Student Conference Awards ISCB Sub-Committee Student Conference Awards Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB37 Birmingham 2016: AGM Wed 24 Aug

StCA: Terms of Reference and Membership Information Terms of Reference Members Student Conference Award iscb-stud-conf-awrd@ googlegroups.com Student conference awards are available for registered postgraduate students to attend the annual conference and present a paper. The Sub-committee shall receive submissions, judge them, and administer the awards. The rules and procedures are announced in a timely issue of the Newsletter and on the ISCB annual conference webpage. The Sub-committee takes actions for making the annual conferences a stimulating place with good networking opportunities for all young researchers (Informal Young Researcher Get Together, Student’s Day). Chair: 1. Nadine Binder (G) Secretary: 2. Katherine Lee (AU) Members: 3. Carl-Fredrik Burman (SE) 4. Richard Cook (CA) 5. Thomas Jaki (UK) 6. Ulrich Mansmann (G) 7. Chris Metcalfe (UK) 8. Hein Putter (NL) 9. Dimitris Rizopoulos (NL) 10. Jeremy Taylor (USA)

StCA: Report Since August 2015, Nadine Binder SC-Chair, Katherine Lee SC-secretary. Student Conference Awards next slide. SC actions towards all young researchers: - Young Researcher Get Together: Sunday, 21 August – thanks to the LOC for organisation To get to know other young researchers beforehand the conference. - Student’s Day Thursday, 25 August – thanks to the SC To stimulate discussion on how to shape a research career, e.g. on how to come up with competitive research projects. 3 invited talks by biostatisticians, 14 oral student contributions, discussions

StCA: Report We received 18 applications: 2 applicants came from Australia, Belgium, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom; 1 applicant came from Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Nigeria, Sweden, and The Netherlands. Thanks to all members of the SC for judging the applications and for giving good care and deliberation in the decision process. Thanks also to the President. The SC selected three students after a double-blind review of the submitted abstracts and summary papers from each applicant: Name Country University Topic Session Agnieszka Król France Université de Bordeaux The use of tumor dynamics and non-target lesions to predict survival with multivariate joint frailty models C31 Christos Thomadakis Greece National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Longitudinal and time-to-drop-out joint models can lead to seriously biased estimates when the drop-out mechanism is at random C34 Nicole Erler The Netherlands Erasmus University Medical Center Bayesian imputation of time-varying covariates in linear mixed models C17