The Fellows Council is comprised of nine (9) Fellows who have made substantial contributions to ISCB (e.g. Presidents, Vice Presidents, Members of the Board, Committee Chairs) and whose demographic diversity characteristics reflect those of the ISCB Membership and Computational Biology Community, as far as possible. Fellows Council membership will be reviewed annually by the Fellows Council and Executive Committee to ensure this representation endures. Fellows on the Council can serve a term of up to 3 years with an option to apply for renewal for one further term. All ISCB Fellows with significant ISCB service will be eligible to apply to the Fellows Council. Other ISCB Fellows may be considered where other community citizenship (i.e. external to ISCB) merit their joining the Council.
The Fellows Council selects the members of the Fellows Selection Committee (FSC) annually and shall ensure that the expertise of the FSC covers as broad a set of scientific themes as possible, and is comprised of a diverse nature taking into consideration gender, ethnicity, scientific expertise, geography, etc. The Council may solicit additional members to the FSC where there is not sufficient coverage of themes from volunteers and to ensure broad demographic representation. Volunteers are selected based on experience in review processes, their particular scientific field and demographic considerations.
As well as annually appointing the FSC in a meeting at ISMB (which may be hybrid), the Fellows Council will meet one more time in the Autumn to coordinate the annual ISCB Fellows Statement highlighting major developments in the field of computational biology for that year. They may also schedule additional meetings if they wish to coordinate reviews on selected topics, Fellows workshops or discussions to promote additional Fellow's activities
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Chair: Alfonso Valencia
Thomas Lengauer
Christine Orengo
Janet Kelso
Terry Gaasterland
Teresa Przytycka
Laxmi Parida
Xuegong Zhang
Satoru Miyano