title: ISCB-Student Council Narratives: Strategical development of the ISCB-Regional Student Groups in 2016.
abstract: Regional Student Groups are groups established and managed by the ISCB-Student Council in different regions of the world. The article highlights some of the initiatives and management lessons from our 'top-performing' Spotlight Regional Student Groups (RSGs), RSG-Argentina and RSG-UK, for the current year (2016). In addition, it details some of the operational hurdles faced by RSGs and possible solutions.
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program,, Iowa State University, Ames, USA.
authors.forename: Sayane
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7959-470X
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shome
authors.affiliation: Advanced Database Research and Modeling group (ADReM), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Biomedical Informatics Research Network Antwerp (biomina), University Hospital Antwerp/University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: Pieter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Meysman
authors.affiliation: Protein Physiology Laboratory, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA-CONICET-IQUIBICEN, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Quantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany.
authors.forename: R Gonzalo
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Parra
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Alexander Miguel
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Monzon
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Físico Química, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Fundación Instituto Leloir-IIBBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Palopoli
authors.affiliation: Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.
authors.forename: Benjamen
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: White
authors.affiliation: Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Wales, UK.
authors.forename: Farzana
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.affiliation: Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Wales, UK.
authors.forename: Mehedi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hassan
authors.affiliation: Medical Biotechnology Program, Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Medical Sciences, Acibadem University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Zeynep
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Özkeserli
authors.affiliation: Immuno-virology and Vaccine Development Unit, Medical Biotechnology Department, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria; Bioinformatics Research Group, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Efejiro
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ashano
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
authors.forename: V Keith
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Hughitt
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology and biotechnology program. Institute of integrative biosciences, CECOS University of Information Technology and Emerging Sciences, KPK, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Uzair Khan
authors.affiliation: Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Wales, UK.
authors.forename: Denis J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Murphy
keywords: Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; ISCB Student Council; Regional Student Groups; Student organizations; Virtual seminars; Workshops