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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

PIs of tomorrow: Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) – Deadline Oct. 6, 2024

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Dear postdoctoral fellows,
We are pleased to announce the call for applications to the

“PIs of tomorrow: The Future of Swiss Research”

session at the next LS2 Annual Meeting 2025 which will be held in Fribourg, 12-13 February 2025. This session offers postdocs interested in an academic career an opportunity to present a plenary talk similar in format to a professorship interview seminar.

Selected participants will have the chance to deliver a 12-minute presentation which should appeal to a broad audience. This talk should also highlight the current achievements of the researcher alongside their proposed future research ideas and aspirations. The talk will be followed by a 14-minute discussion on various aspects of the proposed activity, alongside career-oriented aspects of the presenter. A knowledgeable jury panel of professors will evaluate the presentations.

Two prizes will be awarded, by the Jury and by the Public. As well, all finalists presenting in the session will receive feedback from the jury in a one-on-one private session afterwards focussed on career development and advice. In addition, finalists will have their costs covered to attend the LS2 Annual Meeting 2025, taking advantage of the opportunity to expand or refresh your network in Switzerland via interaction with scientists in and outside your field.

Eligibility criteria:

  1. Early career post-PhD researcher with a net academic age of max. 5 years (following SNSF age regulations to take into account career breaks, maternity/paternity leaves, etc: https://www.snf.ch/media/en/Of9kzylTRoaTlliN/SNSF_net-academic-age.pdf).
  2. Ties to Switzerland (i.e. Swiss citizenship, Swiss residency, past or on-going affiliation with a Swiss institution of at least two years).
  3. Currently not in a permanent or tenure track position. For all requirements, the relevant date is that of the deadline (06.10.2024 at 23:59 CET).

Applications must be received by October 6th, 2024 (23:59 CET).
For questions on the session, contact postdocsession@gmail.com. We look forward to your application and hope to welcome you in February 2025 at the LS2 meeting!

More information (i.e. documents, applications)

https://www.snf.ch/media/en/Of9kzylTRoaTlliN/SNSF_net-academic-age.pdf

https://snf.ch/en/gKcnwW6aEft4bMPF/page/your-curriculum-vitae-all-about-the-cv-format

Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) – Deadline for abstract submission: Nov. 8, 2023

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  • Deadline for abstract submission (posters and talks): 8 November 2023
  • General registration: 10 January 2024

Register here: https://annual-meeting.ls2.ch/2024/registration

The program of this edition gathers an amazing panel of keynote speakers: Pr. Nicole King from the University of California, Berkeley (US), Dr. Samer Hattar from the National Institute of Mental Health (US), and Dr. Pavel Tomancakfrom the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (DE) and Dr. Melina Schuh from the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (DE), who will give a keynote lecture at the Young Scientists’ Satellite.

But that’s not all, the 2024 edition of the LS2 Annual Meeting has many interesting things to offer:

Look at details of the program here and general information about abstracts, 3R Accreditation, Venue and more here.