The GplusE project is delighted to announce a 2- week course on Bioinformatics for postgraduate students. At the end of the course, the participants will receive a professional certificate in Bioinformatics.
Date: May 23rd – June 3rd, 2016
Location: University College Dublin, School of Veterinary Medicine and Conway Institute for Biomolecular and Biomedical Research (This link provides information on how to get to the UCD Belfield campus http://www.ucd.ie/gettingtoucd.htm. The course will take place in Building 74 on this map: https://www.ucd.ie/maps/ucdmap_eng.html)
Entry requirement: Undergraduate degree in Agriculture, Life Sciences or Veterinary Medicine
Registration link: http://tinyurl.com/zexhsa6 (Click the apply button on the bottom of the page)
Download the draft timetable of the course
Cost:
- Free for all GplusE project members
- 1 500 Euros for non-project participants
Lecturers:
- Dr. Gavin Conant, University of Missouri
- Dr. Chris Elsik, University of Missouri
- Prof. Denis Shields, University College Dublin
- Prof. Michel Georges, University of Liege-FVM or others from the same university
- Prof. Jan Fostier, UGent
- Prof. Willem Waegemn, UGent
The outline of the course includes:
- Basic scripting
- Introduction to next-generation sequencing
- Protein structure modelling and analysis
- Molecular evolution and phylogenetics
- Network biology
- SNP data and use in GWAS
Programme of topics:
- Genome structure, sequencing/assembly, annotation
- Next-generation sequencing
- LINUX/UNIX
- Intro to evolutionary selection
- Population genomics
- Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)
- Scripting for evolutionary simulation
- Population genetics/drift/selection
- Refining evolution Sims
- Tree-thinking/Darwin’s big idea
- Phylogenetics
- Network biology—Theory & Cytoscape
- Metabolic modelling/FBA
- Protein structure prediction
(If there is a lot of interest, may continue in subsequent years and in other universities, but for now focus on 2016).
You can download information on the accomodation options.
Please email irene.ward@ucd.ie if you have any questions.