The Scientific Committee (SC), composed of 2 session chairs per session, is selected by the Scientific Committee Core Team (SCCT). The session chairs are responsible for selecting the presentations in their session and ensuring consistency in the scientific quality of the presentations.
It is our great pleasure to announce the name of the selected session chairs:
- Bioinformatics for cancer research
- Valentina Boeva (Boeva Lab, Computational Epigenetics of Cancer, ETH, Zurich)
- Santiago Carmona (CARMONA Lab, Ludwig Centre for Cancer Research, UNIL, Epalinges)
- Session coordinator: David Gfeller
- Bioinformatics in infectious diseases
- Emma Hodcroft (Assistant Professor, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil)
- Jacques Fellay (Fellay Lab – Human Genomics of Infection and Immunity, EPFL, Lausanne)
- Session Coordinator: Katja Bärenfaller
- Clinical data science
- Valérie Barbié (Director Clinical Bioninformatics, SIB, Geneva)
- Laura Azzimonti (Senior Researcher and Lecturer at IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, Lugano and Leader of the SIB group Machine Learning for Bioinformatics and Personalised Medicine)
- Session Coordinators: Catherine Jutzeler /Abdullah Kahraman
- Evolution and environmental bioinformatics
- Anne-Florence Bitbol (Bitbol Lab – Laboratory of Computational Biology and Theoretical Biophysics, EPFL, Lausanne)
- Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas (Population Genomics Group, UNIL, Lausanne)
- Session Coordinator: Katja Bärenfaller
- Proteins design and modeling molecular assemblies
- Pedro Beltrao (Beltrao Group, Cellular consequences of genetic variation, ETH, Zurich)
- Janani Durairaj (Computational Structural Biology Group, University of Basel)
- Session Coordinator: Abdullah Kahraman
- Single-cell omics
- Marianna Rapsomaniki (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, UNIL, Lausanne)
- Julien Roux ( DBM Bioinformatics Core Facility, University Hospital Basel)
- Session Coordinator: David Gfeller