7th Bologna Winter School in Applied Bioinformatics: The Test Case of the Human Genome (Bologna, 13-17 February 2006)
The Bologna Winter Schools are unique international forums where to debate the state of the art of complex problems at the forehand of Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Modern Biology.
Introduction
The 7th Edition focuses on the applications of Bioinformatics to the Human Genome Analysis. Fundamental problems, that are still matter of debate, will be addressed such as the annotation, the expression and the regulation of the Human Genome, the relationship between expression and diseases, the variability between populations and the applications to molecular medicine.
The growing interest in Biodiversity, Aging, Forensic Genomics and early diagnosis of genetic maladies indicates how Bioinformatics is essential not only for the management and the analysis of the data but also for identifying typical markers of different populations and individuals, with the common goal of highlighting the relationship between genotype and phenotype. The school will be devoted to explore which ideas and tools out of Bioinformatics can effectively help in the analysis at large of the Human Genome and will cover different sessions:
How many genes?
Genome annotation
Transcription regulation
Genome variability
SNPs aging and diseases
Forensic genomics
A round table discussion and an industry corner will give to all the participants the opportunity to briefly present their work and to discuss different applications.
Programme
Monday 13th February
How many genes?
Arthur Lesk: Mining the human genome
Roderic Guigo: Hunting for genes in the DNA sequences
Genome annotation
David Jones: Automated genome annotation
Alfonso Valencia: Current systems for function annotation, limits and possibilities
Tuesday 14th February
Transcription regulation
Graziano Pesole:Alternatve splicing and post-trancriptional regulation of gene expression
Giovanni Perini: Regulating gene transcription: models and networks
Biosapiens corner
To be defined
Wednesday 15th February
SNPs, aging and diseases
Jaume Bertrandpetit: Measuring, using and interpreting the population stratification of linkage disequilibrium: a global view in humans
Peter Nuerberg: Resources and tools for disease gene identification
Claudio Franceschi: Aging and variability
Thursday 16th February
Genome variability
Guido Barbujani: Human variability for population and forensic studies
David Balding: The effects of population structure on genetic association studies
Round Table Discussion: Experimental Science: how far can we go?
Organisers: A. Tramontano, D.Jones
Participants: Students
Friday 17th February
Genome variability
Marion Nagy: The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) - highest sequence variability in the human genome
Forensic genomics
Lutz Roewer: Population databases at work in forensic, genealogical and historical genetics
Walther Parson: Bioinformatics meets forensics: Quality assessment for the mtDNA database EMPOP
Uta-Dorothee Immel: The Y-chromosome and surnames: the history of a long-lasting relation.
General information
School venue: Giorgio Prodi Hall.
Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2
Location and accommodation: Erasmus College and Bologna downtown hotels.
Official language: English
Maximum number of participants is limited to 40 students.
Credits: 5 Ects credits
Application procedure and fee
Requirements: a specific interest in Bioinformatics and its solutions to different problems
Application procedure: send a short C.V. to: school2006@biocomp.unibo.it
Deadline: January 10, 2006
The fee of euro 500,00 covers material, courses, lunches, coffee breaks and social dinner.
Studentships: 4 partial studentships provided by the University of Bologna. For applications send request to school 2006@biocomp.unibo.it
Organisation
Organising Committee
R.Casadio, Biocomputing Group
Organising Secretary
CIRB and AIRBBC
c/o Dept. of Biology, University of Bologna
via Irnerio 42 40126 Bologna - Italy
tel: (+39) 051 2094005 fax: (+39) 051 242576
e-mail: school2006@biocomp.unibo.it
http://www.unibo.it/Portale/Relazioni+Internazionali/Summer+School/summer/ScienzeBiologicheGeologicheAgrarie/Bioinformatics.htm
