UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2008

March 28-30, 2008

A. Malcolm Campbell
and Laurie Heyer
Biology Department, Davidson College

Part I - Introducing Genomics and Bioinformatics Early

• DNA Microarray Animations

  • Short Version and Long Version

• Paper Microarray Activity (Instructions) (teacher materials with answers)

• Wet Lab Simulation (ref. Campbell et al., 2006)

• Spot Synthesizer (ref. Campbell et al., 2007)

15 minute breakout session for hands-on work

Part II - Meshing Mathematics with Biology

• Correlation Exercise (Excel File, PDF Handout) (answers)

• Online Clustering (PDF handout)

• Math Module from Simulation (answers)

• GCAT and MAGIC Tool Overview (refs. Heyer et al., 2005; Campbell et al., 2006 and 2007)

• Genomics Lecture Course (Campbell)

• Bioinformatics Course (Heyer)

• Laboratory Methods in Genomics (Campbell)

15 minute break out session for hands-on work

Part III - A Fun Way to Integrate Biology, Math, CS, and Engineering

• Synthetic Biology

• Blending Math and Biology

• Open Wetware Lab Page

• iGEM Competition

Biology Department

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