Professional Certificate in Bioinformatics

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.