2020
September 28th
October 2nd
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International course

Computational Systems Biology of Cancer

Promises of Artificial Intelligence - 3th edition REAL-TIME VIRTUAL

The diversity across tumors from different patients and even across cancer cells from the same patient makes the picture very complex. The idea of ‘personalized’ or ‘precision’ medicine has been suggested, aiming to find tailored treatment regimen for each patient according to the individual genetic background and tumor molecular profile. This attempt is achievable thanks to sufficient molecular characterization of cancers accumulated using high-throughput technologies and advanced imaging technologies. However, despite availability of cancer multi-scale data, they are not fully exploited to provide the clue on deregulated mechanisms that would guide better patients stratification and to specific treatment in cancer.

Registration site https://meetings.embo.org/event/20-cancer-ai

Please note that due to the current pandemic situation and strict regulations regarding face-to-face meetings, this will be a REAL-TIME VIRTUAL COURSE.

Course in English
4 ECTS
Registration deadline

Presentation

Objectives

The objective of the course is to promote better integration of computational approaches into biological and clinical labs and to clinics. We aim to help participants to improve interpretation and use of multi-scale data that nowadays are accumulated in any biological or medical lab. This year, the course will particularly focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) approaches in cancer research and in clinics. We will review current methods and tools for the analysis and interpretation of big data, along with concrete applications related to cancer. In particular, we will emphasize the role of AI/ML methods for understanding the heterogeneity of tumor and applications in personalized treatment schemes development.

 

We invited leading speakers from different fields in cancer systems biology, especially from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in cancer research and in clinics. The invited speakers will expose various approaches for omics, imaging, clinical data analysis and interpretation, combining signaling networks together with multi-scale data and associating it to clinical data. In addition, drug sensitivity prediction algorithms, biomarkers and cancer drivers identification; patient stratification approaches; application of mathematical modelling and image analysis in cancer with focus on AI/ML approaches will be demonstrated.

Registration site https://meetings.embo.org/event/20-cancer-ai

Please note that due to the current pandemic situation and strict regulations regarding face-to-face meetings, this will be a REAL-TIME VIRTUAL COURSE.

Discussion & Workshops

Article Presentation (MsC level participants)

Poster Presentation & Flash Talks (PhD & Postdoc level participants)

Personal Work

In addition to attendance of the online lectures, the participants are expected to take part in the following virtual events:

-Presentation of their own scientific project with a flash presentation and a poster (for PhD Students and Post-docs).

Pre-selected PhD and post-doc participants will be asked to:

- Present virtual poster sessions. Submission of posters in A0 size, pdf format.

- Present flash presentations sessions (3 minutes). Submission of slides in pdf format.

-Participation in the Journal Club to present and discuss milestone papers in the cancer systems biology field. Scientific papers within the main topics covered by the course will be sent to the accepted applicants for presentations during virtual journal club (for Master students).

Pre-selected Master students participants will be assigned seminal articles in the field. They will be asked to prepare, submit their presentations and present the assigned articles during virtual journal club sessions.

-Participation in the Career development workshop during the Thursday special virtual session (all participants).

 

ECTS Information

The course will be validated by 4 ECTS for Master and PhD students. The attendance of the virtual course will be monitored at the daily basis using online forms. The course certificates will be issues and sent to the participants in the end of the course.

Exam & Evaluation

Evaluation of students (by scientific committee)

-Master students will be evaluated according to their presentation in a Journal club

-PhD students will be evaluated according to their flash presentations + posters

-Post-doc applicants are requested to present a flash presentation and a poster on their scientific research.  Most significant abstracts will be chosen for  more prolonged 15-minutes talks.

Practical Informations

Practical Informations

This is a real-time virtual course. The registration for students and post-doc is free-of-charge. Registration is mandatory for all categories of attendees.

