Lipari School on Computational Life Sciences

Aim and scope:
Life sciences have seen an increase of big multimodal datasets that can provide answers to several bio-medical questions. However, their size and complexity make classic approaches not suited due to several limitations. Recently, Artificial Intelligence methodologies have been applied to automatically detect important features in big datasets enabling a deeper study of tumor pathogenesis and evolution, gene interactions, disease trajectories in large populations, and precision medicine. Our main and special lecturers 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.

Speakers

• Pierre Baldi
  Neural Networks and Deep Learning in Bio-Medicine
  UC Irvine, USA
• Euan Ashley
  Big Data, Network Analysis and Precision Medicine
  Stanford, USA
• Eytan Ruppin
  Computational Analysis of Gene Interactions
  NIH/NCI Bethesda, USA
• Doron Betel
  Single cell analysis of Tumor Microenvironment
  Weill Cornell Medical College, USA

Special Seminars

• Søren Brunak
  Machine-learning-based Analysis of Disease Trajectories
  Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Carlo Croce
  Non-coding RNAs in Cancer
  Ohio State University, USA
• Napoleone Ferrara
  Angiogenesis in Cancer
  University of California, San Diego, USA
• Alberto Mantovani
  Immunology and Immunotherapies
  Humanitas University, Italy
• Philip Tsichlis
  Gene-centric Cancer Biology
  Ohio State University, USA
• Costantino Pitsalis
  Autoimmune Diseases
  Queen Mary University of London, UK

Schedule

Schedule available soon

The official language is English.

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Travel and accomodation

Participants will be arranged in comfortable hotels at very special rates. The conference room (located at Hotel Giardino sul Mare, Via Maddalena, Lipari) 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).

Registration

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. 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 fees is 500 €. The fee covers the course material, bus+hydrofoil Catania airport-Lipari-Catania airport, social events and coffee breaks. Late registration is 600 €.
Early registration applications can be submitted from January 1st, 2020 up to April 30th, 2021. Late registrations will be accepted up to June 21st, 2021. Admission notification will start on January 31st, 2020, according to registration time. Applicants must include a short curriculum vitae or an updated link to an official website.  In case of cancellation after fees payments, a 25% penalty will be applied. In case of credit card payment, processing fees cannot be reimbursed. Payment must be received as soon as possible, and in any case no later than July 10th, 2021.

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