We are pleased to announce the EMBO practical course on Bioinformatics and Genome Analyses. This 13-day course will run between 2 – 14 May 2016 at Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute (iBG-izmir), Dokuz Eylul University Health Campus, Balçova, Izmir, Turkey.

Course objectives

This EMBO practical course will cover different topics involved in genome studies and their corresponding bioinformatics methodological backgrounds. The main topics of the practical course will cover genome comparisons and NGS data analyses including Methods and tools to analyze Meta-genomic and RNA-seq data.

Topics will include:
1. Genome comparisons,
2. RNA-seq and Next Generation Sequencing (including algorithms, methods and sequence mapping tools, data analyses and applications),
3. Integration of genomic and genetic data in the context of Next Generation Sequencing and their applications in human diseases.
The EMBO Pracitcal Course programme will be centered on theoretical presentations followed by practical sessions where the same speaker will ensure theory and practice. Practical sessions in a Linux environment will involve Unix shell and perl scripting. Participants should be familiar with this environment.
This practical course is aimed at motivated PhD students and young researchers from academic institutions with a background in Mathematics, Statistics, Computing and/or Biology who are involved in Bioinformatics and Genome Analyses projects. The EMBO Practical Course is intense; therefore, active participation is expected from the students.

Speakers

• Gary Benson, Boston University, USA.
• Javier de Las Rivas, Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics, Salamanca, Spain.
• Sarah Djebali, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain.
• Claudio Donati, Department of Computational Biology Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige (TN), Italy.
• Bernard Dujon, Fredj Tekaia, Tru HuynhInstitut Pasteur Paris.
• Fatma Guerfali, Institut Pasteur Tunis.
• Martin Krzywinski, Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver, Canada.
• Christos Ouzounis, Center for Research andTechnology, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Stephan Pabinger, Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna, Austria.

Registration

Registration deadline is Saturday March 26th, 2016 midnight (Paris time). Twenty full time places are available for the course. Selection will be subject to an evaluation process. Selected participants will be notified by April 4, 2016.

Further details

The course is organised by Fredj Tekaia from Institut Pasteur Paris, France and Professor Mehmet Öztürk and Assistant Professor Can Küçük from Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute (iBG-izmir), Dokuz Eylul University.
For more detail and application link regarding the event, please click the following link:
http://events.embo.org/16-genome/