In this exciting five-day course at an idyllic European location, we will discuss and demonstrate many neuroinformatics tools and public data resources in the context of neurogenomics and brain diseases. The mornings and evenings are filled with lectures on areas of neuroscience in which large datasets are becoming available, such as the synaptic complex and the proteome, synaptic plasticity, impulsivity, mRNAs, neuro-ontology, neurogenomics, and neurogenesis. In the afternoons, students and lecturers together will attempt to apply the new tools and datasets to answer specific research questions. Our aim is to have jointly written draft papers for each of the questions by the end of the course.

All neuroscientists with an interest in neuroinformatics, neurogenomics or brain disease. Graduate students and postdocs are welcome, but also more advanced researchers eager to learn how to exploit the potential of neuroinformatics tools and publicly available datasets in answering their research questions. We aim for about 40 participants.

Lodging, food and coffee will be provided. The course fee is 100 euros only, thanks to generous gifts of our sponsors. We hope to make travel stipends available by application for a selected number of students.

Andreas Beyer: Computational neurogenomics

Seth Grant: Proteomes, synapses, cognition

Alexander Heimel: Genetics of neural plasticity

Gerd Kempermann: Neuro-ontology, genetics of adult neurogenesis and neural aging

Ruth Luthi-Carter: mRNA and miRNA domains

Rupert Overall: mRNAs and ontologies

Glenn Rosen: Structural developmental neurogenetics

Sabine Spijker: Neurogenetics of impulsivity

Rob Williams: Neuroinformatics resources and tools

Alexander Heimel, Rupert Overall and Rob Williams