23 - 26 June 2026 – When there is always sunlight!
PALS SUMMER SCHOOL IN TRANSCRIPTOMICS
DURING DEVELOPMENT AND CANCER

#PALSschool2026

 
   

Come to this beautiful Swedish inland scenario to learn the most advanced technologies to study transcriptional regulation.


COURSE OVERVIEW
Dates: 23 – 26 June 2026

This course is designed for PhD students and Postdocs who work in the field studying the Transcriptional Control of the Genome during Embryonic Development, Cell Differentiation, and Disease, or for those who would like to approach it.

Here, we will strive to provide each participating student with a robust theoretical foundation of the most important questions in the field, and the spectrum of technologies that are currently under development to respond them. For example, one of the primary focuses will be to discuss how to combine “wet” and “dry” technologies to address computationally demanding, important biological questions.

A key feature of this course will be the relatively low ratio between participants and teachers/speakers. This will allow each participant to come in close contact with successful scientists and learn how they developed key technologies to respond to pressing questions in their field.

The course will include talks, group discussions and group activities.

In addition to subject matter-specific topics introduced by professors, you will also benefit of hands-on computational lectures by Previous Participants on:

An important innovation of this year is that previous summer school participants, on the wave of their current scientific successes, have been selected to teach.

Participate and candidate yourself to being the next generation teacher!

The school will also include a short course on scientific writing for developmental and cancer biologists.

 

 

   SPEAKERS  
         
         
     
             
Alexa McIntyre
Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Linköping University
  Simon Koplev
SciLifeLab, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm
  Vivien Horvath
Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Umeå University
  Takashi Fukaya
University of Tokyo, Japan
       
             
George Hausmann

University of Zurich

  Silvia Nicolis

University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

  Manuel Carminati

Center for Integrative Biology in Toulouse (CBI Toulouse), France

 
 


 

FORMER PARTICIPANTS NOW TEACH
         
   
         

Aleksandra A Kurowska

KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia 

 

Luminita Ruje

MRC, London, UK

 

Ana Rosa López Pérez

Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Spain

 
     

Daniel Mouzo

Queen Mary University, London, UK

 

Artemy Zhigulev

Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden


 

    ORGANISERS
 
   
         
 
     
Claudio Cantù
 
Silvia Remeseiro

Professor at the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Linköping University,
Sweden

 

Associate Professor at the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Umeå University,
Sweden

 


The Summer School is generously funded by the Program for Academic leaders in Life Science (PALS)