• July 5, 2008, 16.00 - 17.00: Lectio Magistralis Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Laureate, European Brain Research Institute - EBRI, Italy
• First week, July 6-12, 2008: "Cutting Edge Genomic Technologies".
• Second week, July 12-19, 2008: "Application of Genomic Technologies to the Biomedical Field".

• Enrico Alessi, STMicroelectronics - Italy, "In-CheckTM platform: a highly integrated solution for rapid and accurate nucleic acid testing"
  
• Giorgio Ascoli, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University - USA, "Introduction to neuroinformatics and computational neuroanatomy"
• Salvatore Baglio, University of Catania - Italy, "Magnetic strategies for biosensors"
• Sebastiano Battiato and Giovanni M. Farinella, University of Catania - Italy, "Microarray image analysis"
• Lucia Bianchi, Lawyer - Italy, "Forensic DNA"
• Pietro Calissano, European Brain Research Institute, Italy, "System neurobiology: from a reductionistic to an olistic approach"
• Marco Cappelletti, Applied Biosystems - Italy, "Innovations in small RNA analysis"
• Maria Rosaria Capua, Qiagen S.p.A. - Italy, "QIAxcel: how to analyze DNA and RNA in few minutes"
• Sebastiano Cavallaro, Institute of Neurological Sciences, CNR - Italy, "Genomics: at the intersection of neuronal life and death"
• Salvo Coffa, STMicroelectronics - Italy, "New technologies and products for healthcare"
• Alessandra Costanzo, Roche Diagnostics - Italy, "New solutions for functional genomics"
• Femke de Snoo, Agendia - The Netherlands, "Applying genomic profiling to enable personalized medicine"
• Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa - Italy, "Executable models for synaptic plasticity and VICE: a virtual cell"
• C. Forbes Jr. Dewey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - USA, "A web-based architecture for parallel computation of molecular pathway models"
• Filippo Drago, University of Catania - Italy, "Pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics and individualized therapies"
• Mark Hughes, MetaCore - UK, "Practical course on pathway analysis and gene expression"
• Michele Iacono, Roche Diagnostics - Italy, "New technologies Roche Applied Science"
• Andrew Koo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - USA, "Practical course on biological pathways analysis simulation"
• Vladimir Lazar, Institut Gustave Roussy, "Overview of microarray platform and latest technology developments"
• Carsten Lederer, Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy - Italy, "Practical Course on gene ontologies and pathway analysis"
• Pietro Lio', Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge - UK, "Methods and models in computational genomics"
• Bud Mishra, New York University - USA, "Computational biology"
• Ben Oostra, Erasmus University - The Netherlands, "Linkage and association studies using markers and SNP arrays"
• Corrado Priami, Microsoft Research - University of Trento COSBI - Italy, "Computational systems biology: a programming language approach"
• John Quackenbush, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University - USA, "Microarray data analysis: Tumor classification by genomic analysis"
• Claudio Schneider, University of Udine - Italy, "Gene expression profiling of advanced ovarian cancer"
• Magdalena Skipper, Nature Publishing Group - UK, "Careers in science publishing"
• Giusy Stoico,TechnoGenetics - Italy, "Diagnostics applications of CGH arrays"
• Elisabetta Tendi, Wyeth - Italy, "Toxicogenomics"
• Massimo Tifi, Abel - Italy, "Practical course on DNA microarray analysis"

Giuseppe Nicosia, Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization, Numerical Optimization, Non Linear Optimization, Large Scale Optimization, Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Immune Algorithms, Artificial Immune Systems, Graph Coloring, String Folding, NP-complete problems, Circuit Optimization, Circuit Design, Design For Yield, Device Optimization, Bioinformatics, Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Folding, Protein Structure Prediction, HP model.