Computational Genomics Summer Institute 2019

The 2019 UCLA Computational Genomics Summer Institute.CGSI brings together mathematical and computational scientists, sequencing technology developers in both industry and academia, and the biologists who use the instruments for particular research applications. Research talks, workshops, journal clubs, and social events provide a unique opportunity to foster interactions between these three communities over an extended period of time and advance the mathematical foundations of this exciting field.

DATES
SHORT PROGRAM #1: July 15 – 19, 2019
SHORT PROGRAM #2: July 29 – August 2, 2019
LONG PROGRAM: July 10 – August 2, 2019

@ UCLA Campus, Los Angeles
Visit our website to learn more: CGSI 2019
Check out the schedule from last year: CGSI 2018

The application is open now!
Apply now for this upcoming summer’s Short and Long Courses:
STEP #1 APPLY
STEP #2 SEND YOUR CV to uclacgsi@gmail.com

The regular registration deadline to apply for the 2019 programs is March 1st, 2019.
Overview
In 2015, Profs. Eleazar Eskin (UCLA), Eran Halperin (UCLA), John Novembre (The University of Chicago), and Ben Raphael (Brown University) created the Computational Genomics Summer Institute (CGSI). A collaboration with the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), CGSI aims to build a community focused on methods development in Bioinformatics.

The 2019 CGSI Organizers

CGSI Program Co-directors:
Eleazar Eskin, UCLA
Eran Halperin, UCLA
Dima Shlyakhtenko, UCLA IPAM

CGSI Organizing Committee:
Jessica (Jingyi) Li, UCLA
Sriram Sankararaman, UCLA
David Koslicki, Oregon State University
Eran Halperin, UCLA
Eleazar Eskin, UCLA

The 2016, 2017 and 2018 programs were a huge success – we hope you will be a part of the program this summer!
You can see our 2018 schedule with the videos here.

Social Programs from previous years includes:
Concert at the Hollywood Bowl
Bike rides along the Pacific Coast
Retreat in the Mountains

2019 Faculty
(Additional faculty will be added in the next few months)
Can Alkan, Bilkent University
David Anastasiu, San Jose State University
Valerie Arboleda, UCLA
Sharon Aviran, UC Davis
Vineet Bafna, UCSD
Lisa Bastarache, Vanderbilt University
Dan Benjamin, USC
Gillian Belbin, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ran Blekhman, University of Minnesota
Paul Boutros, UCLA
Na Cai, EBI
Shai Carmi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rayan Chikhi, CNRS
Karen Conneely, Emory University
Nancy Cox, Vanderbilt University
Jason Ernst, UCLA
Eleazar Eskin, UCLA
Jonathan Flint, UCLA
Nandita Garud, UCLA
Simon Gravel, McGill University
Eran Halperin, UCLA
Jo Hardin, Pomona College
Fereydoun Hormozdiari, UC Davis
Haky (Hae Kyung) Im, University of Chicago
Iuliana Ionita, Columbia University
Hyun Min Kang, University of Michigan
Eimear Kenny, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David Koslicki, Oregon State University
Smita Krishnaswamy, Yale University
Jessica (Jingyi) Li, UCLA
Jian Ma, CMU
Anna Spafo Malaspina, SIB
Jonathan Marchini, Regeneron Genetics Center
Siavash Mir Arabbaygi, UCSD
Quaid Morris, University of Toronto
Magnus Nordborg, GMI, Austria
John Novembre, University of Chicago
Layla Oesper, Carleton College
Bogdan Pasaniuc, UCLA
Ben Raphael, Princeton University
Saharon Rosset, Tel Aviv University
Sushmita Roy, WID
Cenk Sahinalp, Indiana University Bloomington
Sriram Sankararaman, UCLA
Michael Schatz, Johns Hopkins University
Alexander Schönhuth, CWI, Amsterdam
Sagiv Shifman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sagi Snir, University of Haifa
Jae-Hoon Sul, UCLA
Fabio Vandin, University of Padova
Peter Vischer, University of Queensland, Australia
Naomi Wray, University of Queensland, Australia
Yi Xing, UCLA
Alex Zelikovsky, Georgia State University
James Zou, Stanford University
Or Zuk, Hebrew University