Institute Agenda

Bioinformatics Institute Agenda

Day 1
6:00 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Welcome
7:15 PM Institute overview and introductions
8:00 PM What is a gene?
9:00 PM End of day

Day 2
8:00 AM Breakfast
8:45 AM Announcements and introduction to the day’s events
9:00 AM BLAST introduction: learn how the BLAST algorithm works and tie it to basic gene structure and to evolutionary change
11:00 AM Mini-assignment 1 (learn how to tweak BLAST searches)
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Introduction to bioinformatics-based course projects
2:00 PM Mini-assignment 2
4:00 PM Roundtable discussion on addressing challenges to incorporating bioinformatics in the classroom
6:00 PM Dinner
7:15 PM Individual project time
9:00 PM End of day

Day 3
8:00 AM Breakfast
8:45 AM Announcements and introduction to the day’s events
9:00 AM Protein sequences and structure
11:00 AM Mini-assignment 3
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Evolutionary analysis
2:00 PM Mini-assignment 4
4:00 PM Individual and group work
7:00 PM Dinner on your own

Day 4
7:30 AM Presentation uploads
8:00 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM Presentations
11:15 AM Evaluation, reflections, and closing remarks
12:00 PM Adjournment

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