SSMBio 2012
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN METHODS IN BIOINFORMATICS
Tarragona, Spain
August 27-31, 2012

Organized by:
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssmbio2012/

AIM:
SSMBio 2012 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures at different levels on bioinformatics. The students choose their preferred courses according to their interests and background. Instructors are top names in their respective fields. The School intends to help students initiate and foster their research career.
The previous event in this series was WSMBio 2012: http://grammars.grlmc.com/wsmbio2012/

ADDRESSED TO:
Graduate (and advanced undergraduate) students from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science, Biology and Medicine. Other students (for instance, from Engineering or Mathematics) are welcome too.
The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field.
There is no overlap in the class schedule.

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:
- Rita Casadio (U Bologna), Human Protein Variants: Structural and Functional Annotation [advanced, 8 hours]
- David Gilbert (Brunel U, London), Multiscale Modelling for Systems Biology [intermediate/advanced, 6 hours]
- Minoru Kanehisa (Kyoto U), Translational Bioinformatics: From Genomes to Diseases and Drugs [introductory/intermediate, 4 hours]
- Bin Ma (U Waterloo), Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis for Proteomics [introductory/intermediate, 6 hours]
- Luay Nakhleh (Rice U), Gene Tree Reconciliations: Incomplete Lineage Sorting, Duplication/Loss, and Reticulation [introductory/intermediate, 4 hours]
- Gajendra P.S. Raghava (Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh), Bioinformatics Approach for Designing Therapeutic Peptides, particularly Subunit Vaccines [intermediate/advanced, 8 hours]
- Joachim Selbig (University of Potsdam & Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology), Integrative 'Omics' Data and Network Analysis [intermediate/advanced, 6 hours]
- Wing-Kin Sung (National U Singapore), Extracting Information from Next Generation Sequencing Data [introductory/intermediate, 6 hours]
- Michael Zhang (U Texas Dallas), From Computational -Omics to Systems Biology [intermediate, 6 hours]

REGISTRATION:
It has to be done on line at
http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssmbio2012/Registration.php

FEES:
They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student takes. The rule is:
1 hour =
- 10 euros (for payments until June 2, 2012),
- 15 euros (for payments after June 2, 2012).

IMPORTANT DATES:
Early registration deadline: June 2, 2012

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat