Dear all,
Since mid-May 2024, a group of bioinformaticians based on the Lyon-Est research campus has been working on the creation of a local Lyon network dedicated to bioinformatics engineering, with the aim of bringing together the bioinformatics community across the Lyon area.
The goals of this project are:
- To work alongside the national MERIT network, which federates bioinformatics engineers across France under the CNRS umbrella, and to contribute to the establishment of a labelled Lyon chapter within that network.
- To foster knowledge sharing among network members.
- To provide a dedicated space for bioinformaticians who are sometimes isolated within their own institutions.
- To give bioinformatics professionals opportunities to meet and share expertise.
The network is open to bioinformatics professionals from both academic and private laboratories across the Lyon area.
Please spread the word and share the mailing list link with your bioinformatician and biostatistician colleagues.
We would like to invite you to a first meeting in September, at the Rockefeller campus of Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (Lyon 8th arrondissement): introductions, discussion of our backgrounds and areas of expertise, and thoughts on how to structure the network.
Enjoy the summer, and courage to those still working!
Guillaume Marcy, William Jarassier and Maxime Lepetit