Pisa old city center

ALPACA Pisa event

1st annual and physical workshop

The very 1st annual workshop of ALPACA European network takes place in Pisa early December (Nov. 29 til Dec. 2).

Pengfei Wang and i are glad to participate and meet in persons with members of the network, included most of recruited PhD students. On the program, courses, invited talks and brainstorming sessions will provide us an update view on current /Challenges of computational pan-genomics*.

The Workshop is organised by the Computer Science Dpt of the University of Pisa.

My presentations for the lectures on Pattern Matching and on Sequence Comparison are now available for download here.

Credit: Photo by Ray Harrington on Unsplash

Eric Rivals
CNRS Research Director in Computer Science and Bioinformatics

My research interests include string algorithms, bioinformatics, genomics.