Course content

These materials were part of the live ‘Data-driven approach to understanding dementia’ course run jointly with the UK Dementia Research Institute. Please refer to the course page and programme of the last edition of this course, in April 2026, to check details about this live event and the original programme. Please note that we have included a few materials which were taught in the 2024 version of this course.

The content table below outlines the different sessions that were included in the course, as well as the format of the materials (slides/videos/practicals) and each session’s trainer. Either proceed through the materials using the arrows at the end of each page or pick your topic of interest from the table below to skip straight to it.

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FormatSubjectTrainer
Dementia data and knowledge resources
Dementia Platform UKKafayat Adeoye
DataMap: exploring a Dementia-focused knowledge graphSadegh Abadijou and Li Ling Lee
Dementia data resources: AD Atlas (session from 2024)Matthias Arnold and Maria Ulmer
AD Knowledge Portal (session from 2024)Abby Vander Linden
Dementia data resources: ADDI (session from 2024)Graham Bearden, Manuela Dorado, Monica Scroggs, and Mukta Phatak
Data harmonisation in DementiaManuela Tan and Alejandro Martinez-Carrasco
Data-driven approaches to understand dementia
Introduction to single cell RNAs-seq analysisAnita Scoones
Application of single cell analysis to dementia research: practicalDaan Moechars
Machine learning approaches in dementiaMaryam Shoai and Samaneh Kouchaki 
Extracting information from omics dataMateus Bernardo-Harrington and Charlotte Capitanchik
Risk Prediction Modelling in Alzheimer’s Disease: Polygenic Risk ScoreEmily Simmonds and Ganna Leonenko 
BioImaging in dementia Edward Avezov and Pierre Parutto 
Spatial transcriptomicsDaria Gavriouchkina, Nikolai Hecker, and Alexander Becalick
EMBL-EBI data resources
Expression Atlas and Single Cell Expression AtlasSilvie Korena Fexova
Open Targets Helena Cornu and Annalisa Buniello 
PGS catalogSanthi Ramachandran
PRIDEDeepti Kundu and Ananth Prakash
ChEMBLEmma Jayne Manners
BioImage ArchiveMelina Velasquez