Computational Biology for Biology Educators
Jun 7 - Jun 13 2009 University of California, Merced
Merced, CA

This workshop will introduce college faculty to various resources that can be used to prepare students to acquire computational thinking, modeling and quantitative analysis skills that have become essential to the practice of modern biology. Hands-on sessions with software for building and running dynamic models, finding sequence motifs, inferring phylogeny and predicting structure will be coupled with pedagogy and examples of integration into the biology classroom.

To register for this Workshop please visit: the National Computational Science Institute Workshop page

For more information visit the University of California, Merced Workshop page.

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Genomics in Education: Gene Annotation and Comparison
JUNE 16 - 19, 2009, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
ST. LOUIS, MO

This event is an invitational "discussion and consensus-building" workshop that will bring together about 40 people who are integrating computational tools and genomics into research-based educational programs (i.e., courses in which students learn by doing research). Scientific sessions will focus on available bioinformatics and visualization tools, integration of bioinformatics with bench science, unmet needs in computational infrastructure (including easily accessed user interfaces), unmet needs in curriculum development, and methods for future collaboration. The goal is to create a community consensus about best targets for further development and best practices to achieve educational aims. The workshop organizers are Sarah Elgin (Washington U.), Dave Micklos (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Steve Slater (U. Wisconsin) and Sue Wessler (U. Georgia). This invitational workshop is full. The workshop program can be found here.

Please contact Martha Narro ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) for more information.