Courses in Systems Biology and Computational Biology

 

Chemical Biology

Faculty: Virginia Cornish
Email: vc114@columbia.edu
Department: Chemistry
URL: Vergil
Semester: Fall 2018
Place: Northwest Corner Building, T502 (Morningside Heights campus)
Schedule: T, TR 1:10-2:25 
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.

 

 

Deep Sequencing

Faculty: Yufeng Shen, Peter Sims, Chaolin Zhang
Email: ys2411@columbia.edu, pas2182@columbia.edu, cz2294@columbia.edu
Department: Biomedical Informatics
URL: Vergil
Semester: Fall 2018
Place: Irving Cancer Research Center Room 817
Schedule: Th 1:00pm-4:00pm
Description: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has become ubiquitous in biomedical research with numerous applications. This course will provide an in-depth introduction to principles of modern sequencing, key computational algorithms and statistical models, and applications in disease genetics, cancer, and fundamental biology. It will cover genome, exome, and transcriptome sequencing approaches. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the interplay between experimental design, data acquisition, and data analysis so that students can apply these powerful tools in their own research.

  

 

Genomic Innovation

Faculty: Tuuli Lappalainen
Email: tel2120@cumc.columbia.edu
Department: CMBS
URL: Vergil
Semester: Fall 2018
Place: TBA (Medical Center campus)
Schedule: Th 3:00pm-6:00pm
Description: Methods and algorithms for manipulating, processing, and analyzing large biomedical data sets.

 

 

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Computational Neuroscience: Circuits in the Brain

Faculty: Aurel A. Lazar
Email: aa1@columbia.edu
Department: Electrical Engineering
URL: Vergil
Semester: Fall 2018
Place: 833 Seeley W. Mudd Building 
Schedule: Tu 7:00-9:30
Description: The theoretical foundation of computational neuroscience.

 

 

Introduction to Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine

Faculty: Nicholas Tatonetti
Email: npt2105@cumc.columbia.edu
Department: Biomedical Informatics
URL: Vergil
Semester: Fall 2018
Place: 404 International Affairs Building
Schedule: M,W 4:10-5:25
Description: An introduction to the applications of informatic methods in biology, health care, and public health.

 

 

Methods III: Symbolic Methods

Faculty: Chunhua Weng
Email: cw2384@cumc.columbia.edu
Department: Biomedical Informatics
URL: Vergil
Semester: Fall 2018
Place: 20-200 Presbyterian Hospital
Schedule: Tu, Th 9:30am-10:45am, F 10:00am-11:15am
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: Vergil
Semester: Fall 2018
Place: 900 Sherman Fairchild LIfe Sciences Building
Schedule: F 12:30pm-3:30pm
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.