Ahead! Join the ISCB Student Council as we organize our stellar symposia around the globe in 2026! 📍 Where will our symposia be? • 22nd Student Council Symposium (SCS2026) – Washington, USA Preceding ISMB | 12 July 2026 • 9th European Student Council Symposium (ESCS2026) – Geneva, Switzerland During ECCB | September 2026 • 7th Latin American Student Council Symposium (LASCS2026) – Lima, Peru During ISCB-LATAM | November 2026 • 5th Asian Student Council Symposium (ASCS2026) – Location TBD We’re looking for enthusiastic, motivated students to join our organizing committees and help make these events exceptional. 🕒 Applications are OPEN! 📅 Deadline: December 18, 2025, at 8 pm CET (Applications received afterwards may be considered on a rolling basis if needed.) 👉 Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Let’s create unforgettable symposia together! #ISCBSC #SymposiumOrganizers #StudentOpportunities

The wait is almost over. Here is everything you need to know about the Edusearch Series with PDBe-KB Episdoe 1. Diverse scientists, graduate students, and structural biology enthusiasts from Pakistan, India, South Korea, Turkey, Nigeria, and Bangladesh are logging in live to master The AlphaFold Database with EMBL-PDBe. If your registration form isn't submitted yet, this is your final wake-up call. WHY YOU CANNOT MISS THIS LIVE SESSION: • Direct training from an EMBL-EBI scientific insider. • Live walk-throughs of tool updates you won't find in old YouTube tutorials. • International participation certificate eligibility (for registered attendees). 👇 SET YOUR LOCAL ALARMS NOW: ⏰ PKT (Pakistan): 3:00 PM ⏰ IST (India): 3:30 PM ⏰ BST (Bangladesh): 4:00 PM ⏰ WAT (Nigeria): 11:00 AM ⏰ KST (South Korea): 7:00 PM Charge your laptops, test your internet connectivity, and bring your notebooks. Let’s show the world the strength of our regional bioinformatics community! 🔗 LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: forms.gle/3JNnHHS6WCyLXF5F8 #Bioinformatics #Countdown #AlphaFold #ProteinStructure #ComputationalBiologist #Biotech @RSG_KOREA @RSGBangladesh @ISCB_RSG_India @rsg_pakistan @RSG_nigeria @emblebi @iscb

🎤 MEET THE EXPERT: Introducing our Guest Speaker for Episode 1! To master world-class databases, you need to learn directly from the scientists who manage them. For our opening session on The AlphaFold Database, we are incredibly honored to host an expert from the core EMBL-EBI team in Cambridge, UK! 👤 Speaker: Razan Abbara 💼 Role: Training Specialist for the AlphaFold data base (AFDB) 🏛️ Institution: European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), United Kingdom Our distinguished speaker will take us behind the scenes of how hundreds of millions of AI-predicted models are curated, cross-referenced, and optimized for global research workflows. This isn't just a passive lecture, this is your direct channel to get your pipeline bottlenecks answered during our interactive live Q&A session. Bring your project questions, your structural anomalies, and your curiosity! 💡 Pro-Tip: Read up on the difference between AlphaFold's pLDDT and structural experimental data from the PDB archive tonight so you can ask highly targeted questions in the chat! 🔗 Don't miss this opportunity. Secure your virtual seat here: forms.gle/3JNnHHS6WCyLXF5F8 #Bioinformatics #MeetTheSpeaker #EMBLEBI #PDBe #AlphaFoldDB #StructuralBiology #AIBiology #DataScience #PostdocLife #GraduateResearch #RSGs #ComputationalBiologist @RSG_nigeria @rsg_pak @ISCB_RSG_India @iscb @RSGBangladesh @RSG_KOREA @emblebi

🚀 REGISTRATION IS OFFICIALLY OPEN FOR EPISODE 1! We are kicking off our flagship ISCB-SC & EMBL-EBI EduSearch series with PDBe-KB, a global webinar series with the ultimate paradigm-shifter in computational proteomics: The AlphaFold Database. Before DeepMind’s AI breakthrough, determining a single protein’s 3D structure could consume an entire wet-lab PhD pipeline. Today, AlphaFold provides access to over 200 million structural predictions. But are you utilizing its full analytical potential for your research projects? If you are a student, researcher, or biotechnology enthusiast looking to leverage AI-powered structural models for mutation analysis, drug discovery, or wet-lab validation, this masterclass is built for you. 🎯 WHAT YOU WILL MASTER IN THIS SESSION: 1.Navigating the AlphaFold DB interface like an expert. 2.Interpreting prediction confidence metrics critically (pLDDT scores & PAE alignment matrices). 3.Seamlessly extracting structural metadata to power your research manuscripts. 📅 Save the Date: 26th June,2026 ⏰ Global Time Zones (Synchronized): • 🇮🇳 IST (India): PM🇵🇰 PKT (Pakistan): PM • 🇧🇩 BST (Bangladesh): PM • 🇹🇷 TRT (Turkey): PM • 🇳🇬 WAT (Nigeria): AM • 🇰🇷 KST (South Korea): PM 🎟️ Seats are limited across our 6 participating chapters. Secure your international certificate eligibility early! 🔗 REGISTER NOW VIA THE LINK BELOW: forms.gle/3JNnHHS6WCyLXF5F8 #Bioinformatics #AlphaFold #DeepMind #ProteinFolding #StructuralBioinformatics #Proteomics #DrugDiscovery #Genomics #WebinarAlert #RSGs #Biotechnology #AIInHealthcare @iscb @RSG_nigeria @rsg_pak @ISCB_RSG_India @RSGBangladesh @RSG_KOREA @emblebi

