The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (CoSBi) organizes a course for PhD students, advanced master students, early stage postdocs and interested junior researchers on methods and recent results on different aspects of computational and systems biology. Students with both experimental and computational/mathematical background are encouraged to apply. Registered students will receive reading materials that will help them to follow the lectures of the course no matter what background they have. All lecture material will be made available to the students after the course.