SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

Degree course: 
Corso di Second cycle degree in BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2016/2017
Year: 
2
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2017/2018
Course type: 
Supplementary compulsory subjects
Credits: 
4
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
36
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (24 hours), Exercise (12 hours)
Requirements: 

none

Oral only

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

• Understand how emergent properties of a complex system may provide hints to understand the mechanism under lying a given phenotype
• Learn how to get mechanistic information from large datasets obtained through an unbiased approach and how to evaluate the false discovery rate of proposed mechanisms
• Understand and analyze protein networks and get advantage of network analysis tools
• Learn how to build deterministic and stochastic bottom-up models
• Learn to know the main network motifs in transcriptional and signal transduction networks and their dynamics

Introduction to SB
Over-representation Analysis
Network theory
Biological networks
Modeling biological circuits

Material provided by the lecturer

Classroom and computer room lectures

none

Professors

Borrowers