Biological Sequence Analysis and High Throughput Technologies REGISTRATION OPEN
http://lipari.dmi.unict.it/LipariSchool/Bio/index.php Lipari, Italy, July 2 - July 9, 2011 Application deadline: May 01, 2011 Aim and scope: The dramatic rising of data being generated by high-throughput technologies, such as microarrays, ChIP-chip, ChIP-Seq data are opening a new universe of problems that will certainly provide great challenges in the coming years. The theme of the School: Biological Sequence Analysis and High Throughput Technologies will describe and highlight a few of techniques and methods for the data analysis in the era of the Personalized Genomics. The main lectures will focus on the following key topics: methods for high-throughput and parallel sequencing, data Integration and knowledge inference from high-throughput Genomic Experiments. Three special lectures will survey applications in the field of human diseases and cellular development. A series of tutorial will be also given, with the intent to complement the main lectures. These will provide snapshots of other areas that are perceived of relevance to the theme of the School. They range from introductory topics to sequence analysis to structural biology. As it is clear from the enclosed abstracts and bibliography, the selected themes have received much attention in the scholarly literature that ranges from Science, Nature, to BMC Bioinformatics, NAR and Bioinformatics. As a whole, the planned summer school will allow young researchers interested in bioinformatics and biomedicine to be exposed to cutting edge results in an area that is among the most exciting in Post-Genomic Biology. *Courses (three hours each) * Soren Brunak Data Integration In the Era of Personalized Genomics Center for Biological Sequence Analysis; Technical University of Danmark * Roderic Guigo Transcriptome Genetics Using Massively Parallel Sequencing Center de Regulalcio Genomica and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona * Bud Mishra Genomics Redux: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Altruism, Cheap Talks, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids New York University * Gene Myers Building Atlases Using Genetics and Light Microscopy Janelia Farm Research Campus; Howard Hughes Medical Institute * Itzik Peer High Throughput Sequencing for Comprehensively Cataloging Variants Columbia University in the City of New York * Paola Sebastiani Bayesian Networks for Analysis of High Throughput Genomic Experiments Boston University Guest lectures * Carlo Croce Causes and Consequences of miRNA Disregulation in Cancer Human Cancer Genetics Program; Ohio State University * Charles Lawrence A New Gibbs Sampler for Predicting RNA Secondary Structure for Unaligned Sequences Brown University, Providence, USA * Roded Sharan A systems-level analysis of protein networks for disease elucidation Tel Aviv University Tutorials * Matteo Comin Phylogenetic methods for biological sequences University of Padova, Italy * Peter Minary Introduction to Modern Algorithms for Conformational Sampling and Optimization in Computational Structural Biology Stanford University * Michael Levitt Computational structural biology: birth and future Stanford University * Giosuè Lo Bosco Computational models for nucleosome positions identification University of Palermo, Italy Participants will be arranged in a comfortable hotel at very special rates. The conference room (in the same hotel) is air-conditioned and equipped with all conference materials. Special areas are reserved to students for the afternoon coursework and study. The island of Lipari can be easily reached from Milazzo, Palermo, Naples, Messina and Reggio Calabria by ferry or hydrofoil (50 minutes from Milazzo). Two kinds of participants are welcome. Students: Participants who are expected to do afternoon courseworks and take a final exam (The grades will be given following the ECTS grading scale). The course will involve a total of 24 hours of teaching. According to our university rules passing the final exam gives right to an equivalent of 6 ECTS credits in any Ph.D. program. Auditors: participants who are not interested in taking the final exam. Registration fee is 450 Euros. The fee covers the course material, bus+hydrofoil Catania airport-Lipari-Catania airport, social event. Late registration is 550 Euros. Deadline for application is May 1, 201. Applicants must include a short curriculum vitae and specify two professors whom letters of recommendation will be asked to, if deemed necessary. Applicants will be notified about admission by May 10, 2011. The official language is English. School Directors * Prof. Alfredo Ferro (University of Catania) * Prof. Raffaele Giancarlo (University of Palermo) * Prof. Concettina Guerra (University of Padova and Georgia Tech.) * Prof. Michael Levitt, (Stanford University) * Dr. Rosalba Giugno (co-director, University of Catania) * Dr. Alfredo Pulvirenti (co-director, University of Catania) People interested in receiving further information about the school can contact: Lipari School Organization Prof. Alfredo Ferro -- Susanna Caramello (Lipari School secretary) Universita' degli Studi di Catania - Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Citta' Universitaria - Viale A.Doria, 6 - 95125 Catania - ITALY Tel: +39 095 7383071 Fax: +39 095 7337032 / +39 095 330094 E-mail:[email protected] - [email protected] _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
