[Bioclusters] School on COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR DATA ANALYSIS IN ONCOLOGY BIOINFORMATICS

[Francesco Masulli]

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 Application deadline:  March 20,  2010

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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                             International Course on 
                        
        COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR DATA ANALYSIS 
                        IN ONCOLOGY BIOINFORMATICS
                        
                Vietri sul Mare, Salerno (Italy) - May 24-29, 2010 
                School Website: http://ciob10.disi.unige.it/ 


    Joint course of the  International School on Neural Nets "E.R. Caianiello" 
             and of the Italian Network for Oncology Bioinformatics

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PURPOSE OF THE COURSE
The Twentieth century is often referred as the Century of Biology, as 
evidenced by the extraordinary development of this scientific area who 
concluded that century with the great success of the Human Genome Project and 
the subsequent complete sequencing of human DNA. 
Currently we are at the beginning of the so-called Post-Genomic Era, 
characterized on one hand by the availability of a huge amount of 
Bioinformatics data (often in the public domain), and on the other hand by the 
need for new and efficient mathematical methods and algorithms capable of 
distill the information contained in the data. As a matter of fact, the 
emphasis of research in Bioinformatics is shifting from the development of 
efficient data storing and handling methods, to the one of methods able to 
extract useful information from data. 
Computational Intelligence methodologies (that is, neural networks, 
evolutionary algorithms and fuzzy logic), partly inspired by natural systems, 
are a family of powerful methods for data analysis, able to transform the 
available heterogeneous data into biological knowledge. In recent years, these 
algorithms have been successfully applied in almost all areas of 
Bioinformatics to the solution of complex problems concerning signal analysis, 
classification, clustering, feature selection, and data mining and 
visualization.

The course covers the applications of Computational Intelligence methods  to 
the analysis of Bioinformatics data, with particular focus on applications in 
oncology.
It is addressed to PhD students and researchers in Bioinformatics, Computer 
Science, Mathematics and Engineering, and includes:
- theoretical lectures introducing the main aspects of Bioinformatics and 
Computational Intelligence methodologies;
- lectures aimed to analyze some significant case studies of data analysis in 
oncology bioinformatics;
- practical classes showing some relevant applications of Computational 
Intelligence methods to Bioinformatics data.


LIST OF LECTURERS

* Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
* Michele Ceccarelli, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy
* Raffaele Giancarlo, University of Palermo, Italy
* Antonio Giordano, University of Siena, Italy and Director Sbarro Institute 
for Cancer research & Molecular Medicine, Philadelphia PA, USA
* Paulo Lisboa, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
* Francesco Masulli, University of Genoa, Italy & Temple University, PA, USA
* Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
* Alfredo Petrosino, University Parthenope, Naples, Italy
* Stefano Rovetta, University of Genoa, Italy
* Giuseppe Russo, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
* Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy
* Andrea Tettamanzi,University of Milan, Italy
* Giorgio Valentini, University of Milan, Italy
 
THE COURSE IS JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY
International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS)
Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture (EMFCSC)
Italian Network for Oncology Bioinformatics (RNBIO)

THE COURSE IS SPONSORED BY
GNCS, Gruppo Nazionale per il Calcolo Scientifico
INNS, International Neural Network Society S.I.G. on Bioinformatics
SIREN, Italian Neural Networks Society
DISI - University of Genoa, Italy
University of Salerno, Italy


IMPORTANT DATES:
 Application deadline:                            March 20,  2010
 Notification of acceptance:                   March 25,  2010
 Hotel reservation deadline:                   April  10,  2010
 Registration fee payment deadline:       April 15,  2010
 School                                                 May 24-29,  2010

The application form is  available at 
http://ciob10.disi.unige.it/application.html

The course is open to all motivated students and research scientists, of
any nationality.

Applicants with few experience should include a recommendation letter of
their supervisor.

Places are limited to a maximum of 60 participants in addition to the 
lecturers. These will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. 


REGISTRATION FEE (taxes included) 
Master and PhD Students:               350,00 EURO
Academic Participants (govt/univ) : 450,00 EURO
Industrial Participants:                     600,00 EURO

The registration fee includes tuition only. Info on accommodation are 
available at http://ciob10.disi.unige.it/application.html

Some scholarships are available for students who are otherwise unable to 
participate at the school. Payment details will be notified with acceptance of 
applications.


FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION 
please visit the website http://ciob10.disi.unige.it