Advanced Neurogenomics

– A primer on regulation of gene expression and statistical considerations – RNA-seq: how it works – Sequence quality control and mapping algorithms – Detection of differential gene expression – Clustering and other methods to reduce dimensionality – Gene

Biological Sciences

Aims of the course are: 1) to educate students in the critical reading of omics-based publication both for the experimental and data analysis parts 2) to illustrate how these technologies have provided novel insights into the functional organization of the nervous system and 3) to provide students with the knowledge necessary to design their own omics-based projects, perform initial data analysis and interact with bioinformaticians for more complex analysis

at least a Bachelor

20h

Monday morning,Friday afternoon

30

Oral Examination

20

Scuola Normale Superiore

Scuola Normale Superiore

Classe di Scienze