Scope:

MSc in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from FCUL

Subject:

"Research in bioinformatics"

Dates:

May 30 - June 3

Place:

 IGC - Democritus auditorium (above the canteen)

 

Schedule 

monday 30

10:00 - 

11:00 - Introduction - Jose Pereira-Leal

14:00 - 

15:00 - 

16:00 - Discrete modelling of gene regulatory networks - Claudine Chaouiya

17:00 - Verifying qualitative models through model-checking - Pedro Monteiro

tueday 31

10:00 - Cancer and aging - Joana Cardoso

11:00 - Heterogeneity of breast cancer - Sofia Braga

15:00 - Protein networks in autism - Catarina Correia

16:00 - 

wednesday 1

10:00 - Adaptation of bacteria to novel environments - Isabel Gordo

11:00 - Evolution of microtubule-derived organelles - Marc Gouw

15:00 - The genetics of structured populations: social groups, fragmented landscapes and the Neolithic transition - Barbara Parreira & Rita Rasteiro

16:00 - Biophysics and genetics of morphogenesis - Filipa Alves

thursday 2

10:00 - Recombination signal sequences -evolution and disease - Marie Bonnet

11:00 - RNA editing - Alekos Athanasiadis

15:00 - JC1

16:00 - JC2

friday 3

10:00 - Collective Computation in Complex Networks - Manuel Marques Pita

11:00 - Cell Differentiation - Jorge Carneiro

15:00 - JC3

16:00 - JC4

 

Journal Clubs:

1 - Campillos et al. Drug target identification using side-effect similarity. Science (2008) vol. 321 (5886) pp. 263-6

2 - Ashley et al. Clinical assessment incorporating a personal genome. Lancet (2010) vol. 375 (9725) pp. 1525-35

3. Arumugam M, et al : Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome. Nature 2011, 473:174-180. 

4. Mendonça et al.  Loss of genetic redundancy in reductive genome evolution. PLoS Comp Biol 2011, 7:e1001082.