Sponsorship

About the event

ISMB

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council would like to invite you to connect your company name to the 30th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2022), by sponsoring the 18th Student Council Symposium 2022 (SCS 2022). Although originally to be held in  Madison, Wisconsin, United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has urged us to make this the first completely virtual symposium organised by the ISCBSC. The event will be held on Friday the 9th and Saturday the 10th of July.

The annual international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) is the largest and main multidisciplinary computational biology and bioinformatics conference covering a broad range of research areas. The growing ISMB conference attracts leading bioinformatics researchers, computational biologists, bio-IT professionals, researchers in molecular biology, molecular medicine, biophysics, biostatistics, and systems biology from both academia and industry.

SCS

The Student Council Symposium, organized as pre-meeting of the annual ISMB, enables students and young researchers (PhD students & Junior Postdocs) in the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to connect and build a network within the global computational biology community. Participants have the opportunity to present their work to an international audience and develop important soft skills in an environment that fosters the exchange of ideas and knowledge.

If your company/organization would like to increase its visibility among early-career scientists in Computational Biology and related areas we offer you various sponsorship opportunities at very competitive rates!

Sponsorship opportunities

As a sponsor, there are several opportunities for you and your company to make yourself known and interact with the SCS attendees. 

All sponsorship offers come with:

  • Logo on our website: http://symposium.iscbsc.org/
  • Mention in the SCS Twitter feed and Facebook page
  • Logo in the symposium promotion material
  • Honorary mention during the symposium

Sponsor Tiers*

  • Bronze (unlimited) - 250 USD
  • Silver (max 10) - 800 USD
  • Gold (max 4) - 1400 USD
  • Platinum (max 2) - 2800 USD

* Sponsors tiers have a limited number of slots. Higher sponsor tiers benefit from additional visibility during our event. Gold and Platinum sponsors will also be highlighted in our email updates to attendees. Funds will be allocated as needed, prioritising student fellowships and expenses associated with administering content online. 

Specific sponsorship options: 

  1. Gift for a keynote*: Keynote speakers will be presented with a gift. 
  2. Student Fellowships: Both these fellowships will be evaluated based on a combination of need, extent of participation, and abstract score. Application can solicit what expenses are expected from attendees. 
    1. Registration fellowship for students - 20 USD (per recipient). Provides awardee with free registration for SCS program. 
    2. Remote participation fellowships - 100 USD (per recipient). Provides awardee with funding support to facilitate remote participation in SCS proceedings. This includes auxiliary expenses such as high-speed internet and headsets. 
  3. Intermission highlights - 400 USD: You will be the official sponsor of one of our coffee breaks in the virtual conference. Your company will be highlighted on rotation in our slides during the intermission.
  4. Session pitch talk (5 minutes) - 600 USD: Sponsors can provide brief research highlights from their institution during an SCS session. Limited to 1 per session.
  5. Best poster prizes - monetary or in-kind** : Critics choice and popular choice categories, with multiple prizes offered in each category.  
  6. Best presentation prize - monetary or in-kind**  

* In the past, typical keynote gifts from SCS have ranged between $100-150 USD.
** In-kind sponsor prizes can include subscriptions, service opportunities like sequencing, and gift vouchers. 

For further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us!

    Yasin Kaya (Chair), Claudia Silva-Andrade (Chair),

    scs.sponsor@iscbsc.org