Graduar-se en el moment clau de la bioinformàtica
18/07/2023
El passat 6 de juliol va tenir lloc la graduació de la cinquena promoció del Grau en Bioinformàtica (BDBI) a la sala d’actes d’ESCI-UPF.
Bioinformatics
Not Just Bioinformatics
01/03/2023
I have always thought that you cannot let yourself be defined by a single idea. Following that thought, parallel to my Bioinformatics degree at ESCI-UPF, I work as an indie video game developer. In this article, I will explain how it started and what the work is like.
Dia de la Dona i la Nena a la Ciència
Dones, ciència i… igualtat?
06/02/2023
Laia Serradell, responsable de la Unitat d’Igualtat, parla de les desigualtats que encara existeixen al nostre país en l’àmbit científic. En aquest sentit, el proper dia 8 ESCI-UPF organitza una xerrada amb tres científiques que es dediquen a la bioinformàtica: la biofísica Paula Petrone, la genetista Cinta Pegueroles i l’alumni del BDBI Marta Ibañez.
ESCOLAB 2022-2023
Entendre el consum de cànnabis a través de la bioinformàtica
25/01/2023
Alberto Meseguer, coordinador del Grau en Bioinformàtica, explica el tema dels tallers d’ESCOLAB d’aquest curs 2022-2023, enfocats a descobrir i entendre com afecta el consum de cànnabis al nostre cervell a través de les eines que proporciona la bioinformàtica.
The Career Path after Graduating from BDBI
30/11/2022
Last week, the BDBI alumni Marta Ibáñez and Aina Montalban were the last guest speakers of the term of Introduction to Bioinformatics talks.
Perspectives from a Research Lab and a Start-up
18/11/2022
In a new Introduction to Bioinformatics talk, Esther Lizano, postdoc researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and co-founder and CSO of Flomics Biotech, explained to BDBI students two of the vast career options a bioinformatician can pursue based on her professional experience.
BDBI Talks
José Miguel Ramírez shares his PhD topic with BDBI students
11/11/2022
Last Wednesday, the alumni of Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics, José Miguel Ramírez and Alba Malagón, were the guest speakers at the Introduction to Bioinformatics talk addressed to first-year students. They explained their career path and their area of research.
BDBI Talks
Nextflow and Biology Computational Challenges
08/11/2022
Cédric Notredame, group leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), talked about sequence analysis in evolutionary biology, how the workflow language Nextflow has improved data integration and algorithms and the main challenges computational biology faces at present.
Transcriptomics: from Microarrays to Spatial Transcriptomics
07/11/2022
Last week, Lara Nonell, Bioinformatics Unit group leader of Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) came to ESCI-UPF to talk about transcriptomics.
Assembly and Annotation of Reference Genomes
25/10/2022
In a new Introduction to Bioinformatics talk, Tyler Alioto, from CNAG-CRG, introduced some DNA sequencing technologies that make possible a wide range of genomic research.
“AI captures our values and interests, but also our biases”
04/10/2022
Students attending the Introduction to Bioinformatics course had the opportunity to listen to Paula Petrone, Biomedical Data Science team leader at ISGlobal, speaking about Artificial Intelligence.
BDBI: Sobreviure a la setmana introductòria
27/09/2022
Després d’unes quantes classes, hem tornat a parlar amb els estudiants de 1r del BDBI per saber com estaven sobrevivint a la setmana introductòria. Voleu saber què ens han dit?
Primer dia al BDBI
15/09/2022
La setmana passada els estudiants de primer del Grau en Bioinformàtica van començar la seva aventura universitària amb la tradicional sessió de benvinguda.