1. Welcome to BINF704 Fall2015 Jeff Solka Ph.D. BINF704 FALL151

2. Course Philosophy This is the third attempt to design a colloquia course that can be executed remotely. A portion of the course is executed asynchronously – Your review of the talks that I have selected A portion of the course is executed synchronously – Your course presentation – Your review of your colleagues presentations I continue to respectfully solicit your patience and inputs as I continue to refine this approach BINF704 FALL152

3. Course Basics BINF704 Fall 2014 INSTRUCTOR - Jeff Solka Ph.D., jlsolka@gmail.com, 540-809-9799 OFFICE HOURS – By appointment. PLACE AND TIME - Tuesday from 5:30-7:00 pm PURPOSE of the COURSE This course serves to train students in understanding scientific presentations and publications while simultaneously giving them a rudimentary capability to craft a colloquium style presentation based on a journal article. EXPECTATIONS - Students are expected to attend online student presentations, to make a presentation online on a journal paper as chosen by them, watch 4 online presentations, and answer quizzes on 2 of them and provide write-up on 2 of them. Ideally the paper should be related to the student's ongoing research and the student is free to present on ongoing research. Alternatively students can present on a paper of the professor's choosing. Students will present in teams of 2 or more where each team will have 45 minutes to present including time for questions. These presentations will be coordinated remotely using Adobe Connect. It is expected that student's will allow 15-20 minutes for questions and that the question and answer portion of the talk will be thorough.. In addition students are expected to submit 2 in-depth write-ups, 7-10 pages, on external speaker presentations. One of these will be due by 6:00 pm October 15,2015 and one will be due by 6:00 pm Dec. 8, 2015. Finally students are expected to evaluate each of the student presentations on a 100 point scale as follows BINF704 FALL153

4. External Speaker Talks You Will Be Listening To Andrew Ng Deep Learning, Self-Taught Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning https://youtu.be/n1ViNeWhC24 Patricia Opresko DNA Damage Processing at Telomeres http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?18896 BINF704 FALL154

5. External Speaker Talks You Will Be Listening To Rodolphe Sepulchre Sensitivity Analysis of Neuronal Behaviors https://jh.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Vie wer.aspx?id=6e158ef2-42a6-4412-b03f- aa13f234c85a Daniel Rueckert Machine Learning Meets Medical Imaging: From Signals to Clinically Useful Information https://youtu.be/7vtpWbrVdDY BINF704 FALL155

6. Presentation Grading Rubric 25 pts - Presentation Content 25 pts - Organization of the Talk 25 pts - Student's Understanding of Material