Winter School on Basic Science and Translational Research

09:00 – 09:15 – Welcome + Course Agenda (Caterina Strisciuglio, Naples, Italy, and Marco Gasparetto, Norwich, UK)
09:15 – 09:30 Research Opportunities across ESPGHAN and beyond – an update (Andreas Jenke, Kassel, Germany, Former Chair of ESPGHAN Education Committee)
09:30 - 09:45 The ESPGHAN Science Task Force and the ESPGHAN Curriculum (Lissy de Ridder, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, ESPGHAN Scientific Secretary)
09:45 – 10:00 The ESPGHAN Special Interest Group for Basic Science and Translational Research: current and future activities (Federica Giachero, Cambridge, UK, SIG co-chair)
10:00 – 10:45 – Different types of clinical research studies including systematic reviews and meta-analysis in paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition – how good are we? (Morris Gordon, UCLan, Preston, UK)
10:45 – 11:15 – Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15 – Exercises related to the systematic review methodology (e.g. delegates to skip read a scientific paper and assess the risk of bias) (Morris Gordon, UCLan, Preston, UK)
12:15 -13:00 –   Gene therapy ( Alberto Auricchio, Telethon Research Institute, Naples)
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch break
14:00 – 14:45 – In-vitro pre-clinical research methodologies: from cell lines to organoid cultures– how much progress have we achieved? (Matthias Zilbauer, Cambridge, UK)
14:45– 15:45 – Delegates to work in groups and discuss their own research projects (abstracts sent upon application for the course) – Delegates will choose an abstract and will discuss possible improvements prior to presenting it to the larger audience
15:45 – 16:15 – Coffee break
16:15 – 18:00 – Group representatives to present their research projects – discussion with faculty and scoring – The best project will be awarded and the panel will mentor the abstract author on the project realisation following the course
18:00 – Tour of Naples city centre including the Street of Cribs
19:30 – Course dinner

09:00 – 09:15 – Course Agenda and summary of day 1 (Caterina Strisciuglio, Naples, Italy, and Marco Gasparetto, Norwich, UK)
09:15 – 10:15 – Basics of statistics for non-statisticians and how to read a scientific paper (Konstantinos Gerasimidis, Glasgow, UK)
10:15– 11:00 – Data analysis in medical sciences – challenges and tips for choosing the the right tools for the right dataset (Philip Robinson, Cambridge, UK)
11:00 – 11:20 – Coffee break
11:20 – 12:45 –Hands-on session on data analysis (Philip Robinson, Cambridge, UK)
12:45 – 14:00 – Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 – Exercise on scientific writing – delegates are provided with data and asked to write an abstract
15:00-15:45 – iPSC models related to monogenic IBD (Daniel Kotlarz, Munich, Germany)
15:45 – 16:00 – Closing remarks (Caterina Strisciuglio, Naples, Italy, and Marco Gasparetto, Norwich, UK)