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Faculty Programs
ASM Education Department
1752 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Ph: 202-942-9317
Fax: 202-942-9329
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Program
Day 1 (participants arrive - morning and afternoon)
| 6:00 PM |
Welcome and introductions |
| 6:30 PM |
Dinner |
| 7:15 PM |
Brainstorm on course topics that can benefit from the use of bioinformatics tools; research questions that undergraduates can ask and answer using bioinformatics/genomics ideas and tools |
| 8:30 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 |
| 4:30 PM |
Mini-assignment 2 (pathway approach to annotate the XYZ genome), part I |
| 5:45 PM |
Dinner |
| 7:00 PM |
Mini-assignment 2, part II |
| 8:00 PM |
End of day |
Day 3
| 8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM |
Introduction to the day’s events and announcements |
| 8:45 AM |
Review of accomplishments from mini-assignment 2 |
| 9:30 AM |
Other aspects of protein sequence and structure: hydrophobicity, Pfams and other weak patterns, and structure |
| 11:30 AM |
Mini-assignment 3 (tied to mini-assignment 2) |
| 12:00 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:15 PM |
Roundtable discussion of participant project ideas |
| 2:30 PM |
Evolutionary analysis |
| 4:30 PM |
Mini-assignment 4 (tied to mini-assignment 2) |
| 5:30 PM |
Dinner |
| 7:00 PM |
Open time for project development |
Day 4
| 8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM |
Presentation uploads and announcements |
| 8:45 AM |
Presentations |
| 11:15 AM |
Wrap-up |
| 12:00 PM |
Adjournment |
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Highlights