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

2. SoCalBSI Mission To identify and educate college students for successful careers in bioinformatics Part of NSF-NIH BBSI Project Grant number EEC-0609454

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Open hours Computer Workstations in Open Lab open from 8 am – 8 pm M-F Eating on campus-Yes Campus Escort Service (323) 343-3700 WiFi hot spots in the Student Housing area Lectures/Workshops

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

9. Questions?