🌍 BORDERS FADE WHEN SCIENCE COLLABORATES. ISCB-Student Council is absolutely thrilled to officially announce a historic, multi-regional webinar series organized in direct partnership with EMBL-PDBe! Computational biology doesn't live in a silo, and neither should our research. This unprecedented 4-month training journey brings together the brightest student research networks across continents to make cutting-edge structural bioinformatics tools completely accessible to you. A MASSIVE SHOUTOUT TO OUR REGIONAL COLLABORATORS: 🇮🇳 RSG India 🇵🇰 RSG Pakistan 🇰🇷 RSG South Korea 🇹🇷 RSG Turkey 🇳🇬 RSG Nigeria 🇧🇩 RSG Bangladesh 👉 The first month takes you to the "The AlphaFold Database (Predictive AI)" Turn your post notifications ON, team. The master registration link and Episode 1 flyer drop tomorrow! #Bioinformatics #StructuralBiology #GlobalScience #ISCB #RSGs #EMBLEBI #PDBe #ProteinDataBank #InternationalCollaboration #ComputationalBiology #BiotechStudents #DataScience @iscb @rsg_pak @RSG_nigeria @ISCB_RSG_India

🚨"THE AI REVOLUTION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY IS COMING STRAIGHT TO YOUR WORKBENCH. Before 2020, solving a single protein’s 🎲3D structure could take an entire, grueling wet-lab PhD pipeline. Today, it takes seconds. 🖥️ The predictive AI tool that completely shifted the paradigm of computational biology and opened the doors to accelerating drug discovery is about to take center stage on our feed. ISCB-SC RSGs are cooking up something massive with global data curators at EMBL-PDBe. We are launching a historic multi-month journey, and we want to see who can guess our very first computational focus. 💡 Here are your clues: 1. It was trained on the structural data of the Protein Data Bank (PDB). 2. It relies on an innovative deep-learning attention architecture. 3. It has predicted structures for nearly every sequenced protein known to science. Drop your exact guesses in the comments below! 👇 Tag a fellow researcher who uses structural biology models. Stay tuned, the official global curtain-raiser drops in 24 hours! 🚀 #Bioinformatics #StructuralBiology #ComputationalBiology #BiotechStudents" @rsg_pak @ISCB_RSG_India @iscb @RSGBangladesh @RSG_nigeria

🎉Excited to release the first-ever RSG-India Newsletter 2025! A glimpse into our events, outreach activities, achievements, collaborations & community contributions from the past year 🚀 Huge thanks to all volunteers, speakers & participants Read here: rsg-india.iscbsc.org/rsg-ind…

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To all the computational science enthusiasts, here comes a great opportunity to interact with other researchers of the scientific community by attending ISCB rorganised events. ✈️ISCB Student Council (SC) offers fellowships to Students and Early Career Researchers in the Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and related fields to attend scientific meetings organized by our organization. We hope this opportunity would benefit your career goals. ⌛️Deadline for application: Monday, 22nd May2026, Anywhere in the world time! We aim to announce the results at the earliest possible. Link to apply forms.gle/ihtdamCmCVBmHUWm7 #bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #ISCB #iscbsc

Join the ISCB Student Council & Regional Student Groups (RSGs) as we organize our stellar symposia around the globe in 2026! 📍 Where will our symposia be? •🔖 22nd Student Council Symposium (SCS2026) – Washington, USA 🇺🇲 Preceding ISMB | 12 July 2026 🔖• 9th European Student Council Symposium (ESCS2026) – Geneva, Switzerland🇨🇭 During ECCB | September 2026 🔖• 7th Latin American Student Council Symposium (LASCS2026) – Lima, Peru During ISCB-LATAM | November 2026 🔖• 5th Asian Student Council Symposium (ASCS2026) – Location TBD🌏 📋We’re looking for enthusiastic, motivated students to join our organizing committees and help make these events exceptional. ⏰ Applications are OPEN! (Applications received afterwards may be considered on a rolling basis if needed.) ✏️: Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Let’s create unforgettable symposia together! #ISCBSC #SymposiumOrganizers #StudentOpportunities

🎙️ New BioinfoBridges Episode! How can you make the most of a bioinformatics conference? We spoke with Dr. Michelle Brazas (Scientific Director, Bioinformatics.ca) about leadership, community-building, and the vision behind the Canadian Bioinformatics Hub Conference (CBHC) 🇨🇦 in Toronto (May 27-29). In this episode: ✨ Key skills bioinformatics students should prioritize ✨ How to prepare before attending a conference ✨ The most common networking mistake 🎧 Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/2tp… 🔗 Learn more about CBHC: bioinformatics.ca/hub/cbhc/ 🔗 Register: iscb.org/cbhc2026/home #NewEpisode #BioinfoBridges #iscbsc #Bioinformatics #STEM #SciencePodcast #CBHC2026

🎉Let's celebrate the Bioinformatics Day🖥️ on the occasion of 101th Birthday of Pioneer in bioinformatics, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff 🧑‍🏫with ISCB-SC. On this day, let's motivate ourselves to make bioinformatics more approachable to everyone and hence making a way for betterment of the society. #iscbsc #bioinformatics #computationalbiology

New episode out! Crossing Borders in Bioinformatics and Empowering Student Talent We chat with Dr. David Requena, a Peruvian scientist in cancer immunotherapy and a champion for mentoring young Latin American researchers 🌍🧬 #BioinfoBridges episode link: open.spotify.com/episode/4if… 🔗 Big Mind Lab: github.com/BigMindLab 🔗David’s GitHub: github.com/davidrequena #NewEpisode #BioinfoBridges #iscbsc #Bioinformatics #STEM #SciencePodcast

✨With the learnings of 2025, let's step into the year 2026 with more enthusiasm and vision to strengthen the young minds in science! 🌟💫Wish you a very happy new year! 🎉🎉