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Welcome to BINF704 Fall2014!!

Welcome to BINF704 Fall2014!!. Jeff Solka Ph.D. Course Philosophy. This is the first attempt to design a colloquia course that can be executed remotely. A portion of the course is executed asynchronously Your review of the talks that I have selected

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Welcome to BINF704 Fall2014!!

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  1. Welcome to BINF704 Fall2014!! Jeff Solka Ph.D. BINF704_FALL14

  2. Course Philosophy • This is the first attempt to design a colloquia course that can be executed remotely. • A portion of the course is executed asynchronously • Your review of the talks that I have selected • A portion of the course is executed synchronously • Your course presentation • Your review of your colleagues presentations • I respectfully solicit your patience and inputs during this initial deployment BINF704_FALL14

  3. Course Basics • BINF704 Fall 2014 • INSTRUCTOR - Jeff Solka Ph.D., jlsolka@gmail.com, 540-809-9799 • OFFICE HOURS – By appointment.PLACE AND TIME - Tuesday from 5:30-7:00 pm PURPOSE of the COURSEThis course serves to train students in understanding scientific presentations and publications while simultaneously giving them a rudimentary capability to craft a colloquium style presentation based on a journal article.EXPECTATIONS - Students are expected to attend online student presentations, to make a presentation online on a journal paper as chosen by them, watch 7 online presentations, and answer quizzes on 5 of them and provide write-up on 2 of them. Ideally the paper should be related to the student's ongoing research and the student is free to present on ongoing research. Alternatively students can present on a paper of the professor's choosing. Students will present in teams of 2 or more where each team will have 45 minutes to present including time for questions. These presentations will be coordinated remotely using Adobe Connect. It is expected that student's will allow 15-20 minutes for questions and that the question and answer portion of the talk will be thorough.. In addition students are expected to submit 2 in-depth write-ups, 7-10 pages, on external speaker presentations. One of these will be due by 6:00 pm October 15,2014 and one will be due by 6:00 pm Dec. 6, 2014. Finally students are expected to evaluate each of the student presentations on a 100 point scale as follows WOULD YOU BE OK WITH MOVING THE START TIME TO 5:00? BINF704_FALL14

  4. External Speaker Talks You Will Be Listening To Warren M. GrillProfessor, Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of EngineeringDuke Institute for Brain Sciences"Temporal Patterns of Deep Brain Stimulation: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Innovation" http://jhupilot.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ea218957-ce38-4c98-adba-6ec92930abb5 Claire J. TomlinEECS, UC Berkeley"Data-driven identification of genetic regulatory networks in cancer" http://jhupilot.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default.aspx?id=429fce99-774e-4283-9633-b940de851669 BINF704_FALL14

  5. External Speaker Talks You Will Be Listening To Steven L. Salzberg **Director, Center for Computational BiologyMcKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"Computational Challenges of Next-Generation Genome Sequence Analysis" http://jhupilot.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default.aspx?id=73ce81d0-7383-489e-a6f9-b0e127d6e530 Andrew Post, MD, PhD,Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University"Bright ideas lurking in clinical data: finding the meaning in medical records for research and quality" http://webcast.jhu.edu/Mediasite/Play/fcf92fd19a4d440286bd7f5b80e91e941d BINF704_FALL14

  6. External Speaker Talks You Will Be Listening To Mark Musen, M.D., Ph.D.Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford University"Philosophy and reason as elements of computer-based decision support: A plea to stop searching for our keys only where the light is" http://webcast.jhu.edu/Mediasite/Play/d347c9505a154ad8bea73f9b2fa24f2d1d Nicholas J. Schork, PhDScripps/UCSD"Enabling Genomic and Individualized Medicine: Strategies and Challenges" http://webcast.jhu.edu/Mediasite/Play/30b8c36fb0194f8ab75eb6f037b77b8d1d BINF704_FALL14

  7. External Speaker Talks You Will Be Listening To Bonnie Berger Ph.D. “Computational Biology in the 21st Century: Making Sense out of Massive Data” https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=COMPUTATIONAL+BIOLOGY+IN+THE+21RST+CENTURY%3A+making+sense+out+of+massive+data&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 BINF704_FALL14

  8. Presentation Grading Rubric 25 pts - Presentation Content 25 pts - Organization of the Talk 25 pts - Student's Understanding of Material 25 pts - Question and Answer Session BINF704_FALL14

  9. Course Grading GRADING - Students grades will be calculated in the following manner.20% Quiz Grades40% Course Presentation40% Presentation Write-upsGrading will be on the following scale. 93-100  (A), 90-92 (A-), 87-89 (B+), 83-86 (B), 80-82(B-), less than 80 (C). Student averages will be rounded to the closest integer to determine final letter grades. BINF704_FALL14

  10. Course Website and Blackboard Site • http://binf.gmu.edu/~jsolka/fall14/binf704/binf704_fall2014.html • Also I plan to use Blackboard to post and collect the quizzes on the talks BINF704_FALL14

  11. Questions?? BINF704_FALL14

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