Bioinformatics & Systems Modelling Workshop


Practical workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Modelling - November 21st to 25th 2011 
Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon – Portugal.
More info: rrvincent_at_fc.ul.pt (Renata Vincent).

Course aim:

The technological advances of the last decade have allowed for the easy generation of massive amounts of data on the components, interactions and organization of biological systems, heralding a new era for Systems Biology. This course aims to give graduate and post-graduate students with a background in biological sciences, a hands-on perspective on how to obtain, integrate and analyze complex data sets from multiple experimental sources using interdisciplinary tools and discuss the challenges that still have to be met in the future.

Topics include basic and intermediate concepts on databases and data-mining, network analysis, systems modelling and prediction, with an emphasis on gene expression, protein interaction and signalling.

Target audience:

MSc graduates, PhD students and junior post-doctoral fellows in biochemical/biological/biomedical sciences wishing to expand their knowledge on bioinformatics, modelling and network analysis for systems biology.

Faculty:

Amaral A, Univ. of Lisbon; Chaouiya C, Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Portugal; Clarke L, Univ. of Lisbon; Couto F, Univ. of Lisbon; Gama-Carvalho M, Univ. of Lisbon; Heriché J-K, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany; Linding R, Technical Univ. of Denmark; Orchard S, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK; Pinto F, Univ. of Lisbon; Reither G, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany; Rustici G, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK; Voit E, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA;.

Course info, fees and registration:

This course is an elective within the Advanced Training Course Program for 1st year PhD students in Biochemistry of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry (Bologna 3rd cycle) and is part of a workshop series within the post-graduate programme in Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Epithelium in Health and Disease
(more information at:  http://www.dqb.fc.ul.pt).

The course is open to national and international students on a first come, first serve basis, to a maximum of 20 participants. Credits for external (Bologna) PhD given upon request.
Registration fee: 200€ (350€ for participants attending 2 workshops - see attached posters).

Registration deadline: October 25th.