Lipari School on BioInformatics and Computational Biology

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
  Stanford University, USA
  
  

Speakers

• Andrea Califano
  Leveraging models of cell regulation and GWAS data in integrative network-based association studies [abstract]
  Columbia University, USA
  
  
• Maricel G. Kann
  Computational Analysis of Human Variants for Precision Medicine [abstract]
  University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
  
  
• Stephen Quake
  Is the Genome Useful in Medicine? [abstract]
  Stanford University, USA
  
  

Guest speakers

• Gene Myers
  The Resurrection of de novo DNA sequencingh [abstract]
  Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany
  
  
• Concettina Guerra
  Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
  
  

Tutorials

• Giosuè Lo Bosco
  Computational models for Epigenomic Analyis [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)