July 17 – July 24, 2016
Lipari Island, Italy

Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing and innovative tools for analyzing metagenomic data are causing a fast evolution of Computational Microbiology and Microbiome-Based Medicine. Topics such as Metatranscriptomics, Bacteria Tracking, Genome Editing, Immune System Analysis, Microbiome Analysis, Reverse Vaccinology are rising intriguing and complex questions. Our main and special guest lectures will address the scope focusing on algorithms, models, biomedical and biotechnological techniques and their clinical applications. From the enclosed bibliography, it appears that the selected themes have received much attention in the scholarly literature ranging from Nature and Science to Bioinformatics Journals.

Two kinds of participants are welcome. Students: Participants who are expected to do afternoon courseworks and take a final exam (The grades will be given following the ECTS grading scale). The course will involve a total of 24 hours of teaching. According to our university rules passing the final exam gives right to an equivalent of 6 ECTS credits in any Ph.D. program. Auditors: participants who are not interested in taking the final exam.

For more information, visit http://lipari.cs.unict.it/LipariSchool/Bio/