Design Team
Khawla Seddiki
Communications ChairKhawla Seddiki is a Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics Program at Laval University, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Arnaud Droit in the Computational Biology laboratory. His areas of interest include working on the development of machine learning and deep learning algorithms for real time clinical diagnosis using 1D, 2D, and 3D mass spectrometry data. She started in 2019 as a volunteer in the communication team of the ISCB-Student Council webinar series program.
Fatma Betul Dincaslan
Design ChairFatma Betul Dincaslan is a PhD student at NUS Biomedical Engineering. Her main research interest is single cell assay development. She received BSc and MSc degrees from Bilkent University. Her thesis was on Tissue Specific Transcriptome of Zebrafish in Ache Mutant Embryos. She has been actively volunteering in RSG Turkey team. Then, she joined the ISCB-SC Webinars Team as well, leading the design team.
Sayane Shome
ISCBSC Webinars Co-chairSayane Shome is a Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program at Iowa State University, USA under the guidance of Dr. Robert L. Jernigan. Her area of research interest lies in computational biophysics, genomics, and machine learning. Her association with ISCB-SC started in 2010 as a volunteer when she joined the core team of Regional Student Group-India. Later, she has served as a President for RSG-India for the term 2012-14 and has also been simultaneously involved in volunteering for Student Council-related activities since then including starting up the ISCB-Student Council webinar series program.
Emmanuel Adamolekun
Communications Team MemberEmmanuel Adamolekun is a Research Assistant at Department of Immunology and Bioinformatics at Helix Biogen Research Institute, Ogbomosho, Nigeria under the guidance of Dr. Kolawole E. Oladipo. His area of research interest lies in Immunoinformatics, Genomics, Data science and Immunology of infectious diseases. His association with volunteering for bioinformatics educational related activities started when he volunteered as a member Local organizing committee of the First Nigerian Bioinformatics Conference (FNBC) in 2019, this forward arouse his interest in Bioinformatics. Later in Mid-2020, he started volunteering for ISCB-Student Council-related activities as a member of the communication committee on the ISCB-Student Webinar series program.
Joske Ubels
Scientific Program Chair / Broadcast Team MemberResearch Interest Research Interest Cancer, genetics, machine learning, prediction of treatment effects.
Elizabeth Alfaro Espinoza
Design / Website Content / Collaborations / Scientific Program Team MemberResearch Interest Research Interest Structural Biology, Protein-Peptide Interactions, Biophysics, Proteomics, Peptidomics.
Selcan Aydin
Scientific Program Team MemberResearch Interest Research Interest Quantitative Genetics, Cellular Signaling, Systems Biology, Developmental Biology.
Neeladri Sen
Communications / Collaborations / Scientific Program Team MemberNeeladri Sen is a post-doc in the CATH lab in University College London (UCL) working with Prof. Christine Orengo working on functional site predictions in proteins. He received his PhD from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune working in the field of computational structural biology with the major focus on protein-protein and protein-small molecule interfaces. He is generally interested in computational structural biology – machine learning, protein structure modeling, molecular dynamics, docking. He joined the ISCB-SC Webinars in 2020, and is involved with the Communications, Collaborations and Scientific Program teams.