8th Bologna Winter School:

BIOINFORMATICS FOR SYSTEMS AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

Bologna (Italy, February 18-23, 2007)

Giorgio Prodi Hall, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2

 

    SUNDAY  18       

     18:00-19:30           Registration (ERASMUS College, via de' Chiari, 8)

 

    MONDAY 19

        8:15- 9:00           Registration   (“G.Prodi” Hall, piazza S.Giovanni in Monte, 2)

        9:00- 9:15           Welcome introduction

                                    Luigi Busetto  (Pro-Rector of the University of Bologna)

                                    Rita Casadio  (School chair)

 

The BioSapiens Session- The frontiers of Structural and Functional Genomics

      9:15-10:45            Roderic Guigó  The complexity of the transcriptional landscape of the human genome

    10:45-11:30            Coffee Break

    11:30-13:00            Arthur Lesk  Assignment of protein function

    13:00-15:00            Lunch (at “Caffe' della Corte”, Corte Isolani, 5B)

    15:00-16:30            Marc Marti-Renom  Protein structure comparative models for functional annotation

    16:30-17:00            Coffee Break

    17:00-18:30            Anna Tramontano  From genomes to proteins and back

 

    TUESDAY 20

Data integration, knowledge mining and visualization of Systems Biology data

      9:30-11:00            Patrick Aloy  Structural systems biology: modelling protein interactions and complexes

    11:00-11:30            Coffee Break

    11:30-13:00            David Jones  Machine learning approaches to protein structure and function prediction

    13:00-15:00            Lunch (at “Caffe' della Corte”, Corte Isolani, 5B)

    15:00-16:30            Reinhard Schneider  Data integration and visualization

    16:30-17:00           Coffee Break

    17:00-18:30           Michal Linial  The pro and con in automatic methods for classification proteins and

              their domains 

 

    WEDNESDAY 21

High throughput experiments and data bases

      9:30-11:00           Søren Brunak  Data integration and modeling of the eukaryotic cell cycle

    11:00-11:30           Coffee Break

    11:30-13:00           Diego Di Bernardo  Systems Biology approaches to genetic diseases and drug discovery

    13:00-15:00           Lunch (at “Caffe' della Corte”, Corte Isolani, 5B)

                                  

FIRB/BioSapiens Corner

     15:00-16:30           Chairs: Rita Casadio, David Jones  

                                   FIRB/BioSapiens Projects: Results

     16:30-17:00           Coffee Break

                       

School-Participants Corner

     17:00-18:30           Chairs: Michal Linial, David Jones                                

                                     

    THURDAY 22

 Modelling the data: towards a reconstruction of biological systems

       9:30-11:00           Juan Poyatos  Some golden rules to understand genetic circuits

     11:00-11:30           Coffee Break

     11:30-13:00           Diego Barrettino  Detecting response at the cellular level

     13:00-15:00           Lunch (at “Caffe' della Corte”, Corte Isolani, 5B)

                              

Round Table Discussion: 

Bionanotechnologies and Nanobiotechnologies for Systems and Synthetic Biology

 

    15:00-18:30            Chairs: Rita Casadio, Alfonso Valencia

                                   Participants: Luca Benini (University of Bologna), Silvio Cavalcanti (University of Bologna),

                                   Duccio Medini (Novartis Vaccines, Siena), Bruno Samoŕ (University of Bologna)

   

    16:30-17:00           Coffee Break

 

              21:00            Social Dinner (at “Mareluna” via Saragozza, 13)

 

    FRIDAY 23

Synthetic Biology: putting engineering into biology

      9:00-10:30           Alfonso Valencia  Bioinformatics methods for extracting information useful in

                    Systems/Synthetic Biology

    10:30-11:00           Coffee Break

    11:00-12:30           Sven Panke  Synthetic Biology and the production of fine chemicals

    12:30-14:30           Lunch (at “Caffe' della Corte”, Corte Isolani, 5B)

    14:30-16:00           Joaquin Dopazo  Functional interpretation of large-scale experiments under a Systems

                                 Biology perspective

    16:00-16:30           Coffee Break

    16:30-18:00           Jordi Villà  On parameter estimation and optimal experimental design in systems biology

 

 Data Warehouse

    18:00-19:00           Misha Kapushesky  From Repository to Warehouse: meta-analysis and mining of gene

                                                                       expression data in ArrayExpress