2023
September 25th
September 29th
SysBio Poster 2023
International course

Computational Systems Biology of Cancer

models of data, data for models

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.

Main topics:

  • Cancer
  • Clinical research
  • Prior knowledge and molecular maps
  • Multi-omics
  • Spatial transcriptomics
  • Imaging data
  • Clinical data
  • Data integration
  • Machine learning
  • Dynamical modelling
  • Statistical modelling
  • Network inference
  • Predictive models for various multi-omics data types
  • Treatment response prediction and prognosis
Course in English
3 ECTS
Registration deadline

Presentation

Objectives

The objective of the course is to promote better use of computational approaches into biological labs and to clinics. We aim to help participants to improve interpretation of various types of data accumulated in the labs using multi-modal data integration approaches.

Personal Work

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

  • Post-docs: Presentation of their own scientific project with a 10 minutes flash presentation and a poster (Size A0, portrait)
  • PhD students: Presentation of their own scientific project with a 3 minutes flash presentation and a poster (Size A0, portrait)
  • Master students: Presentation during the Journal Club.

The students will be assigned with seminal articles in the field and will be asked to prepare and present the assigned articles during journal club sessions.

  • All participants: Participation in the Career development session

ECTS Information

3 ECTS corresponding to 30 work-hours.

 

Exam & Evaluation

The course will be validated by 3 ECTS for Master and PhD students, . The course certificates will be issued and sent to the participants at the end of the course.

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.

Research themes
Master's student
Medical student
PhD student
Researcher
Medical
MD/Physician
Pharmacist
Other

Practical Informations

Practical Informations

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:

  • Lectures, slides, posters, course booklet
  • Career development workshop session
  • Journal club presentations
  • Social events
Selection result
June 15, 2023
There is no registration fee for this course
Place
Institut Curie - Bâtiment de Biologie du Développement - Amphithéâtre
11 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie
75248 Paris cedex 05
France

Maximum Number of Participants

100 people

Number of Participants

The course can accommodate up to 100 Master 2, PhD students and post-docs.

Other profiles can apply, for exemple, any researcher, physician and pharma companies representative 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.sysbiocancer2023 [at] curie.fr BEFORE the registration deadline.

Speakers

Speakers

Reka ALBERT - US

Ozgun BABUR – US

Emmanuel BARILLOT - FR

Valentina BOEVA – CH

Laurence CALZONE - FR

Giovanni CIRIELLO - CH

Åsmund FLOBAK – NO

Vassily HATZIMANIKATIS - CH

Connie R. JIMENEZ - NL

Ina KOCH - DE

Vera PANCALDI - FR

Luca PINELLO - US

Julio SAEZ-RODRIGUEZ - DE

Oznur TASTAN – TR

Denis THIEFFRY - FR

Kim THRANE - SE

Thomas WALTER - FR

Lodewijk WESSELS – NL

Keynote speakers

Fatima AL-SHAHROUR - ES

This list of speakers may still change

Organizers

Åsmund FLOBAK - NO 

Ina KOCH - DE 

Julio SAEZ-RODRIGUEZ - DE

Inna KUPERSTEIN - FR

Laurence CALZONE - FR

Denis THIEFFRY - FR

Emmanuel BARILLOT - FR

Thomas WALTER - FR

Philippe HUPE - FR

With

Supported by

Organization

  • Advanced Training Office - Institut Curie