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
“You can't understand life without understanding the chemistry of it”

Professor Dame Janet Thornton, former Director of European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), was invited as opening keynote for the SIB days 2024, the Swiss bioinformatics summit. We seized th...

💬 “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

“Medical and biological sciences are essentially data sciences now”

Obi Griffith, Professor of Medicine and Assistant Director at the McDonnell Genome Institute in the Washington University School of Medicine, was invited as closing keynote for the SIB days 2024,...

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
Keynote speakers

The SIB days are the internal conference of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, organized every two years, welcoming also alumni.

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
Discover the SIB Remarkable Outputs 2023

Staying abreast of the latest advances and bright ideas emerging in a field as diverse as bioinformatics is challenging. The SIB Remarkable Outputs provide the global community with a shortlist of out...

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_enhttps://sibdays.sib.swiss/session-descriptions#proteins

Session descriptions

The SIB days are the internal conference of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, organized every two years, welcoming also alumni.

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
Session descriptions

The SIB days are the internal conference of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, organized every two years, welcoming also alumni.

@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