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[BC]2  Basel Computational Biology Conference, 8-10 Sept 2025 in Basel

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The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics presents the [BC]2  Basel Computational Biology Conference, taking place on 8-10 September 2025 in Basel, Switzerland. This year’s theme is “Bioinformatics meets AI: shaping the future of data-driven biology”. The call for abstracts is now welcoming submissions until 27 February 2025. Researchers, bioinformaticians, developers, biocurators, clinicians and industry professionals are invited to contribute with their latest findings.

International Course on Dark Genome in Cell Plasticity and Heterogeneity | March 26 – April 2, 2025 @Institut Curie, Paris

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The next edition of the international course on Non-Coding Genome entitled “Dark Genome in cell plasticity and heterogeneity” will be held from March 26th to April 2nd, 2025 at Institut Curie (Amphitheater Hélène Martel-Massignac – BDD).

The course will explore the versatility of non-genic DNA elements and non-coding RNAs across a spectrum of cellular processes, in humans and model organisms, and their implication in physiology and disease, expanding the topics around the fields of genomics, epigenetics and transcriptomics including single-cell technologies and analysis, epigenome and gene expression regulation, genome organisation and cell clonality.

More specific topics will include:

  • Computational analysis of cell heterogeneity
  • Methods for assessing cell heterogeneity and plasticity
  • Epigenome in regulation of gene expression
  • Retroelements in cell plasticity
  • Dark genome in cell identity and clonality
  • Dark genome and spatial organization

How to apply?
-> Register on the website
You will need to provide a motivation statement, CV and reference letter.

Deadline for application:  February 15th, 2025

More information on the Advanced Training Website:
https://training.institut-curie.org/courses/non-coding-genome-2025

Advertisement by members of the scientific community is essential for the visibility and attractiveness of the course among students. So please, tweet & retweet, forward this email, post on LinkedIn, ResearchGate or any other websites which may be relevant.

Link to program (PDF)
Link to poster (PDF)
Link to social media (PDF)

Organized by:

  • Pierre Bost (Institut Curie)
  • Antonin Morillon (Institut Curie)
  • Leila Périé (Institut Curie)
  • Marina Pinskaya (Sorbonne Université & Institut Curie)
  • Iro Triantafyllakou (Institut Curie)
  • Céline Vallot (Institut Curie)

with the Advanced Training Office

Contact:

c.ncgenome2025@curie.fr

Best regards,

Advanced Training Office

Institut Curie

https://enseignement.curie.fr / https://training.institut-curie.org

Centre de Recherche / Research Center

Office: 9 rue Rataud – 75 005 PARIS | Mail: 26 rue d’Ulm 75248 – Paris Cedex 05

LS2 Annual Meeting 2025

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LS2 Annual Meeting 2025 is holding 10 scientific symposia in 3 different sessions (see details of each symposia below):

Symposia on Wedneday 12 February 2025 / 14:15 – 16:00 (CET)

  • “Cellular oxygen sensing in the post-Nobel era” – organized by LS2 section Physiology. Chaired by David Hoogewijs & Anna Keppner (University of Fribourg).
  • “Imaging-based Spatial Omics” – organized by LS2 intersection Microscopy. Chaired by Arne Seitz (EPLF).
  • “Mechanisms of selective autophagy in health and disease” – organized by LS2 section Autophagy. Chaired by Julien Puyal & Patricia Boya (University of Lausanne).

Symposia on Thursday 13 February 2025 / 10:20 – 12:05 (CET)

  • “Seeing the Complexity of Life: Advances in Structural Cell Biology” – organized by LS2 section Biophysics. Chaired by Wanda Kukulski & Benoît Zuber (University of Bern).
  • “Evolutionary Cell Biology-cell function and structure through an evolutionary lens” – organized by Omaya Dudin (EPFL) & Carmen Faso (University of Bern).
  • Half- symposium “Personalized and systems pharmacology” – organized by SSEP. Chaired by Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska (University of Geneva) & Georgia Konstantinidou (University of Bern).
  • Half- symposium “Strategies at the forefront of 3Rs to Replace, Reduce, and Refine animal experiments” – organized by Swiss 3RCC. Chaired by Michael Walch & Andrina Zbinden (University of Fribourg).

Symposia on Thursday 13 February 2025 / 14:05 – 15:50 (CET)

  • “Spatial proteomics: giving up on a bulk” – organized by LS2 section Proteomics. Chaired by Alexander Schmidt (Biozentrum. University of Basel) & Maria Pavlou (EPFL).
  • “The Complexity of GPCR networks” – organized by LS2 section MCB. Chaired by Miriam Stoeber (University of Geneva) & Daniel Legler (University of Konstanz).
  • “Sensing and responding to the environment: An integrative systems biology approach” – organized by LS2 section Systems Biology. Chaired by Thomas Michaels (ETH Zurich).

Thu Feb 6 – Fri Feb 7, 2025 – Lausanne (Gen)Omics Days 2025

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Dear all,

The Lausanne Genomics Days is a 2-day international conference meant to share advances in (Gen)Omics and their impact on biological research, applied to a wide range of topics (it does involve 5 UNIL departments CIG, DBC, DBMV, DEE, and DMF).

It will take place at UNIL / Genopode on Thursday and Friday February 6th and 7th 2025.

The conference offers 5 sessions:

  • Breakthrough technologies in Biology and Medicine (chair: Prof. Sven Bergmann)
  • Single cell genomics in evolution and development (chair: Prof. Sebastian Soyk)
  • Biological interactions across scales (chair: Prof. Philipp Engel)
  • The role of structural variation for adaptation and species divergence (chair: Prof. Tanja Schwander)
  • Epigenomics & 3D genome folding in organoids and organisms (chair: Prof. Maria Cristina Gambetta).

For detailed program and more information, please visit the event webpage

Registration is FREE of charge. Still, it is mandatory for organization purpose, in particular ensuring that there will not be food wasted (coffee breaks, lunch and apero are offered).

HERE is the direct link for registration.

Best regards

Julien Marquis, on behalf of the L0D2025 organization team

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Julien Marquis
Head of Lausanne Genomics Technologies Facility (GTF)
Tel : +41 (0)21 692 39 06
Julien.Marquis.1@unil.ch
UNIL core facilities

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