International Systems Biology Course

Contents 1 International Systems Biology Course 1.1 Dates 1.2 Venue 1.3 Language 1.4 Laptops/Netbooks 1.5 Hours 1.6 Hotels 1.7 Target audience 1.8 Number of candidates to be selected 1.9 Application 1.10 Selection criteria 1.11 Selected students 1.12 Fees 1.13 Support for selected students 1.14 Lectures 1.15 Instructors 1.15.1 October 12th 1.15.2 October 13th 1.15.3 October 14th 1.15.4 October 15th 1.15.4.1 Morning 1.15.4.2 Afternoon 1.15.5 October 16th 1.16 VISA and vaccinations 1.17 Organized by 1.18 Supported by

International Systems Biology Course

Dates

12th - 16th October, 2009

Venue

All lectures will be presented at room A9 (first floor), Pavilhão Leonidas Deane (just behind the Evandro Chagas Hospital) Oswaldo Cruz Foundation ( website ) Av. Brasil, 4365 - Manguinhos, 21040-360 Rio de Janeiro-RJ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Language

All lectures and computer lab will be in English

Laptops/Netbooks

While we have the PCs and 100Mbps-based internet conectivity needed for the course, we encourage the selected students to bring their own laptops/netbooks with Wi-Fi then we can use a wireless teaching room for the course

Hours

30

Hotels

• Vermont Hotel : http://www.hotelvermont.com.br/en/
• Copacabana Mar Hotel : http://www.copacabanamar.com.br/
• Debret Hotel : http://www.debret.com/english/index.asp
• Real Palace Hotel : http://www.realpalacehotelrj.com.br/english/

Target audience

Graduate students and posdocs with interest in bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology fields

Number of candidates to be selected

25

Application

• A mini-CV (2 pages maximum) in English, plus a 1-page letter explaining why the candidate should be a student in the course and it will help/improve the candidate career should be sent to: posgbcs@ioc.fiocruz.br with the subject "ISBC 2009 application". The deadline for applications is : September 14th 2009.

Selection criteria

• Preference will be given to young researchers and advanced MSc and PhD students
• Background in biological or computer siences, or engineering
• Basic knowledge in bioinformatics and statistics
• A maximum of 25% (6) non-Brazilian candidates will be selected

Selected students

• Angelo Mondaini
• Aline M. A. Martins
• Antonio Mauro Rezende
• Aline Rossi da Silveira
• Anna Beatriz Robottom Ferreira
• Carlos Diego de Andrade Ferreira
• Daniel Rodrigues Loureiro
• Dhaval Patel
• Diogo Antonio Tschoeke
• Erica Fonseca
• Elisa Rennó Donnard Moreira
• Felipe da Veiga Leprevost
• Felipe Soares Figueiredo
• Franklin Souza da Silva
• Fábio Bernardo da Silva
• Gilberto Ferreira da Silva
• Juliano Toledo
• Leandro Mattos
• Marcelo Pontes Rodrigues
• Monete Rajão Gomes
• Márcia Mártyres Bezerra
• Renata Paiva
• Robel Getachew
• Talita Duarte Pagani
• Tatiana de Arruda Campos Brasil de Souza

Fees

There are no fees for this course

Support for selected students

Unfortunately we don't have the funding to provide financial support to selected students. All selected students will have to pay themselves for travel, hotel and meals.

Lectures

Check the lectures in our Systems Biology blog http://systemsbiology.biowebdb.org/?s=aula

Instructors

October 12th

• Bruce Aronow, CCHMC, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA (confirmed):

• Lecture: Applied Diseaseomics: systems biology-based integration, analysis, and extension of disease-centered knowledge
• Computer lab: exploring the phenome.. approach: find genes whose mutation or polymorphism is associated with a single specific or general set of phenotypes and use biological network analysis and gene expression data to sort out disease-associated cellular processes, pathways and regulatory mechanisms.

October 13th

• Morning

• Maria Luiza Machado Campos, DCC, UFRJ:

• Lecture: Infra-structure for the Integration of Resources for Systems Biology support

• Afternoon

• Computer lab: (Sérgio Serra, COPPE/UFRJ): Scientific Workflows

October 14th

• Christian M. Probst, National Institute for Science and Technology in Diagnosis for Health, Instituto Carlos Chagas, Fiocruz

• Morning

• Lecture: OMICS approaches for Chagas Disease

• Afternoon

• Computer Lab: Microarrays data analysis: clusterization and GO classification

October 15th

Morning

• Rita M. C. de Almeida, National Institute for Complex Systems, Instituto de Física, UFRGS

• Lecture: Towards a genome-wide transcriptogram: the Saccharomyces cerevisiae case

Afternoon

• Bruce Aronow

• Lecture: Colon cancer genetics, genomics, and microRNA profiling
• Computer lab: Network analysis based approach to inferring oncogenic disease mechanisms

October 16th

Morning

• Marcio Argollo de Menezes, Complex Systems Research Group, Physics Institute, Universidade Federal Fluminense
• Lecture: Systems approaches for metabolic networks

Afternoon

• Ferenc Jordan, The Microsoft Research - University of Trento, Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Italy (confirmed)

• Lecture: Indirect relationships in complex biological networks
• Computer lab:

VISA and vaccinations

Selected candidates and invited instructors may need a VISA to enter Brazil. Please double check this with the Brazilian embassy of your country, here is a start:

• How do I know if I need a visa?
• Tourist Visa Exemptions

Please also note yellow fever vaccination is compulsory to visit some states of Brazil and reccomended to others:

• Do I need any vaccination to enter Brazil?
• http://www.brazil.org.uk/tourism/visasvaccinations.html

Organized by

• Alberto M. R. Dávila (Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ)
• Claudio J. Struchiner (PROCC/Fiocruz)
• Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Computacional e Sistemas

Supported by

VPEIC / FIOCRUZ