Tag: robert waterhouse group

Biodiversity Genomics Europe: Characterizing and preserving life using DNA data

Animals as different as wasps and snakes have adopted surprisingly similar molecular mechanisms to squirt toxins out of their specialized cells. This is revealed by a study led by SIB scientists, who have conducted the first comparative analysis of...

As members of the Swiss node of the European Reference Genome Atlas initiative, several SIB Groups are participating in a Pilot Project to sequence reference genomes for selected species across Europe. The results of the first phase of the Pilot...

About Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) Both as an employer, and as the ambassador of the Swiss bioinformatics community, SIB has a critical role to play in ensuring and fostering diversity and equal opportunities in the workplace as well as in...

A changing planet threatens many species, including bumblebees - globally important pollinators in natural ecosystems and in agricultural food production. An international team co-led by SIB researchers at the University of Lausanne sequenced the...

What are the latest computational advances to better understand diseases or ecosystems? How are bioinformaticians facing the COVID-19 crisis? The first virtual edition of our internal conference (8-10 June) has remained true to its ambition to...

An international team of scientists report in the journal Genome Biology results from a pilot project, co-led by SIB Group Leader Robert Waterhouse at the University of Lausanne, to kick-start the global sequencing initiative of thousands of...

SIB Scientists demonstrate how genome-comparison-based evolutionary approaches can be used to improve draft assemblies.

A behind-the-scenes look at a recent paper on the origin of beetle biodiversity, and the bioinformatics tools used along the way.

Just a few days after the IPBES’ global biodiversity assessment was presented in Paris, SIB Scientists at the University of Lausanne published a paper explaining the origin of the biodiversity observed among beetles, arguably the largest species...

How does this insect, which is an important model species, feed on poisonous milkweed seeds and use the acquired toxins for its own protection and bright red warning colouration? To explore these phenomena, an international study including SIB...

Robert Waterhouse, SIB Group Leader at the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Lausanne, and his team discovered that a set of genes in mosquitoes does not seem to evolve in the same way it does in other insects...

What makes the wheat stem sawfly such a major pest in the grasslands of North America? An international study co-led by SIB researchers at the University of Lausanne unravels its genome...

What we do The group’s research is focused on elucidating interactions between gene evolution and gene function through developing computational approaches to interrogate evolutionary and functional genomics data. We are developing quantifications...

With ever-lowering sequencing costs, genomic sequencing projects have been initiated for a wide range of organisms, but the vast majority of genomes currently exist in the form of draft assemblies.