Dutch PhD students elected Chair and Secretary of ISCB Student Council

15 Oct 2009

The elections for new members of the Student Council of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) turned out in favour of the Dutch candidates, both of them PhD students. Jeroen de Ridder (TU Delft) has been elected Chair and Jayne Hehir-Kwa (UMC St Radboud Nijmegen) will be taking up the position of Secretary. Jeroen already has some issues he would like to address through the Student Council. He explains: "Personally, I would like to expand the Regional Student Groups to a larger number of countries with special focus on developing nations. Through the Student Council, we can bring those students into contact with the bioinformatics community in the US and Europe."
Both Jayne and Jeroen are currently board members of the Regional Student Group in the Netherlands, co-founded by NBIC. Their one-year term with the ISCB Student Council will start March 2010.

More information on the Student Council: www.iscb.org/student-council

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