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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.
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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, ...
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As we approach the festive season, we would like to thank each and every one of you for your considerable efforts this year - happy holidays to you, and best wishes for health, happiness and peace. We wish you and your family a memorable and wonderful festive season.
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Congratulations Dr. Liza Darrous on the successful completion of her PhD!!
Liza's thesis, titled “Robust Causal Inference Methods to Assess Risk Factors for Common Diseases”, has encompassed research into Mendelian Randomization methodology and investigating novel approaches to improve its assumption violations.
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with Prof. Anna Köttgen and Dr. Oleg Borislov
Prof. Köttgen is the Director of the Institute of Genetic Epidemiology at the Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Germany)
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Dr. Borislov is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Genetic Epidemiology at the Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Germany
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"Integration of population multi-Omics data for a better understanding of kidney function"
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with Dr. Camille Berthelot
Head of Structure - Comparative Functional Genomics - Institut Pasteur, France
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"Seeing double: resolving the early evolution of tetraploid teleost fishes "
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14th Lausanne Comp Bio Meeting
When: December 12th, 2023 from 10 am to 2 pm
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Where: This 14th event will take place at UNIL - Room 414 of the Amphimax building.
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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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"Exploring the Wonders of Life"
The next LS2 Annual Meeting, in collaboration with the DBC, will be held on February 14-15, together with the Young Scientists' Satellite (YSS) on February 13, 2024, at the University of Lausanne.
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Les protéines, ce n’est pas que du muscle
Chocolat aux protéines, poudre de protéines aromatisée à la vanille, yoghourt protéiné, protéines véganes… Les étalages regorgent de produits alimentaires enrichis en protéines. Mais de quoi parle-t-on vraiment? C'est le sujet de ce nouvel épisode de PopScience, réalisé avec l'Institut suisse de bioinformatique.
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MAPACHE : A flexible pipeline to map ancient DNA
Can we learn more about extinct species from the DNA found in their remains?
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Studying clownfish on the field
In this video, Alberto Garcia Jimenez and Lucy Fitzgerald tell us the perks of doing field work in evolutionary biology. More spefically, within the group of Prof Salamin, they study the relationship between clownfish spieces and their anemones.
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All the events of the APNS here
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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.
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OMA orthology in 2024: improved prokaryote coverage, ancestral and extant GO enrichment, a revamped synteny viewer and more in the OMA Ecosystem - With Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Charles Bernard, Clement-Marie Train, Silvia Prieto Baños, Irene Julca, David Moi , Yannis Nevers, Sina Majidian , Christophe Dessimoz , Natasha M Glover
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Are you an alum or former employee of the department? Email us our news and updates to include in an upcoming newsletter!
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Our new Twitter Feed
We have just released our new Twitter page.
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Make sure to follow the DBC.
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