Bioinformatics in the pub

Dear all,

The ISCB-RSG is an association supporting students and young researcher in computational biology and bioinformatics. We aim at connecting bioinformaticians from different places around Switzerland.

Please join us a for the first bioinformatics in the pub, a friendly gathering around food and drinks of PhD students, Post-Docs and young bioinformaticians, Thursday 29.06.17 at 7pm at Brasserie du Chateau.

Registration is non-mandatory but appreciated for booking tables: https://doodle.com/poll/tisfs9h8id6e5g9y

To be informed about future similar events please join our mailing list by replying to this message or follow us on twitter @rsg_switzerland
Best regards,

On Behalf of the International Society for Computational Biology Regional Student Group of Switzerland.
ISCB-RSG-Swiss

Elsa Guillot

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Company visit at Syngenta

Dear fellow post-docs and PhD students,

 

The BioScience Network Lausanne and the SV postdoc association are organizing a company visit at Syngenta on the 7^th of October (Friday) 2016 in Basel. The aim of this visit is to promote interactions among researchers in industry and PhD students and postdocs from EPFL and UNIL.

 

In attachment you will find the final schedule for the visit!! 

!! Registration deadline is in 1 week. Do not miss this great opportunity !!

 

Since the Syngenta company is not well connected with public transportations, a bus will be provide and the cost is 60 CHF per person. The registration is now open and the deadline is the 27th of September 2016, 12:00.   Places are limited to 20 participants,  so register early! The organising committee will select participants based on their CV and a small paragraph about their motivation. The results of the selection will be communicated by September 30^th, 2016. 

 

To register, please send an email to bsnl.lausanne@gmail.com with your CV and your motivation paragraph

 

For the payment:

• Transfer 60 CHF to the official BSNL bank account:
  IBAN: CH50 0900 0000 8946 8243 2
  BIC: POFICHBEXXX
  PostFinance AG BERN
  BSNL- BioScience Network Lausanne
  P.a. EPFL AA DAF
  Station 1
  CH-1015 Lausanne
  Make sure to include the following line as the reason for payment: “Syngenta visit”
• Send an email to bsnl.lausanne@gmail.com with the proof of payment.
  Include “YourName Syngenta visit” in the subject line

! Registration opens now and closes on the 27th of September 2016 at noon!

 

In case you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.

 

Cheers,

 

Martina, on behalf of the BioScience Network Lausanne (BSNL) and the SV postdoc association

MedLem Meeting “INFLAMMATION in the era of BIG DATA” the 17th of November 2016 in Geneva-Centre Louis Jeantet.

The Faculty of Biology and Medicine  of LAUSANNE 

and the Faculty of Medicine of Geneva

 are very pleased to present the 1^stMedLem Meeting 

that will held on Thursday, the 17th of November 2016

 in Geneva-Centre Louis Jeantet. 

The 2016 theme is

« INFLAMMATION in the era of BIG DATA ». 

Invited Speakers :

• Prof. Francine Behar-Cohen (Hôpital opthtalmique Jules-Gonin)
• Dr. Lydie Lane (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
• Dr. Luc Stoppini (Hepia//HES-SO and Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology)

Deadline Abstract: 30.09.2016

(More info at www.unil.ch/medlem/)

The MedLem meeting will be a fantastic opportunity to discover the breadth of research around Lake Geneva            

 We encourage you to participate!

Scientific & organizing committee:

• Olivier Gaide (Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Lausanne University Hospital) contact
• Maxime Pellegrin (Division of Angiology, Lausanne University Hospital) contact
• Aurélien Thomas (Unit of Toxicology, CURML, Lausanne University Hospital, Geneva University Hospital) contact
• Natacha Turck (Department of Human Protein Sciences, University Medical Center-Geneva) contact

 

Science Hackathon at UniverCité

Friday 25th, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th of November, Hackuarium with Inartis Foundation and THE Port association organise a Science Hackathon at UniverCité!

So if you have a science project, a problem or some skills you want to share with a team of 25-30 other bright minds, sign-up HERE before September 30th!

It will be 3 days of intense brainstorming, prototyping and problem solving.

Everyone welcome! And please, spread the word!

 

Novartis – Industry Talk for ISCB-RSG Zürich

There will be a talk this Thursday the 21^st of April for those in the Computational Biology, Systems Biology, and Bioinformatics related fields to discuss opportunities of doing related work in industry.

Time: 17:30

Location: University of Zurich, Irchel Campus room Y03-G91

Additional details: please see attached flyer.

The invited speaker is Dr. Audrey Kauffmann PhD, a bioinformatics group leader at Novartis.

Audrey along with one of her colleagues, Gráinne Kerr, will be present following the talk for an apéro to have discussionwith attendees regarding their career path.

 

Medical Data Access event report

BSNL and the RSG-Switzerland co-organized in the biohacker space Hackuarium an open discussion about the risks, challenges and opportunities of medical data sharing.

Approximately 50 people attended the round table to discuss about different aspects related to Medical data access. And we were honoured to host as invited speakers:
– Jacques Beckman (Head of Clinical Bioinformatics, SIB),
– Christine Currat (Executive director of the Swiss biobanking platform),
– Manolis Dermitzakis (Professor of Genetics at the Department of Genetic Medicine, UNIGE) and
– Jeanne-Pascale Simon (Lawyer at the Unit of Legal Affairs, CHUV).

At the beginning, Jacques and Manolis told us about their view of this complex question, and exposed some of the current limitations and the link with their own research. They envisioned the situation that we will face in the future as patients, scientist or citizen.

Then, Jeanne-Pascale and Christine described the current status of the law  and how hospitals and more…

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Medical data access: challenges, opportunities and risks

The Bioscience Network Lausanne (BSNL) and the regional section group of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB RSG Switzerland) are glad to announce the round table about medical data access.

Indeed, new practices and technologies such as digital medical records and high-throughput sequencing open new ways for medical doctors and scientists to investigate human biology and diseases. However, this new model raises many fundamental questions. We would like to discuss them in our round table to make clear what are the opportunities that exist now and how can the medical data be handled in a way that the rights of patients are preserved.

During the round table we will go through the following questions:
– What can personalized medicine offer?
– What ethics problematic are at stake with personal medical data and how can the law protect patients?
– What is the current state of the infrastructure for these data and the existing tools for researchers?
– How to manage these data and ensure confidentiality, but to allow access to researchers?
– How much investment is needed today to support this data tsunami?
– What is the need in medical data literacy for its potential users?
– How many trained people do we need in the area?
– Can citizens take part in this revolution by doing citizen science/biohacking/DIYbio?

We are honored to discuss these topics with four important actors in the field that confirmed their participation:

– Jacques Beckmann (Head of Clinical Bioinformatics, SIB)
– Christine Currat (Executive director of the Swiss biobanking platform)
– Manolis Dermitzakis (Professor of Genetics at the Department of Genetic Medicine, UNIGE)
– Jeanne-Pascale Simon (Lawyer at the Unit of Legal Affairs, CHUV)

Come and join us in the discussion next Thursday, 5th November at 19:00, at UniverCité (Chemin du Closel 5, Renens)

Looking forward to meeting you there,

Leonor Rib & Jonathan Sobel

1000 Beer Genomes Project on Kickstarter

Dear brewers and beer lovers,
If you want to know exactly what your beer contains, if you want to understand the diversity of frosty, foamy styles across the globe and decode the secrets hidden within, then the project BeerDeCoded will excite you. It consists of sequencing the genome of 1000 varieties of beer and comparing their biochemical parameters. The result will be made into a poster as a reward to all of our supporters.
This project brings together a multidisciplinary team of six researchers who need your help to complete the goal. The first financing campaign was launched on Kickstarter and ends on 27 June.
If you are interested, please share the following link with your social network and consider contributing your support.
Check out if your favorite beer is included in the study. The link to share is: http://kck.st/1GCH7cW
You may also join our analysis workshops in our laboratory at the Hackuarium (Lausanne, Switzerland: http://www.hackuarium.ch) starting this summer.
Our results will be free for all to see. We believe in Open Access science and we will therefore release the results online and through a free App.

Cheers!

The team at BeerDeCoded
All inquires should be sent to Gianpaolo Rando (gianpaolo.rando@swissdecode.ch)

PS
Thanks to beer- and genome-lovers like you, in only 4 days we were 70% funded.
Thanks to the generous breweries for sending their beer! Again, the link here: http://kck.st/1GCH7cW

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