The 3rd Lausanne Comp Bio meeting will take place on Wed. 18 January at 9:30 at Auditorium at the Biophore (UNIL-Sorge campus).

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

Schedule:

9:30 – 9:45: Registration

9:45 – 9:50: Opening remarks 

9:50 – 10:10:  Sina Rüeger (CHUV): Improved ‘summary statistics imputation’ to facilitate causal inference in human genetics studies

10:10 – 10:30: Prof. Lude Franke (University of Groningen, The Netherlands): Identification of context-dependent expression quantitative trait loci in whole blood

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break with snacks

11:00 – 11:20: Jérôme Dauvillier (SIB): Genome-wide exploration of the epistatic landscape of Alzheimer’s disease

11:20 -11:40: Prof. Marcel Salathé (EPFL): Digital Epidemiology

11:40 – 11:45: Closing remarks 

11:45 – 12:15: Coffee break with snacks

12:15 – 13:15 (DEE Series): Prof. Mikhail Gelfand (Russian Academy of Sciences): Evolution of regulatory interactions in bacteria

13:15 – 14:15: Lunch

Details and registration: http://compbio.eventbrite.com