International Summer School

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL OF FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS
Baia Samuele Conference Centre, Scicli-Sicily, Italy July 5th-19th 2008

http://www.functional-genomics.it/school/
school@functional-genomics.it

THE SPEAKERS

Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Laureate, Italy
Enrico Alessi, STMicroelectronics, Italy
Giorgio Ascoli, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, USA
Salvatore Baglio, University of Catania, Italy
Andrea Ballabio, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Italy
Lucia Bianchi, Lawyer, Italy
Pietro Calissano, European Brain Research Institute, CNR, Italy and Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, CNR, Italy
Sebastiano Cavallaro, Institute of Neurological Sciences, CNR, Italy
Femke de Snoo, Agendia, The Netherlands
Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa, Italy
C. Forbes Dewey, Jr. MIT, USA
Filippo Drago, University of Catania, Italy
Gerald Fisher, Wyeth, USA
Andrew Koo, MIT, USA
Carsten Lederer, Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Italy
Pietro Liò, University of Cambridge, UK
Bud Mishra, New York University, USA
Ben Oostra, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Corrado Priami, Microsoft Research - University of Trento COSBI, Italy
John Quackenbush, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA
Claudio Schneider, University of Udine, Italy
Shiladitya Sengupta, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, USA
Magdalena Skipper, Nature, UK
Elisabetta Tendi, Wyeth, Italy
Massimo Tifi, Abel, Italy

SCHOOL VENUE

The School will be hosted by Hotel Village Baia Samuele, Scicli, (RG), Sicily: http://www.baiasamuele.it/
Scicli is one the Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto in the South-Eastern Sicily. The Val di Noto area is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1024/documents/
The eight towns in south-eastern Sicily: Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli, were all rebuilt after 1693 on or beside towns existing at the time of the earthquake which took place in that year. They represent a considerable collective undertaking, successfully carried out at a high level of architectural and artistic achievement. Keeping within the late Baroque style of the day, they also depict distinctive innovations in town planning and urban building.

REGISTRATION & DEADLINES

The school fees are the following:
One-Week Early Registration: 600 euro.
One-Week Late Registration: 800 euro.
Both-Week Early Registration: 1100 euro.
Both-Week Late Registration: 1500 euro.
The application should be done *before* March 31st 2008.
Early payment due: before March 31, 2008.
Late payment due after March 31, 2008

The fee will include, all Courses, Lecture Notes, Coffee Breaks, Bus service from Catania Airport to School Venue and vice-versa, WiFi Internet Connection, Social Dinner, Social Tour.

Accepted students may submit a poster and/or a seminar to present their recent research activities.

School Director: Sebastiano Cavallaro, CNR, Italy
Scientific Committee:
Sebastiano Cavallaro, CNR, Italy.
Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy.
Enrico Rizzarelli, University of Catania, Italy.
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Giuseppe Nicosia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Phone +39 095 738 30 30
University of Catania Fax +39 095 33 00 94
Viale A. Doria n. 6 Email nicosia@dmi.unict.it
95125 Catania, Italy http://www.dmi.unict.it/nicosia