Graduate Education
Courses: Fall 2018
Courses in Systems Biology and Computational Biology
Chemical Biology |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
Related Courses
Computational Neuroscience: Circuits in the Brain |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |