CENTURI Summer School
2021

CENTURI Summer School
2021

From data to biology and back

Reverse engineering biological networks 

June 15 - 24, 2021 -  Luminy campus (Marseille, France)

We created the CENTURI Summer School to build bridges between scientists and engineers, allowing them to meet, exchange and work together on interdisciplinary projects.

The CENTURI summer school is aimed at students from Master of Science and engineering schools (Bachelor students in their final year are also accepted) with backgrounds in Physics, Mathematics and Computational Sciences who are interested in applying their skills towards problems in Biology. The summer school, entitled “From data to biology and back”, will introduce major open questions in systems biology. It will address those questions through the use of state-of–the-art techniques for analyzing and modelling data sets, via hands-on projects.

The mornings will be dedicated to lectures by high-level speakers to tackle biology’s challenges in data analysis but also to presentation of experimental methods used to collect biological data in experimental labs and to specific sessions to better understand research and daily life in academia. The afternoons are dedicated to hands-on projects on biological data. Participants will work in small groups and use state-of-the-art equipment to collect and analyze biological data sets. Participants will also have the chance to present their project and benefit from valuable feedback from a tutor and a scientific committee.

Programme

Morning lectures

  • Open questions in biology, with high-level international speakers (see below)

 

  • Interdisciplinarity and personal experience

Sharing experience

Women in Science

Ethics in Science

Open Science

Science and tech transfer

illustration

Invited speakers

Afternoon projects

Enrolled participants will work in small groups (3-4 people) on concrete biological data analysis projects (proposed by lab heads) during the afternoons of the summer school. Each group will be advised by a mentor, who will guide and support students to solve the projects' biological questions, using biological data analysis. The type of data will vary depending on projects. At the end of the summer school, participants will present their project to instructors and fellow participants.

Scientific program

Useful information

The Summer School will welcome 25 students.  Applicants should have some experience using Matlab and Python. Each student should bring a laptop.

 Our workshop is aimed at students from engineering schools and Master’s in Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science interested in Biology.

 

Registration fees: 50€ (excluding taxes)

Students who joined our internship program are exempted from registration fees.

 

For informal enquiries: info@centuri-livingsystems.org

Deadline for application: May 04, 2021

Housing

Housing will be provided to non-local attendees (free of charge).

Participants will be hosted at the CROUS on the Luminy Campus.

Venue

CENTURI Summer School morning courses will take place on the Luminy Campus, in the Hexagone

Afternoon projects will take place in the tutors' lab / institute. 

campus

CENTURI internship program

The CENTURI Summer School is also coupled with the CENTURI internship program. This programme offers funded internships of 3 to 6 months in research laboratories. CENTURI internship program is the opportunity for engineering students to apply their skills in maths, physics and computer science to biological questions.

Students participating to the internship programme can also join the Summer School.