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March 2022

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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, ...
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DBC WELCOME

The whole DBC extends the warmest of welcomes to new members.
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Chaymae Ziyani El Ziani
Intern, Group Delaneau

I did my bachelor's degree in molecular biology at the University of Besançon, France. I majored in biochemistry and physiology. Thanks to an internship during the bachelor where I worked on rare genetic diseases, I became aware of the power of computer science in understanding biological patterns and I therefore joined the Master of MLS-Bioinformatics at UNIL. Having recently defended my master's thesis in the laboratory of Pr. Olivier Delaneau under the supervision of Diogo Ribeiro, I worked on the regulation of gene expression by enhancers at the single cell level. I am now continuing my research in the same lab as an intern, this time exploring enhancers co-activity
Dr. Aisima Chatzi Souleiman
Postdoc, Group Fasshauer

I received my BSc in Chemical and Biological Engineering in 2015 from Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey. Shortly after my graduation I started my PhD studies in the same department. My PhD research was based on finding allosteric communication networks, detecting information transmitter-receiver relationships between residue pairs in proteins and nanobody modeling with computational methods. After receiving my PhD degree in 2019 I started my postdoc at Barth Lab, EPFL, in February 2020. In my postdoc, I studied reprogramming and modeling signaling properties in de-novo proteins by employing molecular dynamics and normal mode analysis.
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Théo Cavinato
Intern, Group Delaneau

I am 23 years old, and I did my bachelor and my master at the University of Lausanne. I defended my master thesis "In silico breeding of real genomes" at the beginning of February. And I will now work 3 more months in Olivier Delaneau's lab on this subject to write an article and produce a package.
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DBC SEMINARS

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March 31st - DBC Seminar with Dr.Nicola Pirastu, Senior manager of the Biostatistics Unit at Human Technopole - Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Usher Institute. More details to come soon

WORKSHOP

EMBO Workshop

20 – 22 May 2022 in Rimini, Italy

Organized by Professors Giovanni Ciriello and Luca Magnani, the EMBO Workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary community of scientists with the goal of facilitating discussion and collaborations around genetic and non-genetic mechanisms of cancer evolution. The primary objective is to expand the current genetic-centric view with a mechanistic perspective centred around transcriptional and epigenetic alterations.
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NEWS AND INFOS

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My thesis in 180 seconds - March 17th

Register here to attend the UNIL 6th edition

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Innovation Challenge - Campus 2030


The 3rd edition of our Innovation Challenge will take place from March 7th to 11th, 2022 as part of the Sustainability Week at UNIL

Read more to Join in creating a sustainable living space
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LS2 Annual meeting 2022


the LS2 Annual Meeting 2022 on the topic “Life Sciences in the 2020s: quantitation, integration and prediction", will be held on February 17 and 18, 2022.
The LS2 Annual Meeting brings together scientists from all nations and backgrounds to explore the large spectrum united under the umbrella of Life Sciences.

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D. Day 2022 - April 27th

The D.Day is an event aiming at developing Ph.D. student interactions, highligting current work, and illustrating the wide variety of research topics at FBM - Read more
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VIP2 Post Doc Fellows

VIP2 is a postdoctoral fellowship program at the Vienna BioCenter (VBC) offering three – year fellowships that are open to candidates with backgrounds in biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, engineering, computer science, and bioinformatics.
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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.
GCAT|Panel, a comprehensive structural variant haplotype map of the Iberian population from high-coverage whole-genome sequencing - With Victor Moreno, Olivier Delaneau

Citrullination Was Introduced into Animals by Horizontal Gene Transfer from Cyanobacteria - With David Moi, Christophe Dessimoz

Challenges and future directions for studying effects of host genetics on the gut microbiome - With Adriaan van der Graaf

JOB OPENING

Research Group Leaders - Computational Biology - Location : Milan, Italy

Group Leader position in Conservation Genomics - Location : Barcelona, Spain

Computational Biologist - Postdoctoral Scientist (Immuno-Onclology) - Location : Leuven, Belgium

Post doctoral (bio)informatician/statistician (22673) - Veterinary medical imaging and small animal orthopaedics - Location : Ghent, Belgium

Computational Biologist to deeply characterize the transcriptional landscape of the intestinal mucosal barrier (Postdoctoral scholarship) - Location : Stockholm, Sweden

Postdoc Position (f/m/d) - Research group of Prof. Juliette de Meaux in the faculty of Natural Sciences - Location : Cologne, Germany

Special Scientist - Bioinformatics - Biobank Cyprus - Location : University of Cyprus, Nicosia

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

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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