INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL OF FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS

Baia Samuele Conference Centre, Scicli-Sicily, Italy  July 5th-19th 2008

http://www.functional-genomics.it/school    school [at] functional-genomics [dot] it


LIST OF SPEAKERS

Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Laureate, Italy

Enrico Alessi, STMicroelectronics, Italy

Giorgio Ascoli, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason
University, USA

Salvatore Baglio, University of Catania, Italy

Andrea Ballabio, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Italy

Lucia Bianchi, Lawyer, Italy

Pietro Calissano, European Brain Research Institute, CNR, Italy and
Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, CNR, Italy

Sebastiano Cavallaro, Institute of Neurological Sciences, CNR, Italy

Femke de Snoo, Agendia, The Netherlands

Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa, Italy

C. Forbes Dewey, Jr. MIT, USA

Filippo Drago, University of Catania, Italy

Gerald Fisher, Wyeth, USA

Andrew Koo, MIT, USA

Carsten Lederer, Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Italy

Pietro Liò, University of Cambridge, UK

Bud Mishra, New York University, USA

Ben Oostra, Erasmus University, The Netherlands

Corrado Priami, Microsoft Research - University of Trento COSBI, Italy

John Quackenbush, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA

Claudio Schneider, University of Udine, Italy

Shiladitya Sengupta, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of
Health Sciences and Technology, USA

Magdalena Skipper, Nature, UK

Elisabetta Tendi, Wyeth, Italy

Massimo Tifi, Abel, Italy


SCHOOL VENUE

The School will be hosted by Hotel Village Baia Samuele, Scicli, (RG),
Sicily:        http://www.baiasamuele.it/
Scicli  is one the Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto in the
South-Eastern Sicily. The Val di Noto area is included in the UNESCO
World Heritage List              http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1024/documents/

The eight towns in south-eastern Sicily: Caltagirone, Militello Val di
Catania,  Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli, were
all rebuilt after 1693 on or beside towns existing at the time of the
earthquake which took place in that year.  They represent a
considerable collective undertaking, successfully carried out at a
high level of architectural and artistic achievement. Keeping within
the late Baroque style of the day, they also depict distinctive
innovations in town planning and urban building.


REGISTRATION & DEADLINES

The  school fees are the following:
        One-Week Early Registration: euros 600.        One-Week Late Registration: ?800.
        Both-Week Early Registration: euros 1100.        Both-Week Late Registration: ?1500.
The application should be done *before* March 31st 2008.
Early payment due: before March 31, 2008.
Late payment due after March 31, 2008

The fee will include, all Courses, Lecture Notes, Coffee Breaks, Bus
service from Catania Airport to School Venue and vice-versa, WiFi
Internet Connection, Social Dinner, Social Tour.

Accepted students may submit a poster and/or a seminar to present
their recent research activities.


School Director:  Sebastiano Cavallaro, CNR, Italy

Scientific Committee:

Sebastiano Cavallaro, CNR, Italy.

Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy.

Enrico Rizzarelli, University of Catania, Italy