261-5113-00L Computational Challenges in Medical Genomics (Spring 2022)

Abstract
This seminar discusses recent relevant contributions to the fields of computational genomics, algorithmic bioinformatics, statistical genetics and related areas. Each participant will hold a presentation and lead the subsequent discussion.

Objective
Preparing and holding a scientific presentation in front of peers is a central part of working in the scientific domain. In this seminar, the participants will learn how to efficiently summarize the relevant parts of a scientific publication, critically reflect its contents, and summarize it for presentation to an audience. The necessary skills to succesfully present the key points of existing research work are the same as needed to communicate own research ideas. In addition to holding a presentation, each student will both contribute to as well as lead a discussion section on the topics presented in the class.

Content
The topics covered in the seminar are related to recent computational challenges that arise from the fields of genomics and biomedicine, including but not limited to genomic variant interpretation, genomic sequence analysis, compressive genomics tasks, single-cell approaches, privacy considerations, statistical frameworks, etc. Both recently published works contributing novel ideas to the areas mentioned above as well as seminal contributions from the past are amongst the list of selected papers.

Location

The seminar is currently being held as a hybrid event. The seminar takes place physically at ETH in CAB G 57 (link to location). The time is Mondays 14-16. 

In addition, the seminar will be streamed (and recorded) as an online event, using the Zoom video conference platform. Presenters and attendees can chose whether they would like to participate in person or remotely. Attendance is taken in any case. When joining online, the students are asked to switch on their camera. 

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