Joint EMBL-EBI-Wellcome Trust Course: In silico Systems Biology

23-27 April 2012

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

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Programme

Systems biology can now be considered an established and fundamental field in life sciences. It has facilitated the move from the identification of molecular ‘parts lists’ for living organisms towards synthesising information from different ‘omics’-based approaches to generate and test new hypotheses about how biological systems work. This joint EMBL-EBI-Wellcome Trust course will combine lectures and led discussions to identify the key challenges, opportunities and bottlenecks, with practical sessions on network analysis and network-based modelling.

Target audience

The course is aimed at advanced PhD students, post-doctoral and more senior researchers who are using or planning to use systems-based approaches to understanding biomedical problems.

Please note:Previous experience in computational and/or systems biology approaches is required to attend this course.

Topics

• Overview of the field of Systems Biology: past, present and future.
• Network Analysis
• Qualitative Modelling: modelling and simulation of interesting networks and pathways, as well as analysis of dynamical systems.
• Quantitative Modelling, in particular discrete modelling and stochastic simulations.
• Network and Pathway Enrichment
• Importance of semantics in systems biology: how to annotate models, and how to use those annotations to understand, merge and reason on models.
• Programmatic approaches (e.g. libSBML)

Participants will be encouraged to bring their own data for one to one sessions. However, specific size limits and formats will be specified in order to ensure data is usable in the available time.
Participants will also be requested to provide a poster for the poster session.

Scientific Organising Committee

Nicolas Le Novere (EMBL-EBI, UK)
Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EMBL-EBI, UK)
Vicky Schneider (EMBL-EBI, UK)

Course trainers to include:

Nicolas Le Novere (EMBL-EBI, UK)
Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EMBL-EBI, UK)
Thomas Schlitt (Kings College London, UK)
Pablo Porras (EMBL-EBI, UK)
Javier De Las Rivas (Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics Group,CSIC/USAL, Salamanca, Spain)
Laurence Calzone (Institut Curie, France)
Sven Sahle (Bioinformatics and Computational Biochemistry, HITS, Germany)
Joerg Stelling (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Vijilashkimi Chelliah (EMBL-EBI, UK)
Sarah Keating (EMBL-EBI, UK)
Nick Juty (EMBL-EBI, UK)
Aidan MacNamara (EMBL-EBI, UK)
Martijn van Iersel (EMBL-EBI, UK)
Ines Thiele (University of Iceland, Iceland)

How to apply

Prerequisites
The course is aimed at advanced PhD students and post-doctoral researchers who are using or planning to use a systems-based approach to understanding biomedical problems.

Please note:Previous experience in computational and/or systems biology approaches is required to attend this course.

Cost
The course tuition fees are subsidised by the Wellcome Trust for scientists based anywhere in the world. This is a residential course, without exception, and there is a fee of £500 towards accommodation and food for the duration of the course.

Bursaries
Limited bursaries are available for non-commercial applicants (50 per cent of fee) and are subject to open competition.
Bursary application information, plus terms and conditions

Applications
Applicants will be required to complete an application form containing a 300-word outline of the relevance of the course to their research. Please note that documentation supporting their application will be required from the applicant's supervisor/head of department.

To submit an application, please either:

Applications can be accepted by post or email. Sponsors' supporting letters must be returned, signed, by fax or post under separate cover. Incomplete applications will be rejected.

Applications and letters of support should be sent to:

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UK

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