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February 2023

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, ...
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WELCOME !

The whole DBC extends the warmest of welcomes to new members.
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Ilaria Iuliani,
Postdoc, Group Bergmann

I am a physicist deeply fascinated by the study of complex biological systems.

I did my Master's degree in Physics of complex systems (University of Turin), where I had the opportunity to contribute to different projects, from E.coli's growth to gene expression networks in cancer cells. Read more


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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.
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Simone Rubinacci
Postdoc, Group Delaneau
Yuanlong Liu
Postdoc, Group Ciriello
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DBC SEMINARS



February 9th - DBC Seminar with Dr. Ewa Szczurek, Associate Professor, University of Warsow (PL).

"Drawing spatial maps of tumor clones and their microenvironment"

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INFO

AI to save Madagascar

How artificial intelligence and bioinformatics can contribute to conservation policies.

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World Cancer Day - February 4th


How genetic and hormonal sex determinants impinge on cancer risk in concert with variations in human populations is a complex topic that requires a multifaceted approach at the interface of science and society. Read more

Compbio UNIL

February 28th


"Computational Biology" addresses biological questions with computational means & algorithms. From mathematical modeling of biological systems to the processing/analysis and integration of large amounts of experimental or clinical data. More info to come

Cardiac RNA-mediated (re)programming - March 9 & 10

Collaborative symposium of the SNF Sinergia Program "Regenerative strategies for heart disease via targeting the long noncoding transcriptome" and the CVM PhD program FBM-UNIL. Read more
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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.
Association between stressful life events and psychosis relapse: a 2-year prospective study in first-episode psychosis - With Tabea Schoeler

Improved predictions of antigen presentation and TCR recognition with MixMHCpred2.2 and PRIME2.0 reveal potent SARS-CoV-2 CD8+ T-cell epitopes - With David Gfeller, Giancarlo Croce, Julien Racle

Mapache: a flexible pipeline to map ancient DNA - With Samuel Neuenschwander, Diana I Cruz Davalos, Lucas Anchieri, Barbara Sousa da Mota, Davide Bozzi, Simone Rubinacci, Olivier Delaneau, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas

Childhood Maltreatment and Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Quasi-Experimental Studies - With Tabea Schoeler

Quantifying the role of transcript levels in mediating DNA methylation effects on complex traits and diseases - With Marie C Sadler, Chiara Auwerx, Kaido Lepik, Eleonora Porcu, Zoltan Kutalik

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JOB OPENING

Bioinformatician - Location : Lausanne, Switzerland

System specialist - Location : Lausanne, Switzerland

Postdoctoral Fellow - CRISPR analysis of gene co-dependencies in cancer - Location : Saffron Walden, United Kingdom

Postdoctoral Researcher Position(m/f/d) in Integrative Research Data Management - Location : Jena, Germany

Post-Doc position in quantitative biology - Location: Basel, Switzerland

Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical Bioinformatics - Location : Nijmegen, Netherlands

Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Biology/Bioinformatics - Location: Luxembourg

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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