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Faculty Programs
ASM Education Department
1752 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Ph: 202-942-9299
Fax: 202-942-9329
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Program
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 |
Introduction to the day’s events and announcements |
| 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 |
| 1:15 PM |
Other aspects of gene structure and organization: start codons, operons, and synteny |
| 3:00 PM |
Genome annotation |
| 3:30 PM |
Mini-assignment 2 (pathway approach to annotate the XYZ genome), part I |
| 5:45 PM |
Overview of ASM faculty development programs |
| 6:15 PM |
Dinner |
| 7:15 PM |
Projects to address teaching challenges |
| 9:00 PM |
End of day |
Day 3
| 8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
| 8:45 AM |
Introduction to the day’s events and announcements |
| 9:00 AM |
Protein sequences & structure |
| 11:00 AM |
Mini-assignment 3 (tied to mini-assignment 2) |
| 12:00 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:00 PM |
Evolutionary analysis |
| 2:00 PM |
Mini-assignment 4 (tied to mini-assignment 2) |
| 3:45 PM |
Break |
| 4:00 PM |
Group work on teaching challenges |
| 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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Highlights