Lipari School on BioInformatics and Computational Biology

Aim and scope:
Computational Network Biology is among the most representative research areas in bioinformatics. Lectures will address the scope focusing on algorithms to analyze networks for disease understanding and therapy. A series of tutorials will illustrate basic preliminary concepts and provide additional snapshots of dynamic networks and network alignments. Finally our special guest speaker will talk about the well known BLAST algorithm and a visionary talk about future bioinformatics directions. 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.

Speakers

• Dana Peer
  A network approach to understanding cancer [abstract]
  Columbia University, USA
  
  
• Teresa M. Przytycka
  Network Biology Approach to Complex Diseases [abstract]
  National Institutes of Health, USA
  
  
• Roded Sharan
  Elucidating the topology and logic of cellular pathways [abstract]
  Tel Aviv University, Israel
  
  

Guest speakers

• Gene Myers
  1) A Blast from the Past [abstract]
  2) Why Networks Are Not Enough [abstract]
  Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany
  
  

Tutorials

• Alberto Apostolico
  Recurrent Events in Dynamic Networks [abstract]
  Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA - IASI-CNR, Italy
  
  
• Iuliana Ionita-Laza
  Statistical Challenges in Genetic Association Studies [abstract]
  Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, USA
  
  
• Simona E. Rombo
  Basic graph and network alignment algorithms [abstract]
  University of Palermo, Italy
  
  

School Directors

• Prof. Alfredo Ferro (University of Catania)
• Prof. Raffaele Giancarlo (University of Palermo)
• Prof. Concettina Guerra (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Prof. Michael Levitt, (Stanford University)
  
  
• Dr. Rosalba Giugno (co-director, University of Catania)
• Dr. Alfredo Pulvirenti (co-director, University of Catania)