[BiO BB] BOLOGNA WINTER SCHOOL 2007: Bioinformatics for S&S Biology

gigi gigi at biocomp.unibo.it
Wed Nov 29 07:11:18 EST 2006


Dear collegue, we are pleased to announce the:

Bologna Winter School 2007
BIOINFORMATICS FOR SYSTEMS AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
New approaches and algorithms to cope with the future of Biological Science

Bologna (Italy) February 18-23, 2007


http://www.biocomp.unibo.it/~school2007/

APPLICATION should be submitted to: school2007 @ biocomp . unibo . it



Biologists for decades have adopted a reductionist approach to
investigate the secret of life. In recent years however, thanks to the
genome sequencing efforts, new/old disciplines gained prominence with
the specific aim of studying at a global scale biological processes in
terms of their molecular constituents and their functional interactions.
This is the case of Systems Biology, not new in terms of name and
definition that presently takes advantage of new technological
developments to investigate biological processes at cell, organism or
communicative level. Based on high-throughput quantitative measurements,
Systems Biology adopts computational modelling, mathematical, control
and optimization theories with the purpose of reconstructing cellular
systems and their functioning. Even more recently, Synthetic Biology
seeks to engineer complex artificial biological systems starting from
molecular components to investigate natural biological phenomena for a
variety of applications to come. Can Bioinformatics gap the bridge from
molecular to multi-level and integrated modelling and be the link among
Systems and Synthetic Biology?

The Bologna School will focus on the present state of art of
Bioinformatics, from data analysis to their integration and assessment
in relation to problems of Systems and Synthetic Biology. The main
topics that will be explained and debated are:

• Bionformatics in relation to System and Synthetic Biology

• Genomic networks and their modelling: the state of the art

• Progress in protein structure prediction and protein engineering

• Computational methods for Systems and Synthetic Biology

• Role of Synthetic Biology in the development of new powerful advanced
technologies


The school will cover different sessions:

The frontiers of Structural and Functional Genomics

Data integration, knowledge mining and visualization of systems biology data

High throughput experiments and Data Bases

Modelling the data: towards a reconstruction of biological systems.

Synthetic Biology: putting engineering into biology


Each day four lectures and/or demos will be given to the students.

An open forum for discussion on hot topics will be held during the round
table discussion:
" Bionanotechnologies and Nanobiotechnologies for Systems and Synthetic
Biology ".

Students may sign up for short oral presentations during the student's
corner.


TEACHERS:
Patrick Aloy
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, ES

Luca Benini
University of Bologna, IT

Alvis Brazma
European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK

Søren Brunak
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DK

Rita Casadio
University of Bologna, IT

Silvio Cavalcanti
University of Bologna, IT

Giovanni De Micheli
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, CH

Diego Di Bernardo
Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Napoli, IT

Joaquin Dopazo
Centro de Investigación "Principe Felipe", Valencia, ES

Roderic Guigò
University "Pompeu Fabra" Barcelona, ES

David T. Jones
University College, London, UK

Arthur Lesk
PennState University, University Park, USA

Michal Linial
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, IL

Marc Marti-Renom
Centro de Investigación "Principe Felipe", Valencia, ES

Sven Panke
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, CH

Juan Poyatos
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Madrid, ES

Reinhard Schneider
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, DE

Luis Serrano
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, DE

Anna Tramontano
University "La Sapienza", Roma, IT

Alfonso Valencia
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Madrid, ES


PROGRAM
MONDAY 19
  The frontiers of Structural and Functional Genomics/

TUESDAY 20
  Data integration, knowledge mining and visualization of systems
biology data


WEDNESDAY 21
  High throughput experiments and Data Bases

  Student's corner

THURSDAY 22

  Modelling the data: towards a reconstruction of biological systems

  Round Table Discussion:
  Bionanotechnologies and Nanobiotechnologies for Systems and Synthetic
Biology

FRIDAY 23
  Synthetic Biology: putting engineering into biology





organised by
University of Bologna
Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
CIRB INTERDEPARTMENTAL CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY
CIG INTERDEPARTMENTAL CENTER "Luigi Galvani" FOR BIOINFORMATICS,
BIOPHYSICS and BIOCOMPLEXITY
DEIS DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS,COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS

BioSapiens Network of Excellence (EU project, VI FP)

BioDec Srl
National Institute for Biostructures and Biosystems (INBB)

FIRB for Bioinformatics (MIUR)


Organisation: AIRBBC
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca in Biofisica e Biologia Computazionale







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