Postgraduate Course on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Organizers

Gil Castro and Paula Ludovico
Escola de Ciencias da Saude, Braga, Portugal

Jorge Carneiro www
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal

Lecturers

Jorg Becker www
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal

Jorge Carneiro www
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal

Anton J Enright www
Computational and Functional Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK

Jose Fernando Mendes www
Departamento de Fisica, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Pascal Kahlem www
European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK

Burkhard Morgenstern www
Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Gottingen, Germany

Jose Pereira-Leal www
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal

Armindo Salvador www
Molecular Systems Biology Group, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Claudio Soares www
Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Oeiras, Portugal.

Eric Westhof www
IBMC/CNRS. Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Strasbourg, France

Programme

Wednesday May 2nd, 2007

09h00-09h40 Jorge Carneiro. A brief history of bioinformatics and systems biology
9h40-11h10 Burkhard Morgenstern. Computational strategies for gene finding
11h30-13h00 Claudio Soares. Protein structure prediction

14h30-16h00 Eric Westhof. RNA structure and function
16h30-18h00 Anton J Enright. Computational Prediction of miRNA targets

Thursday May 3rd, 2007

09h00-10h30 Jose Fernando Mendes. General properties of networks
11h00-12h30 Jose Pereira Leal. Modularity in biomolecular networks

14h00-15h30 Jorg Becker. A primer on microarray technology
16h00-18h00 Hands on microarray technology

Friday May 4th, 2007

09h00-10h30 Pascal Kahlem. ENFIN: Integrative systems biology
11h00-12h30 Armindo Salvador. Evolutionary design of prevalent biochemical circuits

14h00-15h30 TBA
16h00-17h00 Jorge Carneiro and Gil Castro. Final Discussion