We invite participants enthusiastic about science, new technologies, biology, big data analysis, and those curious to learn new things. The School will introduce participants to the latest advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) and most commonly used bioinformatics tools and methods to analyse transcriptomics data. Hands-on sessions will give participants the opportunity to reinforce the analysis concepts they learned and work on practical examples, focusing on RNA-seq data analysis. The participants will also have a chance to get advice related to their own research questions during the last day’s Q&A session.

During this School you will:

• Learn the basics of next-generation sequencing (NGS)
• Understand the basics of NGS analysis, data formats, data repositories and genome browsers
• Compare different gene expression technologies (RNA-Seq vs Microarray)
• Use web-based Galaxy platform for RNA-Seq data analysis
• Perform downstream analyses (clustering, classification, and other machine learning approaches) on differentially expressed genes

When: October 25 – 29, 2021

Where: Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MedILS), Split, Croatia

Target group: 

• Young researchers (Master students, PhD students, postdocs), but experienced researchers are also welcome!
• The School is intended for participants with no or limited prior experience in computational biology/bioinformatics.

Eligibility: Participants must submit a motivational statement describing their current research interests and how they think they would benefit from this School.

Requirements:

• Participants should have a good understanding of molecular biology concepts.
• Participants should be proficient in English.
• Participants are required to bring their own laptops.
• No prior computational experience is required.

Organizers:

• Maja Kuzman, PhD (Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
• Andrea Gelemanović, PhD (MedILS, Split, Croatia)

Lecturers:

• Prof. Damjana Rozman, PhD (Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• Prof. Kristian Vlahoviček, PhD (Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
• Assist. Prof. Rosa Karlić, PhD (Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
• Maja Kuzman, PhD (Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
• Andrea Gelemanović, PhD (MedILS, Split, Croatia)
• Cosimo Cristella, PhD student (Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Dunja Glavaš, PhD student (Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia)