This summer school will cover different topics in protein and RNA design as listed below, and will focus on teaching modern modeling approaches in this domain, from statistical physics, computer science, and machine learning fields to recent experimental approaches. Main lectures will consist of 2 mornings of about 3 hours each, followed by afternoon seminars in the same domain and student projects.
The main topics are:
Protein and RNA Design.
Design of small molecules and medical applications: aptamers, regulatory RNA,..
Design through in Vitro Evolution: Selex and Directed Evolution
Design for Immunology.
Techniques: Statistical Physics, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, experimental techniques related to gene synthesis, screening, mutagenesis and experimental evolution.
The Summer School will be held in the Institute D'études Scientifiques De Cargèse, located in the island of Corsica, in France.
Google maps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/muHWjzHjbvSKtsdk7
Buses from Ajaccio to the institute will be organized on the arrival and departure days:
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Otherwise you will have to cover your own taxi or rental car. See this link for further traveling suggestions.
Please apply by filling this form. If your application is accepted, you will also be required to fill a form in the website of the Institute D'études Scientifiques De Cargèse for lodging. For now it is not necessary to specify travel details, this will be done after acceptance. There is no registration fee, but travel, housing, and food expenses will be covered by yourself.
The deadline to apply is: 15 June 2025. Priority will be given to early applicants.
Attendants are expected to stay for the full duration of the school.
Lecturers:
Jérôme Tubiana (Tel Aviv U.)
Rémi Monasson (ENS, Paris)
Sergey Ovchinnikov (MIT, Cambridge US)
John Paul Barton (Pittsburgh, US)
Francesco Zamponi (ENS, Paris)
Seminars:
David Bikard (Pasteur, Paris)
Bastien Boussau (U. Lyon)
Alessandra Carbone (U. Sorbonne, Paris)
Alaksh Choudhury (CEA, France)
Pau Creixell (Cambridge, UK)
Matteo Dal Peraro (EPFL, Lausanne)
R. A. Goldstein (UCL, London)
Victor Greiff (U. Oslo)
Philippe Nghe (ESPCI, Paris)
Marco Ribezzi (ESPCI, Paris)
Joseph W. Thornton (Chicago U.)
Petr Šulc (Arizona State U., & TUM)
Donate Weghorn (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona)
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Program available at this link.
Simona COCCO (LPENS, Paris)
Jorge FERNANDEZ-DE-COSSIO-DIAZ (CNRS, IPhT)
Martin WEIGT (LCQB Sorbonne U.)