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New Fall Class:  Statistical Analysis for Microarray Technologies

New Fall Class:  Statistical Methods in Genomics

New Fall Class:  Human Computer Interaction

Mark Your Calendars for Rocky '08

Upcoming Workshop with Katerina Kechris and Tzu Phang
New Consortium Purchases Roche/FLX Machine
School of Medicine at UC Denver Awarded $2.5 Million to train in Biomedical Informatics

EVENTS CALENDAR

New Fall Class!

Statistical Analysis for Microarray Technologies

Tzu Phang, Instructor  tzu.phang@ucdenver.edu

BIOS 6660/BIOS 7660 

Monday and Wednesday 12-12:50pm

2 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: BIOS-6611 (or instructor’s consent)

Do you know how to analyze high-throughput microarray data using R?

This course provides students with hands on experience in analyzing full-scale
microarray data using the statistical software R, and its packages from the
Bioconductor consortium. We will also explore other microarray
technologies, such as epigenetics, and copy number analysis.

Also check out the companion course:

BIOS 6659/ BIOS 7659 "Statistical Methods in Genomics"

New Fall Class!

Statistical Methods in Genomics

Katerina Kechris, Instructor  katerina.kechris@uchsc.edu 

BIOS 6659/BIOS 7659  

Monday and Wednesday 1- 1:50pm

2 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: BIOS-6611 (or other graduate statistics course with instructor’s consent)

Are you interested in how statistics and computational methods can be used to explore the activity of thousands of genes simultaneously?  to predict the
locations of genes in the genome?  to study molecular evolution?
This course will cover these topics and more to give you an introduction to statistical theory and methodology applicable to the analysis of molecular sequences and microarray data.

Also check out the companion course:

BIOS 6660/ BIOS 7660 "Statistical Analysis for Microarray Technologies "

New Fall Class!

Human Computer Interaction:  Survey & Synthesis

Leysia Palen, Instructor

CSCI 7000-005
Tuesdays 09:30am-12:00pm
ECOT 831

This graduate level course deeply examines the interdisciplinary field of human computer interaction research and development.  The course will appeal to students across numerous disciplines, including computer science; the social sciences, including cognitive science, sociology, communication and more; business; the media arts; and other disciplines that are increasingly focusing on informatics and user interaction in their particular areas of application specialization.  Most students who want to address some combination of computation and human behavior will benefit from this content- and historical- survey of the field, which will be accomplished in part by engaging in a combination of both shared and individualized readings.

At the center of the course will be a new book by Erickson and McDonald and published  in 2008 by the MIT Press, _HCI Remixed: Essays on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community_.  Students will uncover the trajectories of ideas that have moved through this field across time and across disciplines by studying classic readings upon which that textbook is based, and a sample of subsequent and current readings that have further advanced the field.

The material and methods for this course are modeled on features of the professional world of post-graduate research and development to help junior researchers develop these skills, and includes deep reading of the field, critical review, focused writing, presentation, and discussion.  By semester's end, students will have knowledge of major milestones, contributions and researchers in this field, and will have developed a repertoire of skills, intellectual relationships and materials they can leverage for their specialized concerns.

CSCI 7000-005: Current Topics in Computer Science: Human Computer Interaction -- Survey and Synthesis
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/courses/csci7000hciss.html

Mark Your Calendars for Rocky '08

Mark your calendar and join us for another great Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference.  The conference will be held December 4-7, 2008 at the Silvertree Hotel in Snowmass, CO.

For more information and key dates go to:

www.iscb.org/rocky08/index.php

Upcoming Workshop with Katerina Kechris and Tzu Phang

Join us for a "Genomics and Proteomics Hands-on Workshop:  From Sample Preparation to Data Analysis."  Workshop will be held July 23 -August 1, 2008 at The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO.

For more information go to:

www.proteomicstraining.org/NHLBI_main.htm or

www.proteomicstraining.org/documents/08_NHLBI_Brochure.pdf

New Consortium For Comparative Genomics Purchases Roche/FLX machine
The Consortium for Comparative Genomics within the Computation Bioscience Program of the University of Colorado Medical School has become a reality. Consortium Director Dr. David Pollock has identified the central objective of the consortium as being to catalyze activity in genomics and genomics-related research.

In December of 2007 a $500,000 Roche/454 FLX machine was purchased and delivered, as well as about $50K worth of auxiliary equipment. Technical training under the leadership of Christopher Korch will begin the third week of January 2008, followed by analytical/computational training during the last week of the month . First user samples are projected to process during the week of January 21, 2008.

For more information, contact David Pollock or go to:
www.EvolutionaryGenomics.com/CCG.html

CB Program Director Hunter Wins Pharmacology Department Faculty Research Excellence Prize
Dr. Hunter was recognized by the Pharmacology Department at its annual Awards Banquet for his outstanding research contributions during 2007. Dr. Hunter said that he would donate his $1,000 prize to the Computational Bioscience Program.

School of Medicine at UC Denver Awarded $2.5 Million to Train in
Biomedical Informatics
Grant from the National Library of Medicine will create nine fellowships at medical school
Denver, Nov. 27, 2006
Protein structure simulation. Data mining in genomics. A computer program designed to analyze published research findings and identify patterns and relationships. These are just a few of the exciting advancements in the field of biomedical informatics—a field that brings together computer science and medicine to advance research, improve health care, reduce medical errors, save lives and reduce costs. To assist in the development of this relatively new field in medicine, the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. National Library of Medicine to train nine students in its Computational Bioscience Program over the next five years.

“Essentially, this field didn’t exist until the human genome project was finished and now it’s a central part of how we make sense of genomic data,” said Lawrence Hunter, Ph.D., director of the program at the UC Denver School of Medicine and one of the founders of the field of computational bioscience. “The Computational Bioscience Program at the School of Medicine has come a long way in a short time. We began a formal program in 2004 and now we have been nationally recognized with the best programs in the world—programs at peer institutions like Harvard, Stanford and Yale.”

The UC Denver School of Medicine began offering a Ph.D. in computational bioscience in 2001 and a formal program was created in 2004 when the School’s Academic Enrichment Fund contributed $1.5 million to launch the program. Students in the program come from a variety of educational and professional backgrounds including physicians, biologists, computer scientists and engineers. Graduates leave the program with the expertise to join faculty programs in bioinformatics, medicine or computer science, or assume high-level research positions in government or industry.

The National Library of Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health, awarded $75 million to 18 programs for informatics research training. For more information regarding the grant recipients, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/GrantTrainInstitute.html.

The School of Medicine faculty work to advance science and improve care in their roles as physicians, educators and scientists at University of Colorado Hospital, The Children’s Hospital, Denver Health, National Jewish Medical and Research Center and the Veterans Administration Medical Center. The School is part of the University of Colorado Denver, one of three universities in the University of Colorado system. For more information, visit [this] Computational Bioscience Program web site or the UC Denver Newsroom at http://www.uchsc.edu/news.