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DATA SCIENTISTS FOR LIFE - MAKING SENSE OF HEALTH DATA - OPEN KNOWLEDGE
COMING TOGETHER
At SIB, we create opportunities for our scientists to exchange know-how and collaborate within a lively community.
Promoting diversity in bioinformatics SIB’s Annika Lisa Gable (PhD Student in Christian von Mering’s lab at the University of Zurich) and Ute Roehrig, (Senior Scientist in the Group of Vincent Zoete and Olivier Michielin at SIB in Lausanne) obtained a SIB Travel Fellowship to attend a conference of a different kind: the Bioinfo4women conference (28-29 November 2019), where both organizers and speakers were women. It “provided an interesting reminder that things could be different and better if there was an equal representation of men and women in leading scientific positions”.
Reinforcing the links between life scientists and bioinformaticians In 2019, SIB and Life Sciences Switzerland (LS 2) created a joint “Bioinformatics intersection”, whose mission is to promote exchanges and bridge activities between the two communities, as well as accelerating the development of methods and tools supporting the latest experimental developments. One of the first activities proposed in this context was a symposium on the occasion of the LS 2 Annual Meeting, organized by SIB with the LS 2 Microscopy Intersection, and co-chaired by SIB Group Leader Sara Mitri, on “Smart Microscopy: Machine Learning Applied to Life Sciences”.
“The [BC] 2 conference is highly timely, it’s really the future of medicine and digital health.” Roy Kishony Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Keynote speaker at [BC] 2 2019
WATCH THE [BC]2 VIDEO
Turning big data into clinically relevant knowledge at the [BC] 2 Basel Computational Biology Conference As every two years, SIB organized [BC] 2, this time around the theme of big data and their clinical applications, through a series of workshops and plenary sessions. The conference welcomed students, early-career researchers, world experts and private-sector scientists from 30 countries. Three themes of broad significance emerged from the conference’s tracks and sessions:
➀ From single-cell data to precision oncology
➁ From pathogen sequencing
to fighting infectious diseases
➂ Biological big data analysis and methods