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From Tuesday March 16th to Wednesday June 16th 2021 Our work dynamics The Bioinfo4Women Programme of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)’s Life Sciences Department will coordinate the series. The series is structured on two main themes: (1) personalized medicine and (2) artificial intelligence. Each theme will include different activities: seminar, working group and participatory workshop. The goal of these activities is to allow and encourage discussion between scientists and prominent representatives from different fields (business, media, NGOs, research institutes and public administration, among others) and to raise awareness about sex and gender bias in health and about the risk of amplifying and perpetuating bias through artificial intelligence.

Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia 2021 Bioinfo Women's Day at BSC The Barcelona Supercomputing Center, in the framework of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and as part of the BSC’s Bioinfo4Women programme, invites you to discover the work of women bioinformatics researchers and to visit (in this edition, virtually) the MareNostrum 4, the most powerful supercomputer in Spain. Through informal 15-minute talks, we seek to establish a link with young students, encouraging their involvement in the bioinformatics research field and strengthening their professional motivation in the areas of personalised medicine, genome analysis, natural language processing applied to biomedicine and the evolution of genomes from a molecular perspective. ACTIVITIES: Presentation of the BSC, 15 minute talks with women bioinformatics researchers of…

Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash Over 150 worldwide submissions for the AdvCompBio, an inclusive all-women speaker conference in Computational Biology Submission to the Advances in Computational Biology Conference 2019 - Fostering collaboration among women scientists is now closed, and the organizing committee and Conference Chairs are proud to announce that the conference has attracted a total of 156 submissions by female authors from more than 30 countries, with all continents represented!  As for the tracks, we received 72 abstracts for the track ‘Learning from biological sequences’, 37 for ‘Machines Speeding up Research’ and 47 for ‘When Computational Biology meets Medicine’. The scientific committee has started to review abstracts and authors will be notified by the 9th of September. We are sure that a very interesting and varied conference lies…

More information: https://www.iscb.org/advcompbio2019 The first Advances in Computational Biology conference will bring together researchers working on systems biology, omics technologies, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing with applications to biology from both the public and private sectors. One of the main purposes of the conference is to promote and make the research done by women in the bioinformatics field visible. This is why all speakers will be women,although the conference is open to everyone. We want to create a space to foster collaborations between scientists, providing an excellent opportunity to share ideas and build research networks. The programme will include poster and oral presentations, as well as keynotes from leading scientists in the computational biology and high-performance computing fields. The keynote speakers of the conference are: Christine Orengo, group leader of Orengo Group at University College…

From the Life Sciences Department at BSC we are working to visualize and improve the work of women leaders in science. Currently the department counts with different women working as Principal Investigators, Senior Researchers, PostDocs, PhD Students, Technicians and Management Staff. We are glad to have recently incorporated two women PI into the Life Sciences Department. Natasa Przulj is head of the Integrative Computational Network Biology Research Group, while Marta Melé leads the Transcriptomics and Functional Genomics Research Group.