HPC Training Series - Course 14 "Biosciences using High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems"

Thursday 19 Jun 2025, 10:00 → 14:15 Europe/Athens

EuroCC@Greece and the IT Dept. of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki announce the 14th Course of HPC Training Series with the subject "Biosciences using High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems".  

Date: June 19th, 2025, at 10:00 EET  

Location: Online via Zoom

Presentation Languages: Greek

Audience: This course is intended for members of the academic community and industry (researchers, data scientists, ML engineers, etc.) who are interested in the utilization of High Performance Computing technologies in Biosciences.

Course Description: This course provides an introduction on using HPC infrastructure for computational bioscience applications (and related fields), through practical examples, use cases, and specific methodologies.

Learning Objectives:

• Familiarize potential users with the end-to-end processes of deploying and optimizing high-performance computing workflows for cutting-edge bioscience tasks on modern infrastructures such as the “Aristotelis” HPC system.

• Understand how HPC accelerates and scales bioscience applications.

 

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10:00 → 10:15 Introduction to EuroCC & the training events

Speaker: Lena Kanellou (Senior Researcher, EuroCC@Greece/Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (ICS-FORTH))

10:15 → 10:45 Introduction to AUTH’s HPC infrastructure “Aristotelis” and short demo

Speaker: Alexandra Charampidou (HPC engineer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki )

10:45 → 11:15 HPC in biomarker and drug target discovery

Speaker: Nikolaos Dovrolis (Senior Researcher, Department of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace)

11:15 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:15 Introduction to Population (epi-)Genomics- demo on Aristotelis HPC infrastructure

Speaker: Konstantinos Sagonas (Assistant Professor, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki )

12:15 → 13:00 Introduction to RNA-seq Analysis: Basic Concepts in Gene Expression- demo on Aristotelis HPC infrastructure

Speaker: Korina Karagianni (Ph.D. Candidate, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

13:00 → 13:15 Break

13:15 → 14:00 TBD - Computations for natural systems

Speaker: Christos Ouzounis (Professor of Bioinformatics, School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki )

14:00 → 14:15 Questions / Open discussion