Southern California Bioinformatics Summer Institute Wendie Johnston, Beverly Krilowicz, Jamil Momand, Sandra Sharp, Nancy Warter-Perez

SoCalBSI Mission To identify and educate college students for successful careers in bioinformatics Part of NSF-NIH BBSI Project Grant number EEC

Goals of SoCalBSI 1) Software programs 2) Programming skills 3) Ethics 4) Career counseling 5) Research experience 6) Professional development 7) Professional relationships

Core Bioinformatics  Literature Searching  NCBI Model  Scoring Matrices  Dynamic Programming  Global vs. Local Sequence Alignment  Multiple Sequence Alignment  Molecular Life Science Databases  Protein Modeling  Microarrays  Proteomics Ethics  Privacy  Security  Human Genome Molecular Life Science  Central Dogma  Molecular Basis of Disease  DNA Primary Sequence  Protein Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Structure  Molecular Evolution  Signal Transduction Computer Science  Structured Programming  Data Structures  Algorithms  Complexity Analysis  Software Engineering Statistics  Probability Theory  Hidden Markov Chain  Bayes’ Theory  Expect Value  Rule of Counting

Achievement of Program Goals B. Krilowicz Project Evaluation -Research Seminar Speakers: -J. Sinsheimer -Eleastas -TBA - Student Recruitment -WebPage Development -Speaker Travel -Scheduling -Student Housing Coordination of Research Mentors: Caltech City of Hope HMRI UCLA USC Mannkind Allergan House Ear Nose and Tht JPL CSULA S. Sharp Research Training N. Warter-Perez Didactic Training W. Johnston Professional Development Program Coordinator Ronnie Cheng J. Momand S. Sharp Special Topics Instructors: -K. Venallis - S. Heubach -F. Zhou -R. Johnston

Who are you? 8 Males, 10 Females 8 graduate students and 10 undergraduates 12 from CA, 6 from outside CA Majors in Mol Bio& Micro, Bio, Bioinf, Mol Bio, Chem, CS, Bio&Math, Biochem, Bioeng, Biotech

Open hours Computer Workstations in Open Lab open from 8 am – 8 pm M-F Eating on campus-Yes Campus Escort Service (323) WiFi hot spots in the Student Housing area Lectures/Workshops

Course logistics Course Website (SoCalBSI)SoCalBSI Power point presentations In-class Workshops References

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