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Postdoctoral position to develop deep learning approaches in Computational Biology & Gene Regulation
by Anthony Mathelier 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

Dear all, We are looking for a postdoc to work on machine learning / deep learning in the context of regulatory genomics. If you know of any good candidate, please share the following link: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/194647/postdoctoral-position… Thanks for your help Best AM -- Anthony Mathelier, PhD Group Leader - Computational Biology & Gene Regulation Group Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM) Adjunct Researcher - Dept. of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital http://mathelierlab.com anthony.mathelier(a)ncmm.uio.no (+47) 22840561

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Aacademic position in Computer science applied to life sciences
by Laurent Gatto 18 Oct '20

18 Oct '20

UCLouvain invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured full-time position in Computer science applied to life sciences Vacancy Reference : 26802 / EPL 076 / 2021 (to be quoted in any correspondence) https://jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAcademique/job/An-academic-position-in-C… Context: UCLouvain is a comprehensive university offering, in the context of the present position, the opportunity of cross-disciplinary research and teaching collaborations with specialists in the field of medicine, life sciences, mathematical, numerical and computational sciences, electronics, energy, among many others. The position is attached to the Louvain School of Engineering and to the Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics that offer opportunities for diverse and stimulating teaching as well as an environment to carry out ambitious research. The Louvain-la-Neuve site offers a unique living environment conveniently located at the heart of Europe. The Charleroi site offers a quality environment in higher education, at the heart of a region in full economic development, centred on new technologies. Teaching: The successful candidate will have teaching assignments in our new bachelor's degree in computer science and e-health being created at the site of Charleroi, as well as in teaching in the computer science degrees at Louvain-la-Neuve, in particular the bachelor of computer science, the master in computer science engineering and the master in computer science. Bachelor level courses are taught mainly in French, master level courses exclusively in English. Research: The successful candidate will develop and drive a cutting-edge research in computer science that help solve difficult problems in the fields of medicine or life sciences in a large sense. More specifically, the candidate will be an expert in one or more of the following research areas, without however wanting to be exhaustive: - medical or biomedical informatics; - bioinformatics or biostatistics; - analysis, management or visualization of medical and biological data; - software engineering of medical systems; - artificial intelligence; - ubiquitous computing; - high performance scientific computing. Function: - Be responsible for teaching courses at all study levels (i.e. undergraduate and postgraduate), as well as in programmes of continuing education; - Supervise the final diploma research (i.e. theses) of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as PhD theses; - Be involved in (and/or supervise, promote) research programmes; - Be available to carry out, in the long term, different service activities and take on responsibilities within the University and its entities; - Contribute to the international visibility of the University through teaching and research excellence; - Contribute to activities of the University with a societal impact in the fields of the economy, socio-cultural changes or cooperation with developing countries. General conditions: Required Qualifications : the applicant must have - A PhD degree in Computer science or engineering sciences with an IT orientation or any comparable discipline; - Either studied abroad for an extensive period or have had substantial experience outside his or her university of origin; - A significant scientific record with international publications; - Experience in and the aptitude for teaching at university level, demonstrated if possible by formal assessments; - The capacity to work within a team of teachers and to integrate research findings into teaching; - Creativity and must be open to teaching innovation and interdisciplinarity; - The capacities required to undertake high-level academic research: capacity to raise research funds, to supervise projects, to animate and lead a research team; - Team management and communication skills, including if possible fluency in French and English, spoken and written. Otherwise, the applicant will be asked to acquire them within two years after taking office, in order to be able to communicate and teach in these languages. Knowledge of other languages is an additional asset. Specific Qualifications: The candidate’s involvement in the new Bachelor’s degree in computer science in Charleroi should be seen by the candidate as a unique opportunity to increase the visibility and development of computer science and e-health in Belgium and the region of Charleroi in particular. Given the involvement in the teaching of this Bachelor degree, knowledge of the French language, spoken and written, is essential. In addition to teaching qualities, the quality of research will be an important factor in the selection of the candidate. Experience in open source software development will also be seen as an important asset. Offer: The level of recruitment (appointment to the rank of lecturer or professor) will be discussed if a proposal is made to you, in connection with your previous academic experience. For more information, see: jobs.uclouvain.be. Our HR policy supports equal opportunities and diversity including in the academic career. Attention is also paid to reconciliation of private life and professional life. Practical Information Application deadline: Monday, November 16, 2020 at noon Starting date: 1st September, 2021 Further information : Prof. Alain Jonas, Dean EPL – doyen-epl(a)uclouvain.be Prof. Jean-Didier Legat, President ICTM – president-ictm(a)uclouvain.be Localization: Science and Technology Sector - Louvain School of Engineering (EPL) (https://uclouvain.be/en/faculties/epl) - Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTM) (https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ICTEAM)

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Data steward and 2 postdoc positions at LCSB, University of Luxembourg
by Venkata Pardhasaradhi SATAGOPAM 18 Oct '20

18 Oct '20

Dear all Currently we are having a data steward and two postdoc positions in clinical and translational medicine informatics research domain. Please follow below links for more details. Data steward: http://emea3.mrted.ly/2j9em Postdoc positions: http://emea3.mrted.ly/2j665 http://emea3.mrted.ly/2j5gi It would be great if you can circulate these open positions in your circles. Thanks & Regards, Venkata — Dr. Venkata Satagopam Bioinformatics Core Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) University of Luxembourg Campus Belval, House of Biomedicine II 6, avenue du Swing L-4367 Belvaux T +352-466-644-6421 F +352-466-644-36421 venkata.satagopam(a)uni.lu<mailto:venkata.satagopam@uni.lu> http://lcsb.uni.lu ----- This message is confidential and may contain privileged information. It is intended for the named recipient only. If you receive it in error please notify me and permanently delete the original message and any copies. -----

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CFP: AIHA (ICPR2020 workshop) - DEADLINE EXTENDED!
by Nicole Dalia CILIA 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

[image: logoAHIA.PNG] *CALL FOR PAPERS* International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Applications (AIHA 2020) http://lia.unicas.it/AIHA2020 The workshop will be held on *January 10*, *2021* in conjunction with *ICPR 2020* <https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/> (25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy, January 10-15, 2021). // S U B M I S S I O N D E A D L I N E \\ \\ E X T E N D E D T O 1 7 O C T O B E R !!! // The increased availability of medical data collected from healthcare systems has enabled a number of artificial intelligence applications. Specifically, machine learning can generate insights to improve the discovery of new therapeutic tools, to support diagnostic decisions, to help in the rehabilitation process, just to name a few. Bringing together the advances of this wide and multidisciplinary subject, the aim of this workshop is to present recent advances in artificial intelligence techniques for healthcare applications. *TOPICS* Topics include but are not limited to the following: - Biomedical image analysis - Data analytics for healthcare - Automatic disease prediction - Automatic diagnosis support systems - Genomic and proteomic data analysis - Artificial intelligence for personalized medicine - Machine Learning as a tool to support medical diagnosis and decisions - Machine learning on handwriting and eye-tracking traces for diagnosis and rehabilitation - Decoding of neural signals for diagnosis assistance - Physiological signals processing - Gait analysis - Therapy selection - Brain-computer interface for healthcare - Biomechatronics for medicine - Neuromotor rehabilitation *INVITED SPEAKER * Nico Karssemeijer <http://lia.unicas.it/AIHA2020/invited.html>, Co-chair of DIAG <http://diagnijmegen.nl/index.php/Home> at Radboud UMC, Founder of ScreenPoint <https://screenpoint-medical.com/> Co-founder of Volpara <https://www.matakina.com/> Professor of Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. *DATES * - Paper Submission: October 17, 2020 (*EXTENDED*) - Notification of Acceptance: November 10, 2020 - Camera-ready Submission: November 15, 2020 *SUBMISSIONS * Submissions must be formatted in accordance with the Springer's Computer Science Proceedings guidelines (Guidelines <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>). Two types of contribution will be considered: - Full papers (12-15 pages, including references) - Short papers (6-8 pages, including references) Accepted manuscripts will be included in the ICPR 2020 Workshop Proceedings Springer volume. Once accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the event and orally present the paper. Submission instructions are available here <http://lia.unicas.it/AIHA2020/submission.html>. The submission platform is available here: EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiha2020> *CHAIRS * Alessandro Bria, Nicole Dalia Cilia, Francesco Fontanella, Claudio Marrocco University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy *PROCEEDINGS AND SPECIAL ISSUE* Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). We are negotiating with major international journals the publication of a special issue for selected papers presented at the workshop. Contact Information: Nicole Dalia Cilia, nicoledalia.cilia(a)unicas.it

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postdoc position
by Age Smilde 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

Dear All, Please find an advertisement for a joint postdoc position in my group: https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2020/10/20-605-joint-postdoctoral-r… https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/294872/joint-postdoctoral-researcher-fo… Regards, Age Smilde Age K. Smilde Science Park Room C2.269 Phone: +31 20 525 5062 Email: a.k.smilde(a)uva.nl<mailto:a.k.smilde@uva.nl> Website: www.bdagroup.nl

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Wet-lab PostDoc wanted for microbiome work in Cork, Ireland
by Claesson, Marcus 11 Oct '20

11 Oct '20

I'm looking for a talented wet-lab PostDoc to join our team to learn more about the role of microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease. Apply here http://ore.ucc.ie (ref 042075) -- Marcus J. Claesson, PhD Lecturer at School of Microbiology & Principal Investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland University College Cork Western Road, Cork, Ireland Tel: +353-(0)21-4901390 Email: m.claesson(a)ucc.ie<mailto:m.claesson@ucc.ie> http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5712-0623

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CFP OLA'2021 @Sicily, Italia
by El-ghazali Talbi 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. **************************************************************************************** OLA'2021 International Conference on Optimization and Learning 21-23 June 2021 Catania (Sicilia), Italy http://ola2021.sciencesconf.org/ **************************************************************************************** OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization and learning methods and their applications. The conference OLA'2021 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. OLA'2021 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and learning research such as big optimization and learning, optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, deep learning, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, computer vision, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization ... Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions: - S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages - S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages Important dates: =============== Invited session organization Dec 18, 2020 Paper submission deadline Dec 18, 2020 Notification of acceptance March 24, 2021 Proceedings: Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings. A SCOPUS and DBLP indexed Springer book will be published for best accepted long papers. All proceedings will be available at the conference. -- *********************************************************************** OLA'2021 International Conference on Optimization and Learning 23-25 June 2021, Catania, Italy http://ola2021.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS

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CFP: AIHA (ICPR2020 workshop) - DEADLINE EXTENDED!
by Nicole Dalia CILIA 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

[image: logoAHIA.PNG] *CALL FOR PAPERS* International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Applications (AIHA 2020) http://lia.unicas.it/AIHA2020 The workshop will be held on *January 10*, *2021* in conjunction with *ICPR 2020* <https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/> (25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy, January 10-15, 2021). // S U B M I S S I O N D E A D L I N E \\ \\ E X T E N D E D T O 1 5 O C T O B E R !!! // The increased availability of medical data collected from healthcare systems has enabled a number of artificial intelligence applications. Specifically, machine learning can generate insights to improve the discovery of new therapeutic tools, to support diagnostic decisions, to help in the rehabilitation process, just to name a few. Bringing together the advances of this wide and multidisciplinary subject, the aim of this workshop is to present recent advances in artificial intelligence techniques for healthcare applications. *TOPICS* Topics include but are not limited to the following: - Biomedical image analysis - Data analytics for healthcare - Automatic disease prediction - Automatic diagnosis support systems - Genomic and proteomic data analysis - Artificial intelligence for personalized medicine - Machine Learning as a tool to support medical diagnosis and decisions - Machine learning on handwriting and eye-tracking traces for diagnosis and rehabilitation - Decoding of neural signals for diagnosis assistance - Physiological signals processing - Gait analysis - Therapy selection - Brain-computer interface for healthcare - Biomechatronics for medicine - Neuromotor rehabilitation *INVITED SPEAKER * Nico Karssemeijer <http://lia.unicas.it/AIHA2020/invited.html>, Co-chair of DIAG <http://diagnijmegen.nl/index.php/Home> at Radboud UMC, Founder of ScreenPoint <https://screenpoint-medical.com/> Co-founder of Volpara <https://www.matakina.com/> Professor of Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. *DATES * - Paper Submission: October 15, 2020 (*EXTENDED*) - Notification of Acceptance: November 10, 2020 - Camera-ready Submission: November 15, 2020 *SUBMISSIONS * Submissions must be formatted in accordance with the Springer's Computer Science Proceedings guidelines (Guidelines <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>). Two types of contribution will be considered: - Full papers (12-15 pages, including references) - Short papers (6-8 pages, including references) Accepted manuscripts will be included in the ICPR 2020 Workshop Proceedings Springer volume. Once accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the event and orally present the paper. Submission instructions are available here <http://lia.unicas.it/AIHA2020/submission.html>. The submission platform is available here: EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiha2020> *CHAIRS * Alessandro Bria, Nicole Dalia Cilia, Francesco Fontanella, Claudio Marrocco University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy *PROCEEDINGS AND SPECIAL ISSUE* Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). We are negotiating with major international journals the publication of a special issue for selected papers presented at the workshop. Contact Information: Nicole Dalia Cilia, nicoledalia.cilia(a)unicas.it

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Gencovery - bioinformatician
by Karoline Faust 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

Looking for a Bioinformatics scientist in systems biology and modelling * Company: Gencovery * Website: https://gencovery.com * Starting date: January 2021 * Contact: D.A. Ouattara, douattara(a)gencovery.com<mailto:douattara@gencovery.com> * Closing application date: 31 Nov. 2020 Description of the company GENCOVERY is a software company based in Lyon (France) which develops a collaborative AI software to accelerate bioengineering and bioproduction processes of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. The developments of the company are focused on two axes: a collection of algorithms for the construction and simulation of cell metabolic models, and a software suite designed to handle complex omics data and analytical pipelines. Generated in silico models, called digital organisms, can be used to simulate experiments and assess biological hypothesis, thereby significantly shortening time and cost of in vivo and in vitro experiments. The company is looking today for a talented Bioinformatics scientist in systems biology and modelling to develop and manage its bioinformatics and modelling pipelines. Required qualifications * You have a PhD in bioinformatics, systems biology or computational biology * You have 2-5 years of experiences in academia or industry in bioinformatics, systems biology or computational biology. * You have a strong expertise in the modelling of biological networks, in particular metabolic pathways (e.g. metabolic reconstruction, whole-genome metabolic modelling, flux balance analysis). * You have a good experience in the analysis of at least one type of omics data (e.g. genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics data). Gencovery, SAS – 47 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69100 Villeurbanne, https://gencovery.com Gencovery Collaborative AI software & digital organisms in biotechnology * You have an experience or are interested in the modelling of the metabolism of microbial communities. * You have a good experience on standard bioinformatics tools and databases: o Python, R, Jupyter lab, o Biopython, Scikit-learn, Pandas, o NCBI databases, EMBL-EBI databases, Kegg, BioCyc, etc. Missions * You will be in charge of developing the in-house bioinformatics pipelines that will feed our portfolio of analytics methods. * You will be accountable of the execution and delivery of the bioinformatics analyses to our customers (data integration and curation, modelling and simulation, reporting). * Your will be in charge of the supervision of bioinformaticians and students. Working place Gencovery technologies are designed for collaborative remote work. This is important for next-generation research and development in particular with the COVID-19 pandemic. Gencovery has therefore decided to encourage and develop remote work for its own employees. The recruited candidate must be autonomous and committed to quality reporting. She/He will have to travel to Paris (or Lyon if easier) at least once a month for global team meetings. Closing application date: 31 Nov. 2020 Position type: Permanent position Salary: Attractive with career evolution opportunities To apply for this position, please send a resume and cover letter to: douattara(a)gencovery.com<mailto:douattara@gencovery.com> Gencovery, SAS – 47 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69100 Villeurbanne, https://gencovery.com

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BSC: Life Sciences vacancy
by BSC Human Resources 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

Dear all, We would like to inform you about a new job opportunitiy offered by Barcelona Supercomputing Center: - Computational linguist (RE1). Deadline: 31 October, 2020 Link here <https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/31820lstmre1> We would appreciate that you share the information with your contacts. Sincerely, /Human Resources/* Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación* Tel. +34- 934137745 <mailto:anais.delastre@bsc.es>www.bsc.es <http://www.bsc.es/> http://bsc.es/disclaimer

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