Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis

Bioinformatic and Comparative Genome Analysis course

HKU-Pasteur Research Centre - Hong Kong

August 17 - August 29, 2009

Organizers/Contact:
Roberto Bruzzone,  HKU-Pasteur Research Centre - Hong Kong.
Si Lok,  Genome Research Center - The University of Hong Kong.
Tin Wee Tan, National University of Singapore - Singapore.
Ueng-Cheng Yang, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei - Taiwan.
Fredj Tekaia, Institut Pasteur Paris - France.

With the financial support from:
EMBO - Institut Pasteur Paris.

Week 1 : Background: Material and Methods

Week 2 : Comparative Genomics (Methods - Applications) - What did we learn from genomes studies and perspectives

Week 1 (August 16 - August 23 ): Background: Material and Methods

Day	Date	8H30-10H15	10H45-12H30	14H15-16H	16H30-18H15
Sunday	August 16			Installation in Robert Black Hotel	Welcome Roberto Bruzzone - Si Lok Course introduction Fredj Tekaia Students self-introduction
Monday	August 17	UNIX Quang tru Huynh Institut Pasteur Paris	UNIX Quang tru Huynh Institut Pasteur Paris	UNIX Quang tru Huynh Institut Pasteur Paris	UNIX/perl Fredj Tekaia Institut Pasteur Paris
Tuesday	August 18	UNIX/perl Fredj Tekaia Institut Pasteur Paris	UNIX/perl Fredj Tekaia Institut Pasteur Paris	Genome, protein and model orgnanisms databases Anne Estreicher Swiss Institut of Bioinformatics, Geneva - Switzerland	Open Access Bibliographic Resources Anne Estreicher Swiss Institut of Bioinformatics, Geneva - Switzerland
Wednesday	August 19	Main algorithms with applications in Bioinformatics Gregory Nuel Universite Paris-Descartes - France	Main algorithms with applications in Bioinformatics (Practical) Gregory Nuel Universite Paris-Descartes - France	Search for motifs Gregory Nuel Universite Paris-Descartes - France	Search for motifs (Practical) Gregory Nuel Universite Paris-Descartes - France
Thursday	August 20	Multiple Sequence Alignment Anne Friedrich IGBMC - Strasbourg - France	Multiple Sequence Alignment (Practical) Anne Friedrich IGBMC - Strasbourg - France	Molecular evolution Gavin Smith HKU - Hong Kong	Molecular evolution (Practical) Gavin Smith HKU - Hong Kong
Friday	August 21	Phylogenetic Reconstruction Anne Friedrich IGBMC - Strasbourg - France	Phylogenetic Reconstruction (Practical) Anne Friedrich IGBMC - Strasbourg - France	Introduction to Phylogenomics Simonetta Gribaldo Institut Pasteur Paris	Phylogenomics (Practical) Simonetta Gribaldo Institut Pasteur Paris
Saturday	August 22	Large scale genome comparisons Fredj Tekaia Institut Pasteur Paris	Large scale genome comparisons (Practical) Fredj Tekaia Institut Pasteur Paris	Workshop: BioSlax: a comprehensive system for Bioinformatics workstation client, server resource or teaching platform Tin Wee Tan National University of Singapore - Singapore	Free time

Sunday

August 23

Social and cultural activities: One Day Tour of Hong Kong: see the program (pdf scan)

Week 2 (August 24 - August 26 ): Comparative Genomics (Methods - Applications)

Day	Date	8H30-10H15	10H45-12H30	14H15-16H	16H30-18H15
Monday	August 24	Large scale genomes comparisons Fredj Tekaia Institut Pasteur Paris	Genomes comparisons (Practical) Fredj Tekaia Institut Pasteur Paris	Genomes comparisons (practical) Fredj Tekaia Institut Pasteur Paris	Genomes comparisons (Practical) Fredj Tekaia Institut Pasteur Paris
Tuesday	August 25	Orthologs - Paralogs Prediction and Classification Toni Gabaldon CRG-Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barceloca - Spain	Orthologs - Paralogs Prediction and Classification (Practical) Toni Gabaldon CRG-Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barceloca - Spain	Orthology Prediction for whole mammalian genomes Leo Goodstadt University of Oxford - UK	Orthology Prediction for whole mammalian genomes (Practical) Leo Goodstadt University of Oxford - UK
Wednesday	August 26	Whole Genomes alignment - Synteny maps Inna Dubchak Genomics Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA - USA	Whole Genomes alignment - Synteny maps at VISTA (Practical) Inna Dubchak Genomics Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA - USA	Bioinformatics and Systems Biology approaches for disease study Ueng-Cheng Yang National Yang-Ming University - Taipei - Taiwan	Bioinformatics and Systems Biology approaches for disease study (Practical) Ueng-Cheng Yang National Yang-Ming University - Taipei - Taiwan

Week 2 (August 27 - August 29 ): Lecturers on What did we learn from genomes studies and perspectives
(Access is free for wider interested research community)

Day	Date	8H30-10H15	10H45-12H30	14H15-16H	16H30-18H15
Thursday	August 27	Fungal Transportosomics Andre Goffeau Universite Catholique Louvain - Belgique	The future of Bioinformatics and Genomics John Quackenbush Harvard School of Public Health - Boston - USA	Yeast Evolution and Comparative Genomics Bernard Dujon Institut Pasteur Paris	Evolution of Vertebrate Genomes Hugues Roest Crollius Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris - France
Friday	August 28	Ongoing DNA transfer from the mitochondrial to the nuclear genome Miria Ricchetti Institut Pasteur Paris	Genome Rearrangements in Evolution and Cancer Guillaume Bourque Genome Institut of Singapore - Singapore	Genes, Polymorphisms and Human Genetic diseases Sonia Abdelhak Institut Pasteur Tunis - Tunisia	Disease gene mapping in the post-genomic age Pak Sham HKU - Hong Kong
Saturday	August 29	Bioinformatics Growth in the Asian Region: 20 years of development Tin Wee Tan National University of Singapore - Singapore	Course evaluation EMBO questionnaire (Organizers and Students)	Free time	Free time

Sunday

August 30

Hotel check out

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