Today we launched the FORGENOM Summer School, with the title “Modern Bioinformatics towards Pangenomics,” in the beautiful setting of the Mediterranean island of Ischia, Italy.
The summer school will run from July 8 to July 12. Over 20 participants – mainly young researchers from Slovakia, Italy, Czechia, Poland, the USA, the UK, and Japan – will, over the course of the next 5 intensive days, broaden their knowledge and expertise in various areas of bioinformatics, particularly in pangenomics and modern approaches to sequencing and data analysis.
Specifically, they will have the opportunity to explore these exciting topics:
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 and entrepreneurship.
How to disseminate results to the scientific biomedical community.
We are looking forward to our distinguished speakers:
Benedict Paten University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, US
Erik Garrison University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, US
Mauricio Soto Gomez University of Milano, Milano, IT
Tobias Rausch European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, DE
Tomáš Szemes Geneton s.r.o./ Comenius University in Bratislava, SK
Vincenza Colonna University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, US
But that’s not all!
After the fully packed summer school, they won’t be leaving just yet. They will be taking part in the FORGENOM HACKATHON!
Entitled From One Genome to Many, it will engage the participants for 3 days, from July 12 to 14, with practical exercises focused on working with data in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics. Specifically, they will tackle:
Analysis of Structural Variations
Free and Open software in Bioinformatics
Reproducibility of results
Thanks to the instructors for preparing the hands-on training:
Andrea Guarracino University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, US
Erik Garrison University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, US
Marcel Kucharík Geneton s.r.o./ Comenius Universivity in Bratislava, Slovakia
Mauricio Soto Gomez University of Milano, Milano, IT
We would like to express our gratitude to the FORGENOM project partners from the University of Milano – Bicocca: Simone Ciccolella, Gianluca Della Vedova, and Paola Bonizzoni, for the excellent preparation of both events. We are looking forward to the coming days and to everything you have prepared for us!
“We are excited to welcome researchers to Ischia for this unique Summer School and Hackathon. Our goal is to build a vibrant community around modern bioinformatics and pangenomics, inspire collaboration across disciplines, and empower participants with the skills and tools needed to advance genomic research. From exploring cutting-edge sequencing technologies to hands-on hackathon challenges, this event will foster the exchange of ideas and the creation of new solutions that can benefit science and society alike” said assoc. prof. Tomáš Szemes, the main coordinator of the FORGENOM II project.
