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October 2022

Newsletter
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, ...

NEWS
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Svante Pääbo wins Nobel Prize for Medicine with Neanderthals DNA research


Some of the works co-authored by Professor Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas cited among the key publications - Learn more
More information with Alexandre Reymond - Director of the Integrative Genomics Centre
Watch the interview
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DEPARTURES
Many thanks to you for the good collaboration throughout these years and we all wish every success in your future endeavours.
Sarah Schmid
PhD Student, Group Salamin
Sarah Schmid - BIO_1475
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DBC SEMINARS

October 13th - DBC Seminar with Dr. Santiago Carmona,
Group leader Cancer Systems Immunology - UNIL-CHUV
Read more
Lausanne Oncology CARMONA lab

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
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Bacteria vs antibiotics: Sending out an SOS

How do bacteria communicate with their neighbors when they are attacked?
find the answer by watching the video here
Visit the DBC YouTube channel

INFO
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Microbial metagenomics: a 360º approach
Heidelberg on 17 - 24 April 2023
Learn more and apply
The International PhD program in Quantitative Biology
Learn more
Want support for your project?
Then, The Synergy Grants could be for you!
Deadline date : 08 November 2022

SAVE THE DATE

DBC Christmas activities will take place on December 15th


More information to come soon
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For more Research news and infos on DBC Events, please check out the DBC Website
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CIG News
SIB News
Skills for Scientists

All the events of the APNS here
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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.
Omics-informed CNV calls reduce false-positive rates and improve power for CNV-trait associations - With Chiara Auwerx, Eleonora Porcu, Kaido Lepik, Zoltán Kutalik
Sex- and age-dependent genetics of longevity in a heterogeneous mouse population - With Marie Sadler, Zoltán Kutalik
Epistasis and evolutionary dependencies in human cancers - With Marco Mina, Arvind Iyer, Giovanni Ciriello
Cross-GWAS coherence test at the gene and pathway level - With Daniel Krefl, Sven Bergmann
Gene set enrichment analysis of pathophysiological pathways highlights oxidative stress in psychosis - With Zoltán Kutalik
Rates and correlates of cannabis-associated psychotic symptoms in over 230,000 people who use cannabis - With Tabea Schoeler
Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention - With Zoltán Kutalik
Deconvoluting complex correlates of COVID-19 severity with a multi-omic pandemic tracking strategy - With Simone Rubinacci, Olivier Delaneau
Explore more...

JOB OPENING
Post-Doctoral Research Visit F/M Postdoc positions in Mathematical Biology at Institut Pasteur and CentraleSupélec - Location : Versailles, France
Assistant Professor - Cell Biology of Development - Location : Toronto, Canada
Call for PhD and MD-PhD fellowship applications - Location : Basel, Switzerland
CIVIS3i Call for sixteen 2-Year Postdoc positions - Location : Marseille, France
PhD position: Virus bioinformatics - Location : Zurich, Switzerland
PhD position in quantitative biology: central metabolism in mediating antibiotic tolerance - Location : Basel, Switzerland

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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