Aim and scope: Computational Genomics and personalized medicine is the most challenging research area in the modern era.
Our main and special guest lectures will address the scope focusing on algorithms, computational models and biomedical results on this field. From the enclosed bibliography it appears that the selected themes have received much attention in the scholarly literature ranging from Nature and Science to Bioinformatics Journals.

Opening Lecture

• Michael Levitt
  Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2013
  Stanford University, USA 
   

Speakers

• Andrea Califano
  Leveraging models of cell regulation and GWAS data in integrative network-based association studies 
  Columbia University, USA 
   
• Jonathan A. Eisen
  Phylogenetic and phylogenomic approaches to studying the human microbiome [abstract] 
  Stanford University, USA 
   
• Stephen Quake
  Is the Genome Useful in Medicine? [abstract]
  Stanford University, USA 
   

Guest speaker

• Carlo Maria Croce
  Professor and Chair of Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics
  microRNAs in cancer: small molecules with a huge impact [abstract]
  Ohio State University, USA 
   
• Napoleone Ferrara
  Lasker Award 2010- Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences 2013
  Regulation of angiogenesis by the tumor microenvironment [abstract]
  University of California, San Diego, USA 
   
• Gene Myers
  Director & Tschira Chair of Systems Biology
  The Resurrection of de novo DNA sequencing [abstract]
  Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany 
   

Tutorials

• Giosuè Lo Bosco 
  Computational models for Epigenomic Analyis [abstract]
  University of Palermo, Italy 

Participants will be arranged in a comfortable hotel at very special rates. The conference room (in the same hotel) is air-conditioned and equipped with all conference materials. Special areas are reserved to students for the afternoon coursework and study. The island of Lipari can be easily reached from Milazzo, Palermo, Naples, Messina and Reggio Calabria by ferry or hydrofoil (50 minutes from Milazzo).

Two kinds of participants are welcome. Students: Participants who are expected to do afternoon courseworks and take a final exam (The grades will be given following the ECTS grading scale). The course will involve a total of 24 hours of teaching. According to our university rules passing the final exam gives right to an equivalent of 6 ECTS credits in any Ph.D. program. Auditors: participants who are not interested in taking the final exam. Registration fee is 470 Euros. The fee covers the course material, bus+hydrofoil Catania airport-Lipari-Catania airport, social event. Late registration is 570 Euros.

Deadline for application is April 30, 2014 (admission notification will start on March 1st according to registration time). Applicants must include a short curriculum vitae and specify two professors whom letters of recommendation will be asked to, if deemed necessary.

Applicants will be notified about admission by May 15, 2014.

The official language is English.

School Directors

• Prof. Alfredo Ferro (University of Catania)
• Prof. Raffaele Giancarlo (University of Palermo)
• Prof. Concettina Guerra (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Prof. Michael Levitt, (Stanford University)
   
• Dr. Rosalba Giugno (co-director, University of Catania)
• Dr. Alfredo Pulvirenti (co-director, University of Catania)

People interested in receiving further information about the school can contact: 

Lipari School Organization
Prof. Alfredo Ferro -- Lipari School secretary
Universita' degli Studi di Catania - Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Citta' Universitaria - Viale A.Doria, 6 - 95125 Catania - ITALY
Tel: +39 095 7383071 
Fax: +39 095 7337032 / +39 095 330094
E-mail:school@dmi.unict.it