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James Bonfield @jbonfield.bsky.social · 29d

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.

Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚀 WE'RE BACK! "The Many Faces of Cancer Evolution" is coming back to Rimini on May 27-29, 2026! meetings.embo.org/event/26-can... Join me, Luca @magnanilab.bsky.social , Celine Vallot, and Samra @turajliclab.bsky.social for 3 days of amazing science on the beach! @embo.org meeting #cancer 👇👇

The Many Faces of Cancer Evolution

Cancer evolution is a multi-faceted process and a major clinical challenge. Indeed, tumors constantly change as they progress through multiple mechanisms, the understanding of which is critical to an…

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Sep 12

Couldn’t have said it better.. innovation and education are pillars of a healthy and growing economy! Share and sign the petition @unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Sep 12

Dear friends at the University of Lausanne - please consider signing this petition

This is to say NO to the funding cut of 24 million CHF that will negatively impact the quality of our teaching & research 🧪🧑🏼‍🎓 - and have a knock-on effect on the local economy

All students, staff, faculty can sign ⏬

Let’s reject budget cuts in education and research!

We, researchers, students, and members of the administrative and technical staff of the University of Lausanne (UNIL), firmly oppose the budget cuts announced for UNIL by the government of Vaud on 24t...

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Sep 9

Tremendous speaker line up with plenty of opportunities to present your work! REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN for 180 seats! Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚀 WE'RE BACK! "The Many Faces of Cancer Evolution" is coming back to Rimini on May 27-29, 2026! meetings.embo.org/event/26-can... Join me, Luca @magnanilab.bsky.social , Celine Vallot, and Samra @turajliclab.bsky.social for 3 days of amazing science on the beach! @embo.org meeting #cancer 👇👇

The Many Faces of Cancer Evolution

Cancer evolution is a multi-faceted process and a major clinical challenge. Indeed, tumors constantly change as they progress through multiple mechanisms, the understanding of which is critical to an…

meetings.embo.org

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Aug 7

Congratulations to Zoltan @zkutalik.bsky.social , Robin @rjhfmstr.bsky.social and the whole team for this fantastic work out today in ‪@nature.com 👍 ‬ www.nature.com/articles/s41... Your parents' genome matters more than you think 😉https://www.unil.ch/dbc/en/home.html @fbm-unil.bsky.social

Parent-of-origin effects on complex traits in up to 236,781 individuals - Nature

A novel multistep strategy reveals how parent-of-origin effects shape complex traits in large-scale biobanks.

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Adeel Ahmed @adeel-ahmed.bsky.social · Jul 28

Just like food - junk content and mental obesity will hit the most vulnerable the hardest. In such an environment, we must promote independent thought, nuanced discourse, and sustained engagement with any literature as ever more important skills in the future - starting from primary education. 🧪

Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jul 15

Looking forward to seeing you all soon in #Lausanne and if you haven't done so... REGISTER! there still time 👇👇👇 cbiosymposium.unil.ch

Computational Biology Symposium

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jul 15

Check out her fascinating work on the evolution of antibiotic resistance in Europe over the last two decades: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

The evolution of antibiotic resistance in Europe, 1998–2019

Author summary Antibiotic resistance is an important public health threat: resistant infections are currently associated with 5 million deaths per year globally. This burden may increase further in th...

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jul 15

🔥 18-19/9/25 🔥 Computational Biology Symposium in Lausanne! Meet the speakers: Sonja Lehtinen @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social Sonja uses #math #modeling to study the #ecology and #evolution of bacterial populations and #antibiotic #resistance

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congratulations @elisaoricchio.bsky.social Andy Oates, Nadine Vastenhouw and all the new #EMBOMembers2025 !

EMBO @embo.org · Jul 1

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪

Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO

Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jun 30

👇👇👇 Don't forget to register and join us in Lausanne for 2 wonderful days of #computationalbiology #AI #bioinformatics
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Computational Biology Symposium

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jun 30

Check out her recent works on imbalanced speciation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and its association with genetic diversity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Imbalanced speciation pulses sustain the radiation of mammals

The evolutionary histories of major clades, including mammals, often comprise changes in their diversification dynamics, but how these changes occur remains debated. We combined comprehensive phylogen...

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jun 30

🔥 18-19/9/25 🔥 Computational Biology Symposium in Lausanne! Meet the speakers: Helene Morlon www.phyloeco.bio.ens.psl.eu of the Ecole Normale Supérieure #Paris Helene's research combines #mathematics, #bioinformatics and fieldwork to study #macroevolution, #ecology, and #conservation

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Jun 26

The situation we’re in now [with AI] is like someone who has a very cute tiger cub. A tiger cub can make a great pet but you better be sure that when it's grown up it never wants to kill you. – Geoffrey Hinton (Father of AI)

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jun 24

🔥 REGISTER and SUBMIT an ABSTRACT 🔥 DEADLINE EXTENDED for abstract submission and thanks to generous funding, we cut the registration fees! you cannot miss it! cbiosymposium.unil.ch

Computational Biology Symposium

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jun 24

🔥 18-19/9/25 🔥 Computational Biology Symposium in Lausanne! Meet the speakers: Marianna Rapsomaniki @marianna-raps.bsky.social ‬ @unil.bsky.social ‬develops innovative #AI #ML approaches tailored to complex and multi-modal #biomedical data with a focus in #cancer

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jun 10

🔥 18-19/9/25 🔥 Computational Biology Symposium in #Lausanne! Meet the speakers: Anne-Florence Bitbol @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social‬ brings together #computationalbiology and theoretical #biophysics to study life at multiple scales! www.epfl.ch/labs/bitbol-...

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jun 3

🔥 18-19/9/25 🔥 Computational Biology Symposium in Lausanne! Meet the speakers: Mo Lotfollahi @sangerinstitute.bsky.social is expert of cutting-edge #AI approaches to study #singlecell biology , #generativeAI, and #spatialbiology lotfollahi.com

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · May 27

🔥 18-19/9/25 🔥 Computational Biology Symposium in Lausanne! Meet the speakers: Roser Vento-Tormo @sangerinstitute.bsky.social has pioneered computational approaches to study cell-cell interactions with the now legendary CellPhoneDB www.cellphonedb.org #bioinformatics #SingleCell #compbio

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · May 16

Zoltán Kutalik @zkutalik.bsky.social · May 16

Meet another invited speaker to our Computational Biology Symposium in Lausanne [https://cbiosymposium.unil.ch/]: Andrea Ganna www.atgu.mgh.harvard.edu/people/andre...

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · May 13

🔥 Computational Biology is Everywhere! CBIO Symposium in Lausanne cbiosymposium.unil.ch meet our KEYNOTE speaker Michael P. Brenner @harvard.edu brennergroup.seas.harvard.edu
Michael's research uses applied mathematics and physics to address problems in life science, engineering, ... and cooking 😎

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jun 24

🔥 REGISTER and SUBMIT an ABSTRACT 🔥 DEADLINE EXTENDED for abstract submission and thanks to generous funding, we cut the registration fees! you cannot miss it! cbiosymposium.unil.ch

Computational Biology Symposium

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jun 24

Check out some her recent work on #AI in #precisiononcology and #spatialtranscriptomics in #cancer pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38658785/ academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Overcoming limitations in current measures of drug response may enable AI-driven precision oncology - PubMed

Machine learning (ML) models of drug sensitivity prediction are becoming increasingly popular in precision oncology. Here, we identify a fundamental limitation in standard measures of drug sensitivity...

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Giovanni Ciriello @ciriellolab.bsky.social · Jun 24

🔥 18-19/9/25 🔥 Computational Biology Symposium in Lausanne! Meet the speakers: Marianna Rapsomaniki @marianna-raps.bsky.social ‬ @unil.bsky.social ‬develops innovative #AI #ML approaches tailored to complex and multi-modal #biomedical data with a focus in #cancer

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