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February 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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Leona Knüsel
Doctoral Student, Group Kutalik

I studied psychology and neuroscience at the Universities of Bern, Fribourg and Trinity College, Dublin. Through my earlier involvement with the human brain, I became increasingly aware of the role of quantitative research approaches, and my interest in them grew with it. I join Zoltán Kutalik’s group to investigate the biological mechanisms that mediate the effect of environmental factors on sporadic Alzheimer's disease.
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DBC SEMINARS

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February 10th - DBC Seminar with Prof. Peter Joshi, Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Usher Institute.

"Measuring and understanding Biological Age"

When : November 11th - at 12h15

Where : Génopode - Auditoire A

If you want to join online - Zoom - Password : HPC_DBC

Abstract: Biological age is a term increasingly used to refer to the idea that we age at different rates. Work has shown that measures of biological age can be developed, which are prognostic of future mortality. However, the field is still in its infancy, with research often showing statistically significant results, but less emphasis on their implications, or their causes.
Peter will discuss penalised regression approaches to estimation of chronological age and (hidden) biological age in high dimensional -omics assays such as proteomics, using the highly (11 -omics assays) annotated ORCADES population cohort, and share results of their prognostic value, as well as considering the wider context and outlook for the field.
PICTURE A SCIENTIST chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we encounter scientific luminaries - including social scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists - who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all.

The DBC is organizing a Screening and round table discussion on February 17th, from 13h00 to 17h00 (more info to be sent)
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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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Postdoc Funding Chats

The APNS invites you to join the Fall / Winter 2021-2022 Posdoc Funding Chats - Read more
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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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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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BIOLOGY 2022 BASEL

The largest conference of organismal biology in Switzerland to stimulate exchange between students, researchers, and professors across scientific institutions, research groups, and disciplines. It is also the annual joint meeting of the Swiss Zoological, Botanical, and Systematics Societies.
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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.
Epistatic models predict mutable sites in SARS-CoV-2 proteins and epitopes - With Giancarlo Croce

The activity of human enhancers is modulated by the splicing of their associated lncRNAs - With Jennifer Yihong Tan, Ana-Claudia Marques

Methods for the Analysis of Topologically Associating Domains (TADs) - With Marie Zufferey, Daniele Tavernari, Giovanni Ciriello

Fossil-Informed Models Reveal a Boreotropical Origin and Divergent Evolutionary Trajectories in the Walnut Family (Juglandaceae) - With Qiuyue Zhang, Nicolas Salamin, Daniele Silvestro

Simultaneous estimation of bi-directional causal effects and heritable confounding from GWAS summary statistics - With Liza Darrous, Ninon Mounier, Zoltán Kutalil

Analysis of eukaryotic lincRNA sequences indicates signatures of hindered translation linked to selection pressure - With Anneke Brümmer, Ana Claudia Marques, Sven Bergmann

JOB OPENING


Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in IBD Systems Biology, I2O DTA, pRED - Location : Basel, Switzerland

Learning & Development Officer - Data Science - Location : Lausanne, Switzerland

Postdoc position in mountain ecology - Location : Basel, Switzerland

Postdoc Position: Machine-learning Approaches to Discover Dynamical Models in Biolog - Location : Leuven, Belgium

Postdoc Position: Single-cell Regulatory Genomics of Tumor Heterogeneity - Location : Leuven, Belgium

Data Scientist in Metabolomics (m/f/d) - Location : Vienna, Austria

Full Professor of the Didactics of Biology - Location : Bayreuth, Germany

Several Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researcher Positions - Location : Jena, Germany

Bioinformatics data scientist (m/f/d) - Location : Langen, Germany

Postdoctoral Position in 'Population Genetics and Evolutionary Biology - Location : Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

PHD position in CENTURI 12 Multi-view machine learning analysis of intestinal immune response initiation in Peyer’s patches - Location : Marseille, France

PHD position in CENTURI 11 Physical, mathematical and computational modelization of two molecular machines - Location : Marseille, France

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

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