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The Marseille Rare Diseases Summer School 2027

The Marseille Rare Diseases Institute (MarMaRa) is organizing its second CIVIS—Europe’s Civic University Alliance—international summer school, titled“Rare Diseases in the Omics Era: Current Tools for Frequent Challenges.” 

This Blended Intensive Program (BIP) is organized in collaboration with the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) (BE) and the University of Salzburg (AT).

🧬 Rare Diseases in the Omics Era: current tools for frequent challenges 

Information & registration: https://civis-agora.widening.eu/offering/46/2267

Application deadline: October 31, 2026

Coordination / Partner Universities:

  • Aix-Marseille University: Denis Puthier; Marie-Cécile Gaillard
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles: Isabelle Migeotte
  • University of Salzburg: Angelika Lahnsteiner

Open to all students at European CIVIS universities and in African member countries

How are omics technologies applied in the field of rare diseases?

  • Phase I 📍 remote, online 📅 March–May 2027
  • Phase II 📍 Luminy Campus, Marseille, France: 📅 June 28 – July 2, 2027

📚 Preliminary PROGRAM: 

  • Fundamentals of human genetics;
  • Epigenetics;
  • iPSCs applied to rare diseases;
  • Biomedical ethics;
  • R programming;
  • Bioinformatics analysis pipeline;
  • Sequencing technology;
  • Variant analysis;
  • Splicing events;
  • Single-cell RNA-seq;
  • Spatial transcriptomics