IICII Summer School in Quantitative Biology

This is a hands-on school of quantitative biology where students perform wet-lab experiments, acquire the necessary theoretical tools to understand their data, analyze the data and quantify their results. The school is a joint initiative between ICTP-ICGEB, Curie Institute and IFOM (Hence the acronym - IICII). Each week is formed of two modules.

Students can attend two modules out of four. The school will be held every Summer, rotating between Milan (IFOM), Trieste (ICTP-ICGEB), and Paris (Curie Institute). In each edition, the host node will set up the wet-lab part, and there will be guest lecturers from the other two nodes. The first edition will be held at IFOM in September 2024. We plan a second edition in Trieste in 2025 and one in Paris in 2026.

Target

A mix of undergraduates and Master's students from hard-sciences and biological sciences. The school is designed especially for students who are considering pursuing a PhD in research areas at the interface between biology and quantitative sciences.

Goal

The goal of the quantitative biology summer school is to promote interdisciplinary approaches to biological problems and create an interdisciplinary environment between biology and mathematics, physics, engineering, statistics, and computer science.