We are very proud to announce the PhD school Introduction to Pangenomics.
Graph based data structures have been pointed out to have disruptive benefits over traditional sequence based structures when representing pan-genomes, sufficiently large, evolutionarily coherent collections of genomes. This idea has its immediate justification in the laws of genetics: evolutionarily closely related genomes vary only in relatively little amounts of letters, while sharing the majority of their sequence content. The fundamental task in computational biology of capturing genetic variations largely benefit from graph-based pangenome representations: they summarize redundancies without discarding individual differences and graphs lend themselves to data structures and algorithms for pangenome analysis.
This school is an opportunity for interacting with the computational pangenomics community of two European Research Networks, ALPACA and PANGAIA. The school provides a forum for being exposed to novel approaches on how to push the shift from sequence to graph-based representations of genomes.
The expected audience consists of PhD students and young researchers that are interested in the new field of computational pangenomics and that are eager to learn from world-renowned scientists.
This school will start on Monday July 4th and end on Friday July 8th.
Lecturers
- Jasmijn Baaijens (Assistant Professor at TU Delft, the Netherlands)
- Christina Boucher (Associate Professor at Univ. Florida, USA)
- Rayan Chikhi (Group Leader at Institut Pasteur, France)
- Evan Eichler (Professor of Genome Sciences at Univ. of Washington, USA)
- Mareike Fischer (Associate Professor at Univ. Greifswald, Germany)
- Shilpa Garg (Assistant Professor at Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Zamin Iqbal (Group Leader at EMBL)
- Veli Mäkinen (Professor at Univ. Helsinki, Finland)
- Alex Schoenhuth (Univ. Bielefeld, Germany)
- Jouni Sirén (Assistant Research Scientist at Univ. California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, USA)
More information at https://pang.lakecomoschool.org/
Slides
All the slides of the talks are available in the following Drive folder
Recordings
Playlist of the recorded talks
School Directors
- Paola Bonizzoni (University of Milan-Bicocca)
- Gianluca Della Vedova (University of Milan-Bicocca)
- Alex Schoenhuth (Univ. Bielefeld, Germany)
Organizers
- Paola Bonizzoni (University of Milan-Bicocca)
- Simone Ciccolella (University of Milan-Bicocca)
- Luca Denti (University of Milan-Bicocca)
- Gianluca Della Vedova (University of Milan-Bicocca)
- Raffaella Rizzi (University of Milan-Bicocca)