SUNDAY 12      Arrival


MONDAY 13

  8.30-9.15     Registration (at "Giorgio Prodi Hall", Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2)
 9.15-9.30     Welcome Introduction: Maria Paola Landini (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine)
                                                                 Rita Casadio (School Organiser)
           

        How many genes?
9.30-11.00
Arthur Lesk Mining the human genome
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Roderic Guigo
 Hunting for genes in the DNA sequences

Lunch

        Genome annotation

15.00-16.30 David Jones Automated genome annotation
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.30 Alfonso Valencia
 Current systems for function annotation: limits and possibilities
                      

TUESDAY 14

        Transcription regulation

  9.30-11.00 Giovanni Perini
 Regulating gene transcription models and networks
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Graziano Pesole
 Alternative splicing and post-trancriptional regulation of gene expression

Lunch
              
        BioSapiens Corner
14.30-16.00 Chairs: Anna Tramontano, Alfonso Valencia

James Watson From genome to proteome and structure to function
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break


        Industry/Research Corner

16.30-18.30 Participants: Aldo Tagliabue (ALTA Srl/CHIRON SpA), Ivan Rossi (BioDec Srl),
Manuela Helmer-Citterich (University Roma-Tor Vergata)


WEDNESDAY 15

        SNPs, aging and diseases

  9.30-11.00 Jaume Bertranpetit
 Measuring, using and interpreting the population stratification of linkage disequilibrium: a global view in humans
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Peter Nürnberg
 Resources an tools for disease gene identification
13.00-13.45 Dominik Seelow
 Demo on: Resources an tools for disease gene identification

Lunch
15.00-16.30 Claudio Franceschi
 Aging and variability
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.00 Elena Maestrini
 Mapping susceptibility genes for complex disorders: the example of autism

THURSDAY 16

        Genome variability (1)

  9.30-11.00 Guido Barbujani
 Human variability for population and forensic studies
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 David Balding
 The effects of population structure on genetic association studies

Lunch

        Round Table Discussion:
        Applied Bioinformatics meets Experimental Science: how far can we go?

15.00-18.30 Organisers:
Anna Tramontano, David Jones
Students presentations and questions
16.30-17.00 Coffee break


20.30 Social Dinner Ristorante MARELUNA, via Saragozza 13


      

FRIDAY 17

        Genome variability (2)

  9.30-11.00 Marion Nagy
 The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) - highest sequence variability in the human genome
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
  

        Forensic genomics

11.30-13.00 Lutz Roewer
 Population databases at work in forensic, genealogical and historical genetics

Lunch
15.00-16.30 Walther Parson
 Bioinformatics meets forensic: quality assessment for the mtDNA database EMPOP
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.30 Uta-Dorothee Immel
 The Y-chromosome and surnames: the historyof a long-lasting relation