RT18: Some personal insights into the Data workflow of a study
From its design to communication of the results to a broad audience
Dr Simon Dellicour
F.R.S.-FNRS Research Associate, head of the Spatial Epidemiology Lab, lecturer at the ULB, and Invited Professor at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven).
Simon Dellicour is a bioengineer graduated at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in 2009. He subsequently did a PhD under the supervision of Patrick Mardulyn (ULB, 2009-13), a first post-doc in the team of Oliver Pybus at the University of Oxford (2013-15), a second post-doc in the group of Philippe Lemey at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven, 2015-18), and then joined the Spatial Epidemiology Lab in October 2018 for his third post-doc in the team of Marius Gilbert, ULB. In 2020, he became an FNRS Research Associate, a permanent academic position awarded by the Belgian Fonds National pour la Recherche Scientifique. Simon is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Rega Institute, Evolutionary and Computational Virology lab) and currently the director of the Spatial Epidemiology Lab.
Simon has broad interests in molecular and spatial epidemiology, as well as population, landscape and conservation genetics. His main research projects focus on methodological developments and applications in landscape phylogeography, a field at the interface between spatial and molecular epidemiology and that aims to relate phylogenetic informed movements to external/environmental factors (https://spell.ulb.be/subject/landscape-phylogeography/). Specifically, Simon and his team develop novel methodologies to investigate the impact of environmental factors on the dispersal history and dynamic of viral lineages (diffusion velocity, dispersal position, and dispersal frequency), as well as to assess potential intervention strategies in the context of viral epidemics. Over the last 10 years, these methodological developments used by the scientific community and they have themselves applied those methods to study several viruses in their environmental context such as, for instance, the Ebola virus during the 2014-16 western Africa outbreak, rabies virus in different regions of the world, West Nile virus in North America, Lassa virus in Africa, and Powassan virus in North America. Simon and his team work on a broad range of viruses, ranging from human to animal and plant viruses.
Abstract
Over the last years, we converged to certain habits in terms of study management. Although we do not consider those habits as gold-standard, they however correspond to practices that allow us to efficiently carry out several studies in parallel within our research team at the Spatial Epidemiology Lab (SpELL, https://spell.ulb.be/). Although it is thus important to insist on the fact that they only represent one example of research study management, the objective of this seminar will be to present these practices that could be of potential interest for some of the PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. The seminar will be organised to follow the workflow steps of a particular study such as its design and the definition of the research question or hypothesis to test, the implementation of analytical pipeline, the writing process, the submission process and publication strategy, and the communication around the study once it is published.
Event information
When? On the 27th of October, at 12.15 until 2pm
Where? La plaine N.O.5.7, meaning "La Plaine" Campus, "N.O." Building, 5th floor, "Solvay" room
Limited number of seats, register before 20/10.
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