We are happy to announce the “PhD School on Modern Bioinformatics towards Pangenomics” to be held in Ischia, Italy, July 8 — July 14, 2025.

The school is for young researchers interested in broad topics of Bioinformatics, with a focus on Pangenomics and modern advances in sequencing and data analysis.

The topics of the school are:

• Introduction to Bioinformatics Services in Pangenomics and Cancer Genomics.
• Introduction to modern genome sequence technologies, data analysis and software tools in genome structural variations
• Structural variations in diseases, mapping copy number variation by genome sequencing
• Latest trend methods and experimental validation
• Research challenges

The confirmed speakers are:

• Vincenza Colonna University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, US
  • Integrating Genetic Ancestry, Environmental Exposure and Health Equity
• Erik Garrison University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, US
• Arun Isaac University College London, London, UK
  • Reproducible research
• Benedict Paten University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, US
  • Human Pangenome Alignments – working toward the second release of the human pangenome reference
• Pjotr Prins University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, US
  • Genetics in the age of pangenomics
• Tobias Rausch European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, DE
  • Introduction to cancer genomics and its caveats
  • Mutational processes and structural & copy-number variation analysis
  • The benefits of interrogating (cancer) genomes using long reads
  • SV analysis using short-reads
• Mauricio Soto Gomez University of Milano, Milano, IT

The last three days (July 12 to July 14) are dedicated to the hackathon “From one genome to many”.

More details on the events is available at the website of the event

The school is open to 20 participants, to guarantee fruitful interactions among participants.

To apply for participation, upload a 1-page CV to the registration site

https://app.formbricks.com/s/cm9l760pp6q6zw201zm8tjh7g

The deadline for applications is now May 16 (12.00 AM CEST), 2025.

For further questions please contact gianluca.dellavedova@unimib.it and simone.ciccolella@unimib.it

Best regards,

School directors:

• Simone Ciccolella (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
• Gianluca Della Vedova (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)