This scientific event celebrates the fifth anniversary of CoSBi with top speakers from the Centre’s scientific reference community.

We envision a unique, multidisciplinary environment which stimulates discussion and encourages collaboration on challenges such as the intersection of life sciences and computer science by considering the road from programming languages to personalised healthcare.

We will highlight the relevance of computer science through lectures by guest speakers on simulation, verification and computational thinking – the basis of algorithmic systems biology.

We will present some of CoSBi’s main findings by including in the programme the defence of three PhD theses carried out at CoSBi and a public session of our advisory board review.

Guest speakers will explore the main fields of systems biology and computational biology as well as topics like nutrigenomics, an area currently being investigated by CoSBi that merges personalised medicine with personalised diet.

Speakers

Gianfranco Balbo, Professor, University of Turin - Department of Computer Science

Davide Bassi, Professor and Rector, University of Trento
Andrea Califano, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
Luca Cardelli, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

Frédéric Chyzak, Researcher, Microsoft Research - INRIA Joint Centre

Adrian Cristal, Senior Researcher, BSC – Microsoft Research Centre at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre

Attila Csikasz-Nagy, Researcher, COSBI

Pierpaolo Degano, Professor, University of Pisa - Department of Computer Science

Lorenzo Dematté, Development Manager, COSBI
Pier Paolo Di Fiore, Campus IFOM-IEO; Full Professor, University of Milan
Fabrizio Gagliardi, External Research Dir. EMEA, Microsoft Research
Daron Green, General Manager of Microsoft External Research, Microsoft Research
John Heath, Professor, Centre for Systems Biology, University of Birmingham
Andrew Herbert, Chairman, Microsoft Research EMEA
Tony Hoare, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Leroy Hood, President, Institute for Systems Biology
Michael Hucka, Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology
Jan Trøst Jørgensen, Director, Dx-Rx Institute

James Kaput, Director BDRA, U.S. Food and Drugs Administration

Jean-Jacques Lévy, Director, Microsoft Research - INRIA Joint Centre

Adriana Maggi, Director, Center of Excellence on Neurodegenerative diseases, University of Milan

Oscar Palomar, Student Researcher, BSC – Microsoft Research Centre at Barcelona

Supercomputing Centre
Corrado Priami, Professor, University of Trento, President and CEO, COSBI

Montserrat Puiggròs, Research Support Engineer, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Maria Tasker, Global Technical Project Leader, Unilever Deutschland GmbH Factory

Enrico Tassi, Researcher, Microsoft Research - INRIA Joint Centre
John Tyson, Professor, Tyson Lab Computational Cell Biology, Virginia Tech

Osman Unsal, Senior Researcher, BSC – Microsoft Research Centre at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
Jeannette M. Wing, President's Professor of Computer Science and Department Head,

Carnegie Mellon - School of Computer Science

The main conference registration fee (210 €) includes conference material, coffee breaks from 30th November till 3rd December, lunches from 1st till 3rd December, social dinner on 1st December.

Students can attend free of charge, if seats are still available.