the 5th Lausanne Comp Bio meeting will already take place on Thu. 30 November 2017 at 9:30 in the Auditoire B in the Genopode building. Please mark the date in your calendar!

As in our previous meetings, our goal is to bring together various UNIL/EPFL groups with interests in Computational Biology, including (especially!) students and early career researchers.

Provisional schedule:

9:30 – 9:45: Registration

9:45 – 9:50: Opening remarks 

9:50 – 10:10:  Schwalie Petra Catalina (EPFL): Single-cell RNA-seq-based identification and characterization of adult stem cells in adipose tissue and beyond

10:10 – 10:30: Rob Waterhouse (UNIL / DEE): Arthropod evolutionary genomics

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 – 11:20: Matthew Robinson (UNIL / DCB): Modelling genetic effects and predicting disease risk using spare Bayesian random regression models

11:20 – 11:40: Mark Ibberson (SIB): TBA

11:40 – 11:45: Closing remarks 

11:45 – 13:00: Lunch & Coffee

See http://compbio.eventbrite.com for updates on the talks and please register, so that we can set up the catering.