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Invitation to Participate in the Lemanic Life Sciences Hackathon 2025

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https://www.epfl.ch/schools/sv/lemanic-life-sciences-hackathon-2025

We are organizing the 2nd iteration of the Lemanic Life Sciences Hackathon 2025. The goal is bringing together computational scientists and clinicians/biologists to collaborate on data science-related projects. The format is unique: we independently recruit both projects and participants (“hackers”), then match them afterwards on interests. Our first edition last year was a great success with almost 100 participants, many sponsors and three deserving winners. The next iteration will be in April 2025.

At this stage, we are particularly looking for exciting challenges that the participants could tackle – it’s easier for us to find strong computer scientists & quantitative participants. Thus, I’m reaching out to ask if you (or your students) have any interesting challenges that come to your mind? Past projects involved Aberrant speech recognition for Parkinson’s Patients, creating tools for biodiversity identification in the field, decoding EMG, Generative modeling for designing antibiotics-resistant phage…. 

More information on the hackathon is available here: https://www.epfl.ch/schools/sv/lemanic-life-sciences-hackathon-2025/

Alexander Mathis https://mathislab.org

Seminar on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion: October 7, 2024, 12h15, Génopode Auditoire B

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Dear All, 

As you know, the CIG takes all forms of workplace discrimination very seriously. To foster working conditions that respect Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI), PIs have recently attended a seminar led by UNIL’s EDI office. Moreover, a CIG EDI committee has been elected. 

As one of its first initiatives, the EDI committee has requested that an EDI seminar be presented to all CIG members, including PhDs, Postdocs and all PAT members, including those from central services.

The first EDI seminar will take place during a regular CIG seminar slot on Monday, October 7, 2024, at 12h15 in Genopode’s Auditoire B. 

As these topics are relevant to everyone, all CIG members are strongly encouraged to attend.

Discussion during this session and feedback from a questionnaire afterwards will be used to plan future events to ensure that all CIG members can openly discuss and receive training in EDI-related issues. 

Best regards,

Frédéric, for the CIG EDI Committee

Graduate Campus Courses

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Develop your skills and contribute to the “savoir vivant”

Graduate Campus (https://courses.unil.ch/graduatecampus) offers a number of workshops specifically designed for doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers and supervisors from all faculties (UNIL, CHUV and Unisanté). These workshops are free of charge.

You can register for our workshops in the following four modules:

  • Thesis from A to Z: Where to find the tools to get your PhD off to a good start, get support along the way, and to prepare your thesis defense.
  • Strengthen your skills: Develop your transferable skills, increase your confidence, and enhance your practice.
  • Develop your career: What comes next? Come to a Career Café to talk about it. The Graduate Campus organises a range of workshops to help doctoral candidates and postdocs take their next career steps.
  • Supervision: Workshops for professors and senior researchers to acquire tools and share best practices in the supervision of early career researchers.

Bye bye apéro for Jolanda van Leeuwen: Wed Oct 9, 2024 at 4 PM (NEW)

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You are all welcome to an apero Wednesday Oct 9, 2024 at 4 PM (NEW) in the main hall to say bye bye to Jolanda who will leave us for a position as Associate professor in the Department of Systems Biology at UMass Chan Medical School, starting November 1st. Although moving to the States, she will still remain CIG member to lead her group members who stay with us for a while.