Cerone, Antonio

Scotti, Marco

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PHD PROGRAM:  EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF PARMA AND FERRARA (ITALY)  JUNE 10-12, 2014 CAMPUS, PARCO AREA DELLE SCIENZE   INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL     June 10-12, 20014 University of Parma (Italy)  "There are always connections; you have only to want to find them." Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum  Course Description Networks are a paradigmatic example of complex system in nature. They have been used to represent species and their relationships (ecological networks), social interactions (social networks), protein interaction and gene regulatory networks (biological networks). The last frontiers of ecological, biological and social research identify networks as the ideal means to understand the complexity hidden in ecological, biological and social systems and that is responsible for their functioning.   The summer school aims to introduce network analysis to graduate students and early postdocs but participation is possible to anyone who has interest in studying networks: from data collection to theoretical analysis, using a wide array of network types (food webs, ecosystem models, gene regulatory, and protein-protein interaction networks, social networks) as well as mathematical and statistical tools to investigate them.  Instructors  Marco Scotti: GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung, Duesternbrooker Weg 20, D-24105 Kiel, Germany Louis Felix Beriser: University of Fribourg Department of Biology Unit of Ecology & Evolution Fribourg Switzerland Stefano Allesina: Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chiacago, Chicago IL USA Antonio Bodini: Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parma, Italy   Syllabus  General concepts (Bodini)  Matrices and graphs Networks and topology Basic graph theory definitions and properties of interest Random, scale free and small world networks  Biological Networks (Scotti)  Network analysis in systems biology: - General principles of network theory to characterize the biological properties of metabolic, gene regulatory, and protein-protein interaction networks - Network medicine: human disease network and disease-gene network - Biological function of network modules: the predominant role of metabolism-associated biological processes terms in Alzheimers disease - Modelling cellular compartmentation in one-carbon metabolism  Ecological Networks (Allesina-Beriser-Bodini)  Basics of graph theory  - types of graphs (directed-undirected, weighted, unipartite, [WINDOWS-1252?]bipartiteŠ)  - describing graphs (degrees, centrality, nestedness, modularity)  - null models (random graphs, swap algorithm)  A short history of the study of ecological networks  - From Camerano to MacArthur  The search for regularities in the structure of food-webs  - Scaling laws  - Intervality  - Sensitivity to sampling effort  - Quantitative food-webs  Models of food-web structure  - Cascade model  - Niche model  - Nested hierarchy model  - Minimum potential niche model  Statistical models to study network structure  - allometric diet breadth model  - optimal body-size and latent traits models  - matching-centrality model Local stability analysis, stability of large networks, circular/elliptic laws. Metapopulation networks, Levins model, the Hanski-Ovaskainen model, new extensions.  Registration Enrollment is restricted to the first 30 registrants. Enrollment is free of charge but candidates are requested to provide on their own for travel and living expenses. Registration will be open until the school opening (June 10, 2014). Earlier registration can be achieved by electronic mail to antonio.bodini@unipr.it (Antonio Bodini, director of the school)  Date and Location The course will be held June 10-12, 2014 at the University Campus, Edificio Polifunzionale della Didattica (see map below) Parco Area delle Scienze, Parma (Italy)    CAMPUS MAP    

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