2018

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ETH Zurich is the proud recipient of a new research funding instrument called “ETH+ Grants” with which ETH aims to fund major interdisciplinary research projects. In addition to this, ETH Zurich hopes to significantly reduce flight emissions. After making these decisions, the Executive Board of ETH Zurich will now take its leave for the holidays.

In collaboration with Scientific IT Services, ETH Library conducts three consecutive workshops, each building upon the knowledge of the previous, which focus on the various elements of research data management along the research data life cycle. The first workshop on 30 January 2019 introduces the basics of research data management (RDM) and discusses the role of Open Science in RDM.

In autumn 2018, many students and young researchers at D-BSSE started to learn German, others might want to start in 2019. The course organisers from the Scientific Staff Association (VMB) are requesting feedback on the times, levels and frequencies of German classes in order to meet students’ needs for 2019. Vote via doodle.

Scientists look to fossils and evolutionary trees to help determine the rate of evolution - albeit with conflicting results. A new model developed by the group of D-BSSE Professor Tanja Stadler together with colleagues from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and from Gothenburg, Sweden, has helped to resolve these contradictions.

What the Chinese scientist He Jiankui has done is utterly irresponsible, asserts Jacob Corn. Nonetheless, we should not vilify germline therapy for good.

As a response to ETH Zürich's "real master rap video" the students' entrepreneurs club created their own video and invite interested students to consider developing their business idea. Check it out!

The French postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Evolution group of Tanja Stadler is developing statistical models which will help health officials to take well-informed decisions. Upon arrival in Basel, Marc was positively surprised by the Swiss traffic behaviour – cars and bikes do stop for pedestrians.

Professor Georg Holländer, pediatrician who holds a double professorship at the universities of Basel and Oxford, and Professor Sai Reddy from the D-BSSE will head the newly founded Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH), Holländer as the founding Director and Reddy as Vice Director. The BRCCH will begin operations in Basel at the beginning of 2019 and will be established gradually.

How do tumours evolve? And, why are the cells in tumours so different from one another? Researchers from the Computational Biology group of Niko Beerenwinkel and from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics developed a new approach to detect mutations in individual tumour cells by leveraging the evolutionary relationship amongst cells. The new method published in the journal Nature Communications showed promising results when applied to real-world datasets of different cancer types.