SIB Days 2020: Ecosystems bioinformatics in ecology and agriculture
Channel: SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Date: 01/07/2020

Parallel Session 2: Ecology & Agriculture

The living world presents numerous intricate complexities that we strive to understand by
combining data analysis approaches with observation and experiments. Ecosystems vary
greatly in size and diversity, for example from whole oceans, to the human gut microbiome,
to simplified model systems that we use to understand interactions between organisms.
Development of new bioinformatics tools and computational approaches enable us to infer
complex evolutionary histories and adaptive changes and relate these to changing
ecosystems. These methods help us understand the dynamics and equilibria ruling the living
world in a changing environment, and offer real applications from biotechnology to
biomedical research as well as in conservation biology, ecology, and agriculture. Sequencing
data provide a large and varied source of information that require tools and models to
investigate patterns of micro- and macro-evolutionary processes within and between species.
This session aims to showcase the research of SIB groups working on unravelling the dynamics and mechanisms underlying interactions at many levels, often with applications to ecology and agriculture.

Session Chairs: Maria Anisimova (Applied Computational Genomics Team, Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, Wädenswil), Théo Gaboriau (Computational Phylogenetics Group, University of Lausanne)

Talks (click to access specific sections of the talk)
Introduction 00:00
Exploring uncharted phylogenomic diversity reveals novel chemistry in the global ocean microbiome, Lucas Paoli, Microbiome Research Group, ETH Zurich 02:04
Quantitative biomonitoring of agricultural soils using protist communities, Carlos-Andrés Peña-Reyes, Computational Intelligence for Computational Biology (CI4CB), - HEIG-VD, Yverdon-Les-Bains 17:17
Ecological insights from the analysis of the Microbe Atlas Project dataset, a global reference set of a million microbiome samples, João Matias Rodrigues, Bioinformatics / Systems Biology, University of Zurich 27:46

About the SIB Days: this internal conference of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is organized every two years. Its ambition? To give a voice to SIB's 80 Groups across Switzerland, through a diversity of bioinformatics topics, and to offer its 800 SIB Members an opportunity to meet and learn about each other’s research and activities in a friendly atmosphere. Due to this year’s events, the conference has taken place virtually for the first time, on 8-10 June 2020. Most of the talks could be made public post-event.


Read more about the SIB Days: https://www.sib.swiss/about-sib/news/10713-virtual-sib-days-2020-swiss-bioinformatics-highlights-recorded-sessions