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Computational Genomics and Personalized Medicine
Italy - Isole Eolie - Lipari

Hosted by: Lipari School on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Venue: Grand Hotel Arciduca, Via G. Franza, Lipari, Italy
Dates: Jul 12, 2014 through Jul 19, 2014

Early Registration Deadline: 2014-04-30
 
Description
 
Aim and scope:
Computational Genomics and personalized medicine is the most challenging research area in the modern era. Our main and special guest lectures will address the scope focusing on algorithms, computational models and biomedical results on this field. From the enclosed bibliography it appears that 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 in Chemistry, 2013
Stanford University, USA

Speakers

Andrea Califano
Columbia University, USA

Jonathan A. Eisen
Phylogenetic and phylogenomic approaches to studying the human microbiome
Stanford University, USA

Stephen Quake
Is the Genome Useful in Medicine?
Stanford University, USA

Guest speaker

Carlo Maria Croce
Professor and Chair of Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics
microRNAs in cancer: small molecules with a huge impact
Ohio State University, USA

Napoleone Ferrara
Lasker Award 2010- Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences 2013
University of California, San Diego, USA

Gene Myers
Director & Tschira Chair of Systems Biology
The Resurrection of de novo DNA sequencing
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany

Tutorials

Giosuè Lo Bosco
Computational models for Epigenomic Analyis
University of Palermo, Italy
 
Additional Information
 
Event URL: http://lipari.cs.unict.it/LipariSchool/Bio/
ISCB Member Discount: None
Contact Person: Lipari School Organization ([javascript protected email address])

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