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RECOMB Bioinformatics Education Conference

By Alex Matthews

San Diego, April 27, 2009   -- The first RECOMB Satellite Conference on Bioinformatics Education, organized in March by the Calit2-based Center for Algorithmic and Systems Biology (CASB) at UC San Diego, is now history. RECOMB-BE showcased best practices and participants discussed existing challenges in bioinformatics education, with an emphasis on undergraduate education. The conference also promoted collaborations among educators in order to develop a stable curriculum that truly reflects state-of-the-art bioinformatics.

Now, the RECOMB-BE presentations are available for on-demand viewing below. [Windows Media Player and broadband connection required; click for information on the latest version, and on players for Mac and Linux users]. To watch each video, click on the image or highlighted video link.  

SATURDAY	MARCH 14
	Opening Remarks Ron Shamir, Sackler Professor of Bioinformatics The Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University Length: 2:48 [video]
	The Challenges in Bioinformatics Education: preview of the topics that will be discussed during the conference Pavel Pevzner, Director, CASB, UC San Diego Length: 11:01 [video]
	Facebook for Proteins: Mapping Protein Networks in the Cell Trey Ideker, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, UC San Diego Length: 32:23 [video]
	Haplotypes, Genotypes and Phenotypes Richard Karp, University Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley Length: 39:40 [video]
	The Bioinformatics in Motion Project Steffen Heber, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, North Carolina State University Length: 19:07 [video]
	Discussion Panel I Ron Shamir (moderator), Sridhar Hannenhalli, Dick Karp, Manolis Kellis, Mikhail Gelfand, Trey Ideker, Pavel Pevzner Length: 38:31 [video]
	Understanding Genomes from Their Evolutionary Signatures Manolis Kellis, Associate Professor of Computer Science, MIT Length: 33:09 [video]
	Survival of the Fittest: Detecting Adaptive Evolution Sridhar Hannenhalli, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Center of Bioinformatics Length: 30:52 [video]
	"All Your Base Are Belong to Us": Thoughts on  Genome Conservation Gill Bejerano, Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University Length: 36:24 [video]
	Alternative Splicing: Variant Splice Forms in Proteins that Control Transcription Terry Gaasterland, Scripps Genome Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego Length: 25:38 [video]
	Nine Years of Computational Biology @ Berkeley Michael Eisen, Ph.D. Scientist, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California at Berkeley Length: 40:08 [video]
	Discussion Panel II Trey Ideker (Moderator), Gill Bejerano, David Sankoff, Michel Eisen, Terry Gaasterland, Natasha Przulj, Amos Tanay Length: 47:23 [video]
SUNDAY	MARCH 15
	Sorting Gene Expression Matrices or, Linear Algebra Can Be Good for Something! Marton Vingron, Director, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, and Freie Universitaet Berlin Length: 32:54 [video]
	How Soon Will Everyone Be Sequenced? Serafim Batzoglou, Associate Professor, Stanford Length: 26:50 [video]
	Association Mapping for Mendelian and Complex Disorders Vineet Bafna, Associate Professor, Computer Science, UC San Diego Length: 33:53 [video]
	Detecting Selection from Sequence Data Alexey Kondrashov, Professor, University of Michigan Length: 49:32 [video]
	Tailoring Undergraduate Computational Biology Training to Diverse Student Needs: The Carnegie Mellon Experience Russell Schwartz,  School of Computer Science and Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon Length: 12:28 [video]
	Discussion Panel III Pavel Pevzner (moderator), Martin Vingron, Serafim Batzoglou, Vineet Bafna, Alexey Kondrashov, Chris Lee, Lior Pachter Length: 56:17 [video]
	What Is Epigenomics? A Mathematical Perspective on Teaching Bioinformatics?  Lior Pachter, Departments of Mathematics, Molecular & Cellular Biology and Computer Science, UC Berkeley Length: 28:23 [video]
	Whole Genome Doubling and its Consequences for Genome Organization David Sankoff, University of Ottawa Length: 28:35 [video]
	Do You Speak Genome? Deciphering the Language(s) of Genomes Shuba Gopal, Rochester Institute of Technology Length: 15:31 [video]
	Discussion Panel IV Serafim Batzoglou and Terry Gaasterland (moderators), Shuba Gopal, Dick Karp, Natasha Przulj, Ron Shamir, Mikhail Gelfand Length: 37:15 [video]
	How Can We Fight the Scourge of AIDS Drug Resistance? Christopher Lee, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA Length: 27:37 [video]
	From Computer to the Web Lab and Back: Comparative Genomics in the Discovery of a Family of Bacterial Transporters with a New Mode of Action Mikhail Gelfand, Moscow State University Length: 27:38 [video]
	From Network Topology to Biological Function and Disease Nataša Pržulj, Department of Computer Science, UC Irvine Length: 39:31 [video]
	Demystifying Genome Evolution (or: Superman vs. Kimura) Amos Tanay, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science Length: 29:24 [video]
	Closing Discussion Pavel Pevzner and Ron Shamir Length: 4:37 [video]

For more information, visit the RECOMB-BE Web site at http://casb.ucsd.edu/bioed/.