From 29-30 August 2022 the SYSCID team hosted the international symposium “Multi-omics of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases. From molecular signatures to novel clinical diagnostics” in Kiel, Germany.
Understanding the actionable subphenotypes of...
“The field of personalised medicine has to evolve in a manner that it really goes to the clinic,” says Philip Rosenstiel, Project Coordinator of SYSCID.
As the project is wrapping up its activities this month, we have asked some of our team members...
The SYSCID Consortium is pleased to announce the International Symposium titled “Multi-omics of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases” taking place from 29 to 30 August 2022 in Kiel, Germany.
The programme will include sessions which present novel...
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, the SYCID partners met again in person for the project’s last Annual Meeting in Kiel on 09 and 10 May 2022. The last in-person consortium meeting took place in April 2019. All the more, the SYSCID...
Time flies and it is hard to believe that SYSCID enters its final project year. All partners welcomed the recent extension of six months enabling them to continue their productive cooperation within the project until September 2022.
It is...
In view of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic causing severe disruptions and travel restrictions around the world, the SYSCID team in collaboration with the IHEC 2020 Organising Committee has decided to postpone the SYSCID Symposium &...
Given the current conditions of restricted travel and physical interactions, the SYSCID consortium conducted its annual meeting in full virtual mode on 21st April 2020 instead of meeting up in Geneva.
After a warm welcome by coordinator Philip...
The 7th International Symposium “Inflammation Medicine – From Bench to Bedside” of the Cluster of Excellence “Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation” will take place on February 17th-18th in Hamburg. The symposium will bring together a broad...
SYSCID beneficiary University of Cambridge announced the publication of a paper “Analysis of the B cell receptor repertoire in six immune-mediated diseases” in the journal Nature (October 2019). The research, led by Prof Ken Smith and Dr Paul Lyons...
Living up to its motto: sharing the future with digestive health, this year’s United European Gastroenterology Week - short UEG Week, united around 17,200 participants (onsite and online) coming from 122 countries. From all over...
A two-day international symposium “Symposium on Computational Integration of Multi-Omics data” was hosted on 17th and 18th June in Kiel. The symposium aimed at promoting interdisciplinary exchange between researchers working with different types of...
From April 3rd to 5th the SYSCID group travelled east to gather for this year’s annual meeting in Dubrovnik. Kicking off the meeting the partners split into two workshops dedicated to the curation of disease maps and methylation analysis. During the...
Aiming to promote the interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and expertise between researchers working with different types of ‘omics’ data the “Symposium on Computation Integration of Multi-Omics data” will take place from June 17th to 18th 2019...
In the section on societal challenges of its latest brochure “Horizon 2020 – Success Stories in Croatia”, the Croatian Agency for Mobility and EU programmes has included a feature on SYSCID. The national agency is responsible for the promotion and...
SYSCID is featured in the newest article series published on the European Commission’s Research and Innovation website. The article explores the projects personalized medicine approach to tackle chronic inflammatory diseases and includes short...
The two day workshop ‘Advances in single cell epigenomics’ was hosted from November 22-23 within the framework of Single Cell Omics Germany (SCOG) near Saarbrücken. The network brings together researchers using and developing single cell...
Assembling around 300 experts from 32 countries from November 20 to 21 in Berlin as well as 500 viewers online, the first ‘Personalised Medicine in Action’ conference of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) presented...
When the days get shorter and temperatures start to drop in central Europe, the global epigenomics community heads to the east where the Hong Kong Epigenomics Project has the pleasure to host the IHEC annual meeting from October 26-28 2018. The...
While many of the SYSCID partners are regular participants of the United European Gastroenterology (UEG) Week, this year we are very happy to invite the community to a special SYSCID symposium where we share and discuss the project’s aims and...
As in 2017, SYSCID was presented at this year’s European Researchers Night in Kiel. In her talk Neha Mishra from the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (UKSH) presented the advantages of personalized medicine in chronic inflammatory diseases...
By the time we all return from our well-deserved summer vacation, the 5th e:Med Meeting on systems medicine is just around the corner. Taking place from September 24-26, 2018 at the Urania in Berlin, the program comprises sessions on technologies,...
Anastasia Filia, researcher at BRFAA visited the Luxembourg team for a 3-day introduction to disease maps. Generating a disease map is a central part within SYSCID in order to develop comprehensive representations of disease mechanisms and build a...
The registration of the first conference 'Personalised Medicine in Action' of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) has opened in the beginning of June. Taking place in Berlin, Germany, on November 20-21 the meeting will...
The Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is the largest meeting for the gastro intestinal profession and took place from June 2-5, 2018 in Washington DC. Every year the conference attracts approximately 15,000 physicians, researchers and academics from...
With chronic inflammatory diseases (CIDs) on a rise they represent an increasing medical burden for society. Associated with a significant degree of long-term disability and increased mortality due to chronic involvement of other organs, such as the...
After last year’s snow in Kiel, this year the consortium made sure to move south to catch some sun and provide extra energy for the 1st SYSCID progress meeting.
In the two days, the partners presented the work progress in all 13 work packages and...
SYSCID partner VIB has started what seems like a sample collection marathon running a 6 month longitudinal study including 350 patients collecting saliva, stool, and blood samples. While most samples are collected at the beginning of each month, in...
In SYSCID the Saarland University (USAAR) is mainly responsible for the generation and analysis of epigenomic data. To this end, the team from Jörn Walter screens DNA methylation for several large clinical cohorts of chronic inflammatory disease...
Causes of inflammatory bowel diseases are not well understood and the most prominent forms Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are sometimes hard to distinguish. In front of this backdrop, the paper discusses the association between...
In an analysis of serum and biopsy samples from overall more than 500 patients with IBD, SYSCID researchers observed a negative correlation between serum levels of tryptophan and disease activity. Increased levels of tryptophan...
The VIB team removed a big elephant in the microbiome room. With their new method, a combination of 16S rDNA sequencing and flow cytometry, microbial data can be evaluated using the actual numbers instead of only relative data. Using this...
Living up to its motto: advancing science – linking people, this year’s United European Gastroenterology Week - short UEG Week, united close to 13,000 participants (onsite and online) coming from 118 countries. From all over the...
This year’s International Human Epigenome Consortium´s (IHEC) annual conference will take place from October 12-14 in Berlin and is hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Organized by the German DEEP initiative, the...
After the first Researchers' Night in Kiel in 2016, you can once again take a look behind the scenes of science. On September 29th 2017 interested visitors will be able to meet researchers from the region, get an insight into their work and learn...
SYSCID partners have published their first concept paper on the role of resilience mechanisms of the gut microbiome in Nature Reviews Microbiology (available open access after 6 month). In this paper we discuss the concepts and mechanisms of...
From June 19th to 24th, 2017 Gordan Lauc (Genos), Vlatka Zoldoš (University of Zagreb) and Tim Spector (King's College London) from the SYSCID consortium were invited as speakers to the 10th ISABS Conference on Forensic and Anthropologic Genetics...
As we announced in June, Vibeke Andersen from SYSCID partner SDU joined the first of five ICPerMed workshops held last week in Milan and took home a good first impression. As an expert in the field, Vibeke joined the working panel on “new tools and...
To give an insight into the SYSCID work performed by the partners, this small lab series will tour from one partner site to another, giving a glimpse of the tasks carried out at the moment. Our first stop is the Eurice office in Saarbrücken...
Establishing new connections, SYSCID partner Vibeke Andersen from the University of Southern Denmark is invited to participate in the first International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) research workshop on innovative concepts on...
Following the proverb “April showers bring May flowers” the SYSCID consortium held a productive first project meeting , which despite a mixture of wind, rain, sun and even snow (!) allows for a highly optimistic outlook towards the first year of...
Partners of the new H2020 research project SYSCID are recruiting 13 researchers (m/f) from the fields of medicine, bioinformatics and genetics/genomics. With positions located in different labs across Europe, they provide a stimulating collaborative...
Two SYSCID project partners, coordinator Philip Rosenstiel and Andre Franke from the University of Kiel, are among the eight renown researchers to be granted a “Schleswig-Holstein-Excellence-Chair“ (SH Chair) awarded by the Cluster of Excellence...
Only one month after the official project start, SYSCID´s application has unanimously been approved by the members of the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC). Project coordinator Philip Rosenstiel (CAU) will join and partner Jörn Walter...