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 2024, to check details about this live event and the original programme.

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
Introduction to EMBL-EBIDayane Araujo
Dementia data and knowledge resources
Dementia Platform UKSarah Bauermeister 
Dementia data resources: AD AtlasMatthias Arnold and Maria Ulmer
AD Knowledge PortalAbby Vander Linden
Dementia data resources: ADDIGraham Bearden, Manuela Dorado, Monica Scroggs, Mukta Phatak
Data-driven approaches to understand dementia
Introduction to single cell RNAs-seq analysisAnita Scoones
Application of single cell analysis to dementia research: practicalMark Fiers and Emma Davis
Application of machine learning in dementia researchSamaneh Kouchaki
Extracting information from omics dataMateus Bernardo-Harrington and Charlotte Capitanchik
Biomarkers and polygenic risk score Valentina Escott-Price and Emily Simmonds 
BioImaging in dementia Edward Avezov and Pierre Parutto 
Spatial transcriptomicsDaria Gavriouchkina 
EMBL-EBI data resources
Expression Atlas and Single Cell Expression AtlasLiora Vilmovsky
Open Targets Helena Cornu and Annalisa Buniello 
PRIDEJuan Antonio Vizcaino
ChEMBLSybilla Corbett
ReactomeKrishna Tiwari
BioImage ArchiveAybuke Kupcu Yoldas