Bioinformatics course
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Bioinformatics for molecular biology (10.0/8.0 credit points)
Description The aim of the course is to introduce students to bioinformatics resources and tools for molecular biology research by having some of the best researchers in Norway to talk about their field in general and then present their own work. Students are encouraged to bring a lap-top; we will be set up for in-course demonstrations as well as practical lab exercises. The course is intended for biology students or computer science/math students. No prior background in bioinformatics or computer science is required.
The course is jointly delivered by the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo, the Department of Molecular Biosciences (IMBV), the Department of Informatics (IFI) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. This course is one of the Ph.D. School courses offered by the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo (http://www.biotek.uio.no/ny-web/events/).
Registration is now open as of July 3rd, 2009.
MBV-INF 4410 (M.Sc. level course code)10.0 study points
MBV-INF 9410A (Ph.D. level course code) 10.0 study points
MBV-INF 9410B (Ph.D. level course code) 8.0 study points
The course can be taken as a full course (10 credit points) or as a short version without writing the essay (8 credit points) for Ph.D. level students.
NOTE: The description of the course at http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/molbio/MBV-INF4410/ is old and will be updated to reflect the course content and format described on this page.
Please bookmark this page. All future changes or announcements for the 2009 course will be posted to this page.
Information:
ragni.indahl@biotek.uio.no (about course administration)
ian.donaldson@biotek.uio.no (about course content)
Registration:
torill.rortveit@imbv.uio.no
Dates and times
The course will occur in weeks 37 and 38 (September 7th and 14th).
Each day will consist of three time slots for lectures and/or practical labs between 9 AM and 4 PM.
Place
Forskningsparken
Directions to Forsknings parken can be found at http://www.biotek.uio.no/map.html
Mondays to Thursdays: Room 10 (one level down from the main entrance)
Fridays: Room 7 (one level down from the main entrance)
Exceptions: none so far
Lunch is on your own between 1:00 PM and 2:15 PM (except 15th and 22nd: 11:00 AM to 12:30). Please completely vacate the room during these lunch times.
Programme
Please note: The displayed programme is a preliminary schedule under development. Changes are possible.
| Time | Speaker | Contact | Details and suggested readings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 - Monday September 7 | |||
| 9.00-9.15 | Ian Donaldson | http://donaldson.uio.no | Introduction |
| 9.15-11.00 | Anja Bråthen Kristoffersen | http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~anjab/ | |
| 11:15-13.00 | Ole Christian Lingjærde | http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~ole/ | An introduction to statistical inference |
| 14.15-16.00 | Einar A. Rødland | http://folk.uio.no/einarro/ | Statistics |
| Day 2 - Tuesday September 8 | |||
| 9.15-11.00 | Arnoldo Frigessi | http://www.nr.no/~frigessi/ | Statistics: False Discovery Rate |
| 11:15-13.00 | Antonio Mora | http://donaldson.uio.no | |
| 14.15-16.00 | Antonio Mora | http://donaldson.uio.no | |
| Day 3 -Wednesday September 9 | |||
| 9.15-11.00 | Leonardo Meza-Zepeda | Dept. of Tumor Biology, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center | Principals and Applications of Microarrays |
| 11:15-13.00 | Ståle Nygård | http://www.heartfailure.no/people/member/nyg_rd.html | Microarray data analysis |
| 14.15-16.00 | Microarrays | ||
| Day 4 - Thursday September 10 | |||
| 9.15-11.00 | Torbjørn Rognes | http://www.rr-research.no/rognes/ | Sequence alignments and BLASTing |
| 11:15-13.00 | Robert Lyle | High throughput sequencing | |
| 14.15-16.00 | Geir K. Sandve | Motif scanning and discovery in DNA | |
| Day 5 - Friday September 11 | |||
| 9.15-11.00 | Dave W. Ussery | Comparative genomics | |
| 11:15-13.00 | Multiple | Sequence lab | |
| 14.15-16.00 | Multiple | Sequence lab | |
| Day 6 - Monday September 14 | |||
| 9.15-11.00 | Bjørn Dalhus | Structural biology review and PyMOL | |
| 11:15-13.00 | Jon K. Laerdahl | Structural bioinformatics tools, predictors, and 3D modeling | |
| 14.15-16.00 | Dalhus and Laerdahl | Structural tutorials and exercises | |
| Day 7 - Tuesday September 15 | |||
| 9.15-11.00 | Ian Donaldson | http://donaldson.uio.no | Working with gene lists and over-representation analysis |
| 11:15-13.00 | Ian Donaldson | Interaction, Complex and Pathway data resources | |
| 14.15-16.00 | Antonio Mora, Sabry Razick, Paul Boddie | Interaction lab | |
| Day 8 - Wednesday September 16 | |||
| 9.15-10.00 | Erik Plahte | http://www.cigene.no/people.html | Modelling paradigms for gene regulatory networks |
| 10.15-11.00 | Arne Gjuvsland | http://www.cigene.no/people.html | Causally cohesive genotype-phenotype modelling - systems biology meets genetics |
| 11.15-12.00 | Jon Olav Vik | http://www.cigene.no/people.html | cGP map of the cardiomyocyte |
| 12:15-13.00 | Harald Martens | http://www.cigene.no/people.html | QTL analysis with biospectroscopy - on cows and milk |
| 13:00-14.15 | Lunch | ||
| 14.15-15.00 | Achim Kohler | http://www.cigene.no/people.html | A new phenotyping paradigm for yeast |
| 15.15-16.00 | Solve Sæbø | http://www.umb.no/ikbm/ansatte/solve.sabo | Multivariate analysis of yeast genetic data (Regner med at Lars er borte da.) |
| Day 9 - Thursday September 17 | |||
| 9.15-11.00 | Joakim Sundnes | http://simula.no/ | TBA: Modelling physiological systems |
| 11:15-13.00 | George Magklaras | http://www.no.embnet.org/ | EMBNet |
| 14.15-16.00 | Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi | http://www.bioportal.uio.no | BioPortal |
| Day 10 - Friday September 18 | |||
| 9.15-12.00 | Open lab and study session | ||
| 1.15-16.00 | Other ideas: Student presentations, Programming (Python, Taverna, R), Machine learning, Genome browser, text mining and PubGene | ||
| Day 11 - Monday September 21 | |||
| 9.15-13.15 | Exam (4 hour written open book) | ||
