BCI 2007 - call for participation

[Luca Bortolussi]

[apologize for multiple copies]


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FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIOLOGY,
COMPUTATION AND INFORMATION (BCI 2007)


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July 2-6, 2007, Trieste, Italy


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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


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The fourth edition of the School of Biology, Computation
and Information (BCI) aims at bringing together teachers
and Students of Biology, Mathematics and Computer Science.
The main goal of the School is to give an updated overview
of interdisciplinary techniques and problems cross-bordering
the three fields.
During the school, on Wednesday 4th July, a one-day workshop
will be held. It will be titled
"Patterns in strings: from biology to linguistics and back".
Excellence lecturers will be invited.
The participants to the School may submit an abstract leading
to a twenty-minutes presentation during the workshop.
Abstracts will be sent to and selected/judged by the
Scientific Committee.


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COURSES

Main topic: Pattern discovery in genomics


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Area: Mathematics
Lecturer: Prof. Nello Cristianini,
University of Bristol, UK

Prof. Nello Cristianini works in machine learning and
data mining, with application to genomics, computational
linguistics and artificial intelligence systems. During his
lessons, he will talk about pattern analysis, the evolution
of gene families and the statistics used within linguistics
and sequence analysis algorithms.


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Area: Computer Science
Lecturer: Prof. Michael Brudno,
Toronto University, Canada

Dr. Michael Brudno's research field consists in the
development of efficient algorithms for the analysis of
biological data. Brudno will present a little introduction
on algorithms and their development in analyzing genomic
sequences; afterwards, he will focus on the most used local
and global alignment methods (BLAST, M-LAGAN, CHAOS) and on
phylogenetic analysis.


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Area: Biology
Lecturer: Dr. Elia Stupka
CBM (Consortium for Biomolecular Medicine),
Area Science Park, Trieste, Italy

Dr. Elia Stupka, whose research fields are genomics and
bioinformatics, will discuss subjects pertaining to
comparative genomics (non-coding conserved elements),
functional genomics (gene expression analysis, etc.)
and genome annotation methods.


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WORKSHOP

"Patterns in strings: from biology to linguistics and back"


Strings express a pervasive notion. The workshop aims at
exchanging ideas which may be useful for building bridges
between different and seemingly unrelated fields, e.g.
computational biology and computational linguistics.


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Invited speakers

Giuseppe Longobardi - University of Trieste (Italy)
"Toward a history and geography of human syntax"

Alberto Pallavicini - University of Trieste (Italy)
"Macromolecular networks:topology, modularity and dynamics"

Sandor Pongor - ICGEB, Trieste (Italy)
"Concepts of similarity in molecular biology"

Marko Grobelnik - University of Ljubljana (Slovenija)


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REGISTRATION


Early registration deadline: 22 May 2007 (extended deadline).
Late registration deadline: 10 June 2007.

Number of participants: 35.

Acceptance of more participants will be evaluated by the
School organizers.

We can provide accommodation in Hotels located in the city
center for 35 participants at a discounted rate, please
visit the School website for booking details.
For persons accompanying the School participants, please,
contact the organizing committee.


Early registration fee: EUR 150.
Late registration fee: EUR 200.


The registration fee covers participation to all lectures
and to the workshop, course texts and general course
suppliance, coffee breaks, mid-day lunches, and transport
to the conference venue.


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LOCATION


This school will be held at CBM, company appointed for the
coordination of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Technology District
of Molecular Biomedicine. CBM operates around Area Science
Park in Basovizza, within a picturesque woody landscape
just a few miles from Trieste city centre.


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WEBSITE AND CONTACT


For all additional information, please visit the website:
http://bci2007.cbm.fvg.it

You can also contact the school organizers.


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SPONSORS


- CBM (Cluster in Biomedicine),
  Area Science Park, Trieste.
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
  University of Trieste.
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
  University of Udine.
- National Insitute of High Mathematics.
  National Group of Scientific Computation


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


- Andrea Sgarro, University of Trieste (school director)
- Alberto Policriti, University of Udine (school co-director)
- Elia Stupka, CBM, Trieste
- Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste
- Eugenio Omodeo, University of Trieste


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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE


- Michael Brudno, University of Toronto
- Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol
- Elia Stupka, CBM, Trieste
- Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste
- Agostino Dovier, University of Udine
- Francesco Fabris, University of Trieste
- Carla Piazza, University of Udine
- Alberto Policriti, University of Udine
- Andrea Sgarro, University of Trieste


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