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Dame Janet Thornton, former Director of European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI, talked about SIB’s impact during her interview after her keynote speech at #SIBdays24, the Swiss bioinformatics summit.
Read the full interview 👉 https://www.sib.swiss/news/you-cant-understand-life-without-understanding-the-chemistry-of-it
#Bioinformatics #DataScience #OpenScience #OpenResearchData

💬 “Medical and biological sciences are essentially data sciences now”

Prof. Obi Griffith from the McDonnell Genome Institute was invited to the #SIBdays24.

We asked the co-leader of the Griffith Lab a few questions about #bioinformatics. Read his Interview 👉 https://tinyurl.com/yn2z4rky

Congratulations to our #SIBdays24 poster prize 🏆 winners!
- Marco Molari, @unibasel_en
- Olesia Kondrateva, @agroscope
- Wangjie Liu, @epfl
- Marine Bugnon, @unil / SIB
- Alessandro Cuozzo, @unil / SIB
- Elisabeth Coudert, Swiss-Prot
- Janani Durairaj, @biozentrum

It’s already time for the closing keynote lecture “Open Science Bioinformatics Resources for Precision Oncology” by @obigriffith https://sibdays.sib.swiss/keynote-speakers This session is chaired by @hb9feb and Marija Buljan. #SIBdays24

Next at #SIBdays24, we celebrate the SIB Remarkable Outputs 2023 More info: https://www.sib.swiss/news/discover-the-sib-remarkable-outputs-2023 or in #SIBRemarkableOutputs. The session is chaired by Luciano Cascione and Frédérique Lisacek @glycomicsexpasy

Our 4th parallel session #SIBdays24 is about to start. Sessions are:

- “New Methods and Tools in Bioinformatics: Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Solve Biological Problems” chaired by Mark Ibberson and Sandra Mitrović https://sibdays.sib.swiss/session-descriptions#new-methods ;

- and “Proteins and Proteomes: Proteins and Proteomes, From Data to Knowledge” chaired by Frédérique Lisacek @glycomicsexpasy and Witold Wolski @uzh_en @fgcz_en … https://sibdays.sib.swiss/session-descriptions#proteins

We start this second day at #SIBdays24 with the 3rd parallel session. Sessions are:
- “Medicine and Health: #PersonalisedHealth and Disease, From Molecules to Systems” chaired by @jannahastings and @p4tp3d https://sibdays.sib.swiss/session-descriptions#medicine-and-health;
- and “Ecology, Environment and Agriculture: Unraveling Ecosystem Complexity With Bioinformatics” chaired by Catalina Chaparro Pedraza & Germán Bonilla-Rosso https://sibdays.sib.swiss/session-descriptions#ecology #SIBdays24

@SIB Fun pannel experience with people younger than me who know so much more 😁 #sibdays24

Now, it's time for the #SIBdays24 summer party at a nearby farmhouse. We'll have good food, fun games and a dance party 💃🕺

Another great panel to close this 2nd day at #SIBdays24: “Responsible use of #AI -based tools in #ScientificResearch”, moderated by Alexandra Rys

with:

- Maximilian Brackmann, Spiez Laboratory, Federal Office for Civil Protection
- Janna Hastings, UZH, Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, Zurich.
- Sara Kijewski, AI Ethics and Policy Network and bioethics , ETH Zurich
- @marcrr, Unil, Department of Ecology and Evolution @dee_unil Lausanne

We learn more about each other’s research during our first poster session and coffee break ☕️#SIBdays24

…and “Ad hoc session 2 - Building together: drafting SIB’s daily commitments towards Equality, Diversity and Inclusion” organized by the SIB People & Culture team and the SIB Diversity focus group #SIBdays24

https://sibdays.sib.swiss/ad-hoc-sessions#ad-hoc-session-edi

… and “Variants interpretation in cancer: current limitations and future prospects” moderated by Daniel Stekhoven, NEXUS PHT and Valérie Barbié with special guest Obi Griffith #SIBdays24… https://sibdays.sib.swiss/session-descriptions#variants-interpreation-cancer

Our second parallel session is about to start at #SIBdays24: “#SingleCell Biology: #Biology Through the Lens of Single-Cell and #SpatialOmics Technologies” chaired by Aurélie Gabriel @fondationisrec et @markrobinsonca https://sibdays.sib.swiss/session-descriptions#Single-cell …

…and “Ad hoc session 1 - Demystifying the #legal challenges of #OpenResearch” with speakers Aneta Kralova and Clément Parisato, from Legal & #TechnologyTransfer, SIB #SIBDays24

…and “#StructuralBiology: Innovative Tools To Address #BioMacromolecular Structure and Dynamics” chaired by Andrea M. Cavalli
and Joana Pereira, BioZentrum
@unibasel_en #SIBdays24…

Back from lunch for the first parallel session #SIBdays24, with: “Genes and genomes: Navigating the Rapidly Expanding Space of Genes and Genomes” chaired by Maria Anisimova, ICLS ZHAW
and David Francisco, Dept. of Biology, UniBern
…

Great open discussion with a nice group of ≈20 bioinformaticians on making our research more sustainable. Consensus that we should make comptutations and storage more efficient, increased awareness of the impact of plane travel, and interesting suggestions to encourage (rather than enforce for now) better behaviors. @SIB #SIBdays24 #sustainability #bioinformatics

Starting now at #SIBdays24, our morning 🧑‍💻🧑‍💻🧑‍💻 Meet Your Peers sessions. We have 11 group discussions on topics of importance for SIB members across functions. Full list: https://sibdays.sib.swiss/meet-your-peers

Excellent talk by Janet Thornton showing us how interesting enzymes are, and how much bioinformatics can teach us about their mechanisms and evolution, and how we can use these insights to design new enzymes @SIB #bioinformatics #SIBdays24

There weren't many people at the #SIBdays24 #sustainability workshop yesterday, but the discussions were very interesting. I'm optimistic that this can be the start of movement of taking sustainability into account in one of the largest #bioinformatics institutes @SIB. The effort will continue today with a shorter open discussion on the same topic during the main conference, that hopefully more people will attend.
(figure from the excellent https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac034)

We’re pleased to welcome Janet Thornton, Former director of @emblebi for our opening keynote lecture https://sibdays.sib.swiss/keynote-speakers and fireside chat about 50 years of #BioInformatics, moderated by @dessimoz #SIBdays24

A few words of welcome by SIB’s Director @dessimoz, and by Natasha Glover, UNIL, Chair of the Scientific Committee #SIBdays24

We're getting ready for the second day of #SIBdays24! We have an exciting programme in store for our attendees, here in Biel!

After a nice lunch, we have “Career horizons: navigating diverse paths”, a session chaired by Grégoire Rossier in which 6 speakers present their diverse career paths #SIBdays24

Today, we have several half-day and full-day workshops at #SIBdays24. All the details are available https://sibdays.sib.swiss/programme

400 participants, 11 parallel sessions, 11 workshops and tutorials, 2 keynote lectures and 2 poster sessions, and 1 panel discussion on #ArtificialIntelligence – a packed programme at #SIBdays24! https://sibdays.sib.swiss/programme

Good to be back at the #SIBdays24 in @BielBienne_off! We welcome our members for 3 days of exciting talks (and a bit of fun… 😄 )

For the next 3 days I'll be at the #SIBdays24, the meeting of Swiss bioinformaticians organised by @SIB. Mute this hashtag if you don't want to hear about bioinformatics.
Kicking off with a workshop on "navigating environmental challenges in bioinformatics".

SIB days are coming up next week in Biel/Bienne! We're excited to welcome our members from across #Switzerland again, to share the best in #bioinformatics at our internal conference 👋. Watch the hashtag #SIBdays24 to follow our discussions about the field & community.