Spatial and Molecular Organization of Cells in Diseases

The purpose of this course is the training of the participants in the comprehension of how cells are spatially and hierarchically organized and communicate and the way this organization is altered in diseases.
The course is divided into two distinct modules: "High-content imaging and computational aspects of in vitro and animal model systems" is dedicated to the acquisition, processing and comprehension of data obtained from two popular techniques in the world of bioimaging, i.e., functional MRI and optical microscopy, "Analytical challenges and opportunities from multi-omics" to the one of numerical analysis and interpretation of data obtained by means of next generation sequencing (NGS) techniques.

At the end of the course, the student is expected to acquire the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge for understanding the necessary principles for processing and inspecting tissue and cells imaging results, as well as for the comprehension of imaging data regularly present in literature.