Previous events
Alvaro Köhn-Luque from the University of Oslo will present the next BiLS seminar on "Cancer Digital Twins: From Personalised Treatments to In Silico Trials".
Valeria Vitelli from the University of Oslo will present the next BiLS seminar on "Bayesian learning for high-dimensional biomedical data: research directions in unsupervised and supervised settings".
The next BiLS seminar will feature Ieva Rauluseviciute and Ladislav Hovan from University of Oslo presenting “Software quality and code review meetings for reproducible science”.
The next BiLS seminar will feature Anthony Mathelier from University of Oslo presenting “High-resolution modeling and mapping of TF-DNA interactions”.
Dr. Oscar Rueda, Group Leader at the MRC Biostatistics Unit and a CRUK Career Establishment Awardee, UK, will present his current research on "Biologically-informed models to improve prediction in cancer."
Sigve Nakken from Oslo University Hospital will present the next BiLS seminar on "Matching cancer patients to clinical trials with AI".
Dr Marcel Schulz, Professor for Computational Biology at the Goethe University and Uniklinikum, Frankfurt, will present his current research on "Digital twins for modelling gene expression: applications to association studies and personalized drug recommendation."
The next BiLS seminar will feature Elin Sandertun Røed from University of Oslo presenting “Prescription drug use, the gut microbiome and colorectal cancer”, and Divyeshkumar Amrubthai Patel from University of Oslo presenting “Computational strategies for quantification of transposable elements expression”.
Simon Rayner from Oslo University Hospital will present the next BiLS seminar on "Ancestral variation in the non-coding genome and association with risk of non-commiunicable disease".
Andrew Hayden Morris from University of Oslo will present the next BiLS seminar on "Polygenic hazard scores for precision cancer screening: from population genetics to clinical implementation".
Christian Bope will present the next BiLS seminar on "Automated Long-Read Diagnostics and High-Confidence Signature Attribution: The DIANA and StarSignDNA Ecosystem".
Dr. Laura Cantini, CNRS researcher, chair in the Paris Institute of AI (PRAIRIE) and junior group leader heading the Machine Learning for Integrative Genomics group at the Institut Pasteur, will present her current research on "Breaking Silos in Single-Cell Biology: Towards a Unified Cellular View."
Rolf Skotheim from Oslo University Hospital will present the next BiLS seminar on "Cancer transcriptomics beyond one gene–one number: variant aware, spatial and prostate cancer use cases".
Dr. David Knowles, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, will present his research on "Dissecting complex disease mechanisms with causal inference and deep learning." This seminar co-organized as part of the NCMBM International, BiLS, and Furberg seminar series.
The next BiLS seminar will be a special double session featuring Andreas Kleppe from Oslo University Hospital and the University of Oslo presenting “Training better computational pathology models to improve cancer care”, and Matt Salganik from Princeton University presenting “The life course perspective for precision health: New opportunities from population registries, biobanks, and AI”.
Eivind Valen from the University of Oslo will present the next BiLS seminar on "Uncovering the dark proteome and characterizing protein synthesis at scale".
Dr. Aziz Khan, assistant professor of computational biology at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, will present the work on the "Polyclonal origins of human premalignant colorectal lesions."
A networking event as part of the Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week at the University of Oslo, Norway
December 8th-12th 2025 will see the fourth edition of the Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week at the University of Oslo, Norway. This event is organised by the Trainee Committee of BiLS (Bioinformatics in Life Science) at UiO. These workshops are open to the scientific community in Oslo and the surrounding area.
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Any questions about the event should be addressed to oslo-bioinfo-workshops@ifi.uio.no.
PhD candidate Fabiana Patalano at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Evolutionary conservation and gene regulatory implications of 3D genome compartmentalization' for the degree of PhD
Dr. Dariusz Plewczynski is professor at University of Warsaw, and heads the Laboratory of Functional and Structural Genomics at the Center of New Technologies. His research is focussed on functional and structural genomics and he aims to make use of the vast wealth of data produced by high-throughput genomics projects. He will lecture on "Applications of deep learning methods in 3D genomics”.