Lipari School on Computational Life Sciences

Aim and scope:
Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing in connection to novel models for analyzing such data are causing a rapid evolution of drug science, giving rise to a new high-precision medicine. Topics such as Drug Delivery, Nanosphere Technology, Intelligent Drug Discovery, Drug Repositioning, Drug Resistance, Patient-specific biomarkers discovery are yielding intriguing and complex problems. Our main and special guest lectures will address such a scope focusing on algorithms, models, biomedical and biotechnological techniques together with clinical applications. From the enclosed bibliography, the selected themes have received much attention in the scholarly literature ranging from Nature and Science to Bioinformatics Journals.

Opening Lecture

• Michael Levitt (Nobel Prize 2013)
  The Future of Fundamental Basic Research
  School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA

Speakers

• Napoleone Ferrara
  Angiogenesis Regulation in Cancer and other Pathologies
  University of California, San Diego, USA
• Lars Juhl Jensen [Abstract Available]
  Networks of Drugs and Proteins
  University of Copenhaghen, DK
  Abstract
• Annamaria Lilienkampf
  Drug Delivery and Nanosphere Technology
  Edinburgh University,UK
• John P. Overington [Abstract Available]
  Intelligent Drug Discovery
  Benevolent.ai, UK
  Abstract

Special Guest Speakers

• Søren Brunak [Abstract Available]
  Disease trajectories, gene pleiotropy and protein multi-functionality
  Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  Abstract

Closing lecture

• Carlo M. Croce
  Cancer Treatment
  Ohio State University, USA

Tutorials

• Roberto Purrello [Abstract Available]
  Chemistry of Drug-Nucleic Acids interaction
  University of Catania, Italy
  Abstract
• Michele Purrello [Abstract Available]
  ncRNAs for Diagnosis and Therapy
  University of Catania, Italy
  Abstract
• Salvatore Alaimo
  Computational Techniques for Drug Interaction, Repositioning and Drug Resistance Biomarkers
  University of Catania, Italy
• Giovanni Micale
  Network-Based Drug Interaction Analysis
  University of Catania, Italy
• Stefania Stefani
  Testing and Resistance of Antibiotics in Real life
  University of Catania, Italy

Schedule

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Participants will be arranged in comfortable hotels at very special rates. The conference room (very close to the same hotels) 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 coursework 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 500 €. The fee covers the course material, bus+hydrofoil Catania airport-Lipari-Catania airport, social events and coffee breaks. Late registration is 600 €. 
Applications can be submitted from November 22nd, 2016 up to  May 31st, 2017. Late registrations will be accepted until July 3rd, 2017. Admission notification will start on January 28th, 2017, according to registration time. Applicants must include a short curriculum vitae.
The official language is English.