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May 2024

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DBC News is a monthly publication that seeks to inform first and foremost faculty members, researchers and students. It also reaches out to a wider community - Department of Computational Biology partners, visiting faculty and friends.

Alongside the Department's website it is a complementary means of keeping abreast of the Department's rich and diversified scientific activities - visiting faculty, exceptional conferences, publications, awards, appointments, calls for papers and research, ...

WELCOME

The whole DBC extends the warmest of welcomes to new members.
Arianna Tonazzolli
PhD, Group Fasshauer

Arianna is joining the Fasshauer group to pursue her PhD in computational biology. Learn more

DEPARTURE

Many thanks to you for the good collaboration throughout these years and we all wish every success in your future endeavours.


Sina Majidian
Postdoc, Group Dessimoz

DBC NEWS

May 30th - DBC Seminar with Prof. Shamil Sunyaev


Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

June 6th - DBC Seminar with

Prof. Michael Talkowski


Director, Center for Genomic Medicine and Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

INFOS

16th Lausanne Comp Bio Meeting


When: June 11th, 2024 from 10 am to 2 pm

Where: Génopode - Auditoire C

The goal of this meeting series is to bring together researchers from UNIL, CHUV, EPFL and industry, who are active in the field of Computational and Quantitative Biology. The meetings are sponsored by the Department of Computational Biology at UNIL.

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3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology - July 26-30


The 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology is the joint meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, the Society of Systematic Biologists and the Society for the Study of Evolution. The meeting is one of the premiere international opportunities for sharing research on evolutionary biology. Learn more

ISMB Conference - July 12-16


The International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) is an annual event organized by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). This flagship meeting of the ISCB is renowned as the world's largest conference focused on bioinformatics and computational biology. ISMB 2024 showcases the latest international developments in the field and driving forward the future of this dynamic area of research and the involvement of the ISCB's Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) enhances the exceptional scientific program.
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Ancient DNA Beyond Allele Frequencies - July 29-31th


The SMBE Satellite Meeting on Ancient DNA Beyond Allele Frequencies will capitalise on this burgeoning field, bringing together researchers utilising these methods across human and non-human species. Learn more

Personalized Health Technologies 2024
- August 26-28th


This event will be held on August 26 - 28, 2024 at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. Its main focus is on personalized health tools and technologies enabling translational research and biomedical development.
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Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics - September 17-20th


Combining genome-wide data from ancient and modern populations opens new windows into the past and, importantly, their integration with archaeological evidence and historical records elucidates aspects of human history and cultural evolution of past societies. Learn more

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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

What follows is a small sampling of recently published research across the department — for a more complete list of publications, visit PubMed. If there is a paper you would like to see highlighted in the next issue of the newsletter, please email us.

Functional hypoxia reduces mitochondrial calcium uptake - With Daniele Tavernari

Synergy and anti-cooperativity in allostery: Molecular dynamics study of WT and oncogenic KRAS-RGL1 - With Aysima Hacisuleyman

Recurrent gene flow events occurred during the diversification of clownfishes of the skunk complex - With Anna Marcionetti, Sara Heim, Nicolas Salamin

Transcriptomic data reveals the dynamics of terpenoids biosynthetic pathway of fenugreek - With Sina Majidian

Leveraging large-scale biobank EHRs to enhance pharmacogenetics of cardiometabolic disease medications - With Marie C Sadler , Diogo M Ribeiro , Zoltán Kutalik

E2F transcription factor-1 modulates expression of glutamine metabolic genes in mouse embryonic fibroblasts and uterine sarcoma cells - With Daniele Tavernari, Giovanni Ciriello

Frequent jumps from human hosts - With David Moi, Christophe Dessimoz

The neurobiology of life course socioeconomic conditions and associated cognitive performance in middle to late adulthood - With Olga Trofimova, Bogdan Draganski

Assessing the impact of post-mortem damage and contamination on imputation performance in ancient DNA - With Antonio Garrido Marques, Simone Rubinacci, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Olivier Delaneau , Bárbara Sousa da Mota

A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Study of Gene-Sleep Duration Interactions for Blood Pressure in 811,405 Individuals from Diverse Populations - With Adriaan van der Graaf

AI and the democratization of knowledge - With Christophe Dessimoz , Paul D Thomas

DNA methylation may partly explain psychotropic drug-induced metabolic side effects: results from a prospective 1-month observational study - With Eleonora Porcu, Zoltan Kutalik

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JOB OPENING

Researcher (PostDoc Cheminformatics) (m/f/d) - Location : Halle, Germany

Senior Computational Biologist or Bioinformatician - Location : Allschwil, Switzerland

Postdoctoral Researcher: Systems Biology of Malaria Gametocytes - Location : Nijmegen, Netherlands

Research associate bioinformatics (metabolomics, m/f/d) - Location : Halle, Germany

College of Computing: Professor in Bioinformatics - Location : Benguerir, Morocco

Postdoc Computational Modeling for Drug Safety Prediction - Location : Leiden, Netherlands

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