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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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Diana Ivette Cruz Dávalos started her PhD in 2018 in the research team of Assistant Professor Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, attached to the Department of Computational Biology (DBC) and the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB). Together with her colleagues from the Population Genomics Group, she is working on understanding evolutionary processes through quantitative analysis of modern and ancient DNA, with the aim of characterizing and dating the migration flows of global human colonization. Using carbon dating techniques and sequencing of valuable samples that were housed at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro before its tragic fire in 2018, the awardee specifically focused on the genetic relationships between indigenous populations in Brazil. About 20 genomes extracted and deciphered from 200-year-old bone and tooth fragments belonging to Brazilian Amerindians were thus analyzed and show a unique social structure.
For these discoveries, the scientist was awarded a Graduate Student Excellence Award by the Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution (SMBE). "It is a great honor to have our work recognized by the SMBE. After the museum fire, our partners said that the results of my project 'will be the last words in the anthropological collection.' Instead, I see it as the beginning of a huge adventure, as the genetic history of these populations never ceases to amaze us. I hope that our research, and the genetic data we have sequenced, will serve the interests of indigenous communities in the near future," confides the winner. Along with seven other young researchers from the UK, US and Japan, she is presenting her thesis work at the "SMBE Everywhere" international launch symposium today. This is the first event in a long series of 10 virtual meetings via the Gathertown platform.
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