Programme 2017

ELIXIR-IIB training-related events

1. Workshop on Statistical Literacy and Metacognition
   ELIXIR All Hands satellite workshop - Roma, IT, 23rd March 2017
   Instructor: Rochelle E. Tractenberg (Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington D.C., USA)


2. EMBO Practical Course on Population Genomics: background and tools
   Napoli, IT, 18-26 May 2017
   Organisers: Vincenza Colonna, Chiara Batini, Allegra Via


3. 2nd Regional Technical Workshop - Italy
   National Funding: build awareness on policy perspectives.
   The second InRoad Regional Workshop was held on the 27 and 28 November 2017 and took place at the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy in Rome. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss policy aspects linking Research Infrastructure roadmapping with national funding as well as with other funding instruments. The aim was to build awareness across the different types of stakeholders such as RI managers, funders and policy-makers from different countries. Roma, IT, 27-28 Nov 2017
   Participant: Loredana Le Pera

ELIXIR-IIB workshops and training courses 2017

1. Workshop on Computational approaches to the study of protein interactions and rational drug design
   University of Padova, IT, 10-13 Apr 2017
   Local organisers: Lisanna Paladin, Marco Carraro
   ELIXIR-IIB organisers: Allegra Via


2. Workshop + Summer School in Advanced Computational Metagenomics
   Bari, IT, 19-23 Jun 2017
   ELIXIR-IIB organisers: Domenica D’Elia, Allegra Via, Loredana Le Pera


3. Training Course on Galaxy for Bioinformatics tool developers
   Cagliari, IT, 03-05 Jul 2017 (immediately before BITS)
   Local organisers: Mauro Cuccuru
   Instructors: Rossano Atzeni, Mauro Cuccuru, Marco Tangaro, Paolo Uva
   ELIXIR-IIB organisers: Allegra Via, Loredana Le Pera


4. Training course on RNA-Seq data analysis
   University of Milano, IT, 18-20 Jul 2017
   Local organisers: Giulio Pavesi, Federico Zambelli
   Instructors: Giulio Pavesi, Fabrizio Ferrè, Federico Zambelli, Matteo Chiara
   ELIXIR-IIB organisers: Allegra Via, Federico Zambelli, Loredana Le Pera


5. Training course on Machine Learning for Biologists
   Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, IT, 4-7 Sep 2017
   Local organisers: Alessandro Cestaro
   Instructors: Giuseppe Jurman, Marco Chierici, ...
   ELIXIR-IIB organisers: Vincenza Colonna, Loredana Le Pera


6. Training course on Python for Life Scientists
   Sapienza University of Rome, IT, 11-15 Sep 2017
   Local organisers: Veronica Morea
   Instructors: Allegra Via, Alberto Calderone
   ELIXIR-IIB organisers: Allegra Via, Loredana Le Pera


7. Training course on Best practices for RNA-Seq data analysis
   University of Salerno, IT, 27-29 Sep 2017
   Local organisers: Anna Marabotti, Roberto Tagliaferri, Alessandro Weisz
   Instructors: Fabrizio Ferre’, Loredana Le Pera, Giorgio Giurato
   ELIXIR-IIB organisers: Anna Marabotti, Allegra Via, Loredana Le Pera


8. ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train the Trainer (TtT) course
   University of Salerno, IT, 27-29 Sep 2017
   Local organisers: Anna Marabotti, Roberto Tagliaferri
   Instructors: Allegra Via, Pedro Fernandes (Gulbenkian Institute de Ciencia, PT)
   ELIXIR-IIB organisers: Anna Marabotti, Allegra Via, Loredana Le Pera


9. Elixir-IIB/NETTAB Tutorial on
   Biological Networks: data analysis, visualization and medical application
   ICAR-CNR, Palermo, IT, 18-19 Oct 2017
   Local organisers: Luana Licata
   Instructors: Luana Licata, Alberto Calderone, Inna Kuperstein (Curie Institut, Paris)
   ELIXIR-IIB organisers: Luana Licata, Allegra Via, Loredana Le Pera


10. Curation workshop on molecular and causal interactions
    National Research Council, Roma, IT, 5-7 Dec 2017
    Local organiser: Luana Licata
    ELIXIR-IIB organisers: Luana Licata, Allegra Via