The 22nd edition of the CSAMA Biological Data Science Summer School will take place from Sunday, May 24th to Friday, May 29th, 2026, in Bressanone (BZ), Italy, at the University of Padova site (Casa della Gioventù).
CSAMA is a one-week intensive summer school dedicated to advanced statistical and computational analysis of modern molecular biological and biomedical data, including single-cell and spatial omics. The program combines lectures on theoretical foundations with practical hands-on sessions in R / Bioconductor, as well as informal discussion sessions.
Topics include:
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Introduction to R and Bioconductor
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Statistical foundations (visualization, regression, PCA and dimensionality reduction, hypothesis testing and multiple testing correction)
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Supervised and unsupervised classification, machine learning
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RNA-seq analysis (including single-cell data)
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Spatial omics data analysis
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Experimental design
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Reproducible research
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R package development
Registration is now open.
All information and the full program are available at:
https://csama2026.
For any additional details, please feel free to contact the CSAMA Organization Team at:
csama@stat.unipd.it