Upon the registration and following the selection procedure, the course participants will be provided with access to:

  • Web lectures
  • Lecture videos, slides, posters, course booklet
  • Web round table discussions
  • Career development workshop session
  • Journal club presentations
  • Online social events

 

Access here to the registration site

https://meetings.embo.org/event/20-cancer-ai

Informations pratiques détaillées

Please note that due to the current pandemic situation and strict regulations regarding face-to-face meetings, this will be a REAL-TIME VIRTUAL COURSE.

 

Bear in mind that:

 

1) Pre-selected Master students participants will be assigned seminal articles in this field. They will have to  prepare, submit their presentations and present their assigned articles during virtual journal club sessions.

2) Pre-selected PhD and post-doc participants will be asked to present virtual poster sessions and flash presentations sessions. Therefore, they will be asked to submit:

-Posters in A0 size, pdf format

-Slides in pdf format for oral presentations

 

Access here to the registration site:

https://meetings.embo.org/event/20-cancer-ai

Selection result
25 août 2020
There is no registration fee for this course
Place
TBA
TBA

Maximum Number of Participants

120 people

Number of Participants

The real-time online course can accommodate up to 120 Master 2, PhD students and post-docs.

In addition, we expect attendees among researchers, physicians and pharma companies representatives interested to learn about systems biology impact into cancer research and treatment.

Selection Criteria

No previous experience in programming and modelling methods or deep knowledge in systems biology is required. The talks will be constructed in a didactic manner, introducing the audience to the basics on systems biology approaches and applications for cancer research. 

Selections for participation in the course are based on applications. 

Application for the course

-CV (max. 1 page)

-Description of scientific topic in a form of abstract (max. 1 page)

- Motivation letter explaining objectives to attend the course (max. 1 page)

- Recommendation letter from at least 1 reference contact

Note: if your reference(s) wishes to communicate directly with the scientific committee of the course, the recommendation letter(s) can be sent to c.sysbiocancer2020 [at] curie.fr (c[dot]sysbiocancer2020[at]curie[dot]fr) BEFORE the registration deadline.

 

Registration site https://meetings.embo.org/event/20-cancer-ai

 

Speakers

Speakers

Julio SAEZ-RODRIGUEZ Heidelberg University - DE

Lodewyk WESSELS Netherlands Cancer Institute - NL

Susana VINGA  Instituto Superior Técnico - PT

Christina LESLIE SKI - MSKCC - USA

David WEDGE BDI - UK

Andrei ZINOVYEV Institut Curie - FR

Valentina BOEVA ETH - CH Nataliya SOKOLOVSKA UPMC - FR

Thomas‎ WALTER CBIO - MINES - ParisTech - FR

Andrew TESCHENDORFF UCL - UK

Jean-Philippe VERT Google- FR

Olli KALLIONIEMI SciLifeLab - SE

Nasir RAJPOOT University of Warwick - UK

Chloé-Agathe AZENCOTT CBIO - MINES - ParisTech - FR

Florian MARKOWETZ  University of Cambridge - UK

Emma LUNDBERG SciLifeLab - SE

Touati BENOUKRAF MUN - CA

Laura CANTINI IBENS - ENS - FR

Keynote speakers

Nataša PRŽULJ  BSC- ES   Women in Science Lecture

Yves MOREAU KULeuven - BE  

This list of speakers may still change

Organizers

Inna KUPERSTEIN Institut Curie, FR

Emmauel BARILLOT Institut Curie, FR

Yves Moreau, KULeuven, BE

Chloé-Agathe Azencott CBIO - MINES - ParisTech - FR

Denis THIEFFRY IBENS - ENS - FR

Thomas‎ WALTER CBIO - MINES - ParisTech – FR

Scientific Committee

Laurence CALZONE Institut Curie, FR

Tatiana POPOVA Institut Curie, FR

Andrei ZINOVYEV Institut Curie, FR

Sponsored by

Organization

  • U900 - Cancer and Genome: Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Epidemiology of Complex Systems