Courses in Systems Biology and Computational Biology

 

Chemical Biology

Faculty: Virginia Cornish
Email: vc144@columbia.edu
Department: Chemistry
URL: https://courseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=CHEMW4312_001_2014_3
Semester: Fall 2014
Place: TBA (Morningside Heights Campus)
Schedule: T, R 1:10 - 2:25 PM (10/16/14 - 12/4/14)
Description: Approaches for discovering and optimizing chemical tools for measuring and perturbing biological systems. Topics include high-throughput assay development, chemical and genomic screening, protein microarrays, and the druggable genome.

 

 

Introduction to Genomic Information Science and Technology

Faculty: Dimitris Anastassiou
Email: anastas@ee.columbia.edu
Department: Electrical Engineering
URL: https://courseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=ECBME4060_001_2014_3
Semester: Fall 2014
Place: TBA (Morningside Heights Campus)
Schedule: M 7:00 - 9:30 PM
Description: An introduction to the bioinformatics for both life scientists and computer scientists/engineers.

 

 

Molecular Biophysics

Faculty: Barry Honig, with Wayne Hendrickson, Arthur Palmer, and Arthur Karlin
Email: bh6@columbia.edu
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
URL: https://courseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=BCHMG4250_001_2014_3
Semester: Fall 2014
Place: Black 523 (9/3/2014-11/17/2014); ICRC 816 (11/19/2014-12/15/2014) (Medical Center Campus)
Schedule: M, W,  F 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Description: Methods and principles involved in studying the structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids, membranes, and their macromolecular assemblies.

 

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Computational Neuroscience I: Circuits in the Brain

Faculty: Aurel A. Lazar
Email: aal1@columbia.edu
Department: Electrical Engineering
URL: http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/courses/BMEB_W4020/2014
Semester: Fall 2014
Place: 415 Shapiro (Morningside Heights Campus)
Schedule: M 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Description: The theoretical foundation of computational neuroscience.

 

 

Introduction to Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine

Faculty: David Vawdrey and the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Informatics
Email: dkv2101@columbia.edu
Department: Biomedical Informatics
URL: https://courseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=BINFG4001_001_2014_3
Semester: Fall 2014
Place: TBA (Morningside Heights Campus)
Schedule: M, W 4:10 - 5:25 PM
Description: An introduction to the applications of informatic methods in biology, health care, and public health.

 

 

Methods in Biomedical Informatics I: Symbolic Methods

Faculty: Chunhua Weng
Email: cw2384@columbia.edu
Department: Biomedical Informatics
URL: https://courseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=BINFG4003_001_2014_3
Semester: Fall 2014
Place: TBA (Medical Center Campus)
Schedule: M, W 2:00 - 3:30 PM; F 11:00 - 12:30 PM
Description: Fundamental symbolic methods for health care and biological research decision support systems. Logic, controlled terminologies, knowledge representation, and natural language processing.

 

 

Proteomics Laboratory

Faculty: Lewis Brown
Email: lb2425@columbia.edu
Department: Biological Sciences
URL: URL to come
Semester: Fall 2014
Place: TBA (Morningside Heights Campus)
Schedule: T 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Description: This course deals with the proteome. Emphasis will be on mastery of practical techniques of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and database searching for identification of proteins separated by gel electrophoresis.