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The SIB community actively contributes to shaping the national scientific landscape. One nice recent example is the funding success of several projects involving SIB Members to develop Open Research Data practice across Switzerland.
Another is the prominent role of SIB Group Leaders in the new Scientific Advisory Panel to advise the government on mitigating COVID-19, including Tanja Stadler (President), Jacques Fellay (Vice-President), as well as Richard Neher. The panel recently released a report on how to handle COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses in the future.
Find below more updates on the diverse range of activities and awards of our colleagues, such as recent collaborations to foster discoveries in oncology and a Swiss Reproducibility award. |
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RESEARCH
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SIB catalyzes Open Research Data (ORD) practices in Switzerland
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Several ORD projects, from multi-omics data integration to a curriculum for data stewards, that are led by or involving SIB Members have been awarded funding by swissuniversties. Find out more about these efforts which are bringing together leading Swiss institutions and are aligned with the principles of the SwissBioData ecosystem proposal, co-led by SIB.
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Single-cell data science enables recent breakthroughs in cancer research
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Recent advances in the field of immunotherapy, led by Swiss clinical researchers, have been empowered by single-cell expression data analysis expertise of SIB scientists from the Translational Data Science (TDS) facility in Raphael Gottardo’s group. The findings have been published in Science, Immunity and Nature. Find out more on how our experts support cancer diagnosis and research.
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Grant calls
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Translational Medical Research to strengthen links between clinical and basic research in the Lake Geneva region (Fondation Lenaards; deadline: 06.03.23)
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SNSF Project funding for researchers to independently conduct research projects with topics and goals of their own choice (SNSF; deadline: 01.04.23)
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Lead Agency projects with US partners (SNSF/NSF; deadlines: 03.04.23, 02.10.23)
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Novartis - FreeNovation: RNA: Mechanism, drug, target; Beyond AlphaFold: Targeting dynamic states; 3D and 4D genome (Novartis; deadline: 15.04.23)
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BRIDGE Discovery grants for experienced researchers who wish to realise a technological innovation with great social or economic impact (Innosuisse and SNSF; deadline for letters of intent: 27.02.23; deadline for proposals: 02.05.23)
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Spark to fund unconventional ideas: testing or development of new scientific approaches, methods, theories, standards, ideas for applications, etc. (SNSF; deadline: 02.05.23)
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Webinar on NIH funding opportunities for researchers in Switzerland (NIH/SNSF; date: 20.02.23; online)
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List of SIB publications - January 2023
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Take a tour of SIB members' latest peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings.
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EVENTS
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Highlight your work at [BC]2 2023: Submit an abstract by 15 March
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The scientific programme for [BC]2 is now online with the full spectrum of bioinformatics disciplines represented. Are you working on a research project? Did you develop a new method or software to analyse biological data? Or have you been part of an interesting project combining private and public sector stakeholders? Researchers and companies are invited to present joint projects during the special session on industry-academia collaborations.
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Abstract submissions extended for the 16th Annual International Biocuration Conference, Padua, Italy, 24 - 26 April 2023
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If you have not been able to do so already, you can now submit a late abstract to present a poster at the 16th Annual International Biocuration Conference by 31 March 2023.
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ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: AI in Health Research, 13 April 2023, Utrecht, Netherlands
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ELIXR and ELIXIR-NL are organizing a forum which aims to bring together researchers from industry and academia who work on services for enabling the AI ecosystem in the healthcare sector, as well as people providing AI innovative services. This event is free of charge and more information on how to register can be found on the ELIXIR website.
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Challenging the academic publishing model: first of the PCI series webinar - 16 March, 16:00
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The Peer Community In (PCI) initiative is a free recommendation process of scientific preprints based on peer-reviews, supported by a number of institutions, including SIB, as well as a journal. Several SIB Members are taking part as members of one or several communities, from Mathematical & Computational Biology to Evolutionary Biology. PCI is launching a series of webinars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research.
Register to the first one |
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RESOURCES FOR LIFE SCIENTISTS
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In silico talk #24 – A database using machine learning to decipher peptides for T cell recognition
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In this short talk, Daniel Tadros from David Gfeller’s group presents the MHC Motif atlas, a database developed with Simon Eggenschwiler and trained with machine learning on large mass spectrometry datasets to visualize and interpret the binding specificities of MHC proteins. If you are interested in cancer immunotherapy and vaccine development and the use of machine learning for this, then this talk is for you! Make sure to register to be notified of the next talk straight to your mailbox.
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COMMUNITY
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SIB members in the spotlight
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| We are proud to share the exciting news of several SIB members this month:
Congratulations to all, and let us know of other mentions for the next newsletter! |
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Learn about the mission of the SIB-wide Environmental Working Group
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The SIB-wide Environmental Working Group, which was launched in December 2022, has further defined its mission in looking into the impact of SIB on environmental and sustainability, which has been endorsed by SIB’s management. Find out more about their strategic areas of work and how you can contribute ideas or participate.
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Scientific aspects of gender diversity? Join a group visit with colleagues at the Natural History Museum in Bern!
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| What is natural? What can slugs, bees or goats tell us about sex and gender? Explore the genetic and evolutionary aspects of these concepts and be ready to be surprised by what you will find out. The ‘Queer – diversity is in our nature’ exhibition won the Swiss Academy of Sciences award and is running until 19 March. Leonore Wigger from SIB’s Diversity Working Group is looking at organizing an informal group visit on 18 or 19 March: stay tuned for more details or contact Leonore. |
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Call for new members for the Swiss Young Academy
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The Swiss Young Academy is a platform of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences which aims to promote young scientists and academics and encourage them to network across disciplinary boundaries. It is currently seeking five more members to add to this assembly of 34 young academics, among which SIB's Gustavo Ruiz Buendia from the TDS Group. Apply by 28 February 2023.
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Open call for new members of ELIXIR’s Gateway on F1000Research
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ELIXIR’s Gateway on F1000Research is an open research hub for ELIXIR-supported projects and activities which provides ELIXIR members an opportunity to publish their work. They are currently expanding their current Advisory Board to be more representative of the diversity of ELIXIR nodes. Want to know more about the role?
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TRAINING
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Next SIB Training Courses
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ELIXIR Single-Cell Omics data analysis trainers workshop - 21 and 22 March 2023, Geneva & online
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This workshop is a continuation to the one co-organized by GOBLET and ELIXIR in 2021. The aim of this workshop is to get SCO data analysis trainers, members of the SCO community and beyond together, for exchanging ideas about best practices, methods and datasets.
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JOBS
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BIOINFORMATICS AFTERWORK
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Help SIB’s Outreach team at their next workshop at “Les Mystères de l’UNIL” - 1 to 4 June 2023
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"Les Mystères de l’UNIL”, the open days of the University of Lausanne, will take place this year on the theme 'Health'. The SIB Outreach team is organizing a workshop entitled 'All different' in which participants will discover a selection of fascinating stories of genetic variations, their impact on health, as well as their history, in the light of evolution. If you are interested in helping deliver this workshop with the fun team get in touch!
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SIB Members featured in Le Temps
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Two recent articles in the newspaper Le Temps have featured interviews with SIB Members (in French):
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Protein Spotlight: On a tightrope
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Too much of anything is never good. Excess alcohol, and our faculties are impaired. Excess heat, and drought spreads. Excess cold, and vineyards die. Too much, too, of what is paradoxically essential to life frequently turns out to be toxic. Consider oxygen, iron, zinc or vitamins to name but four...
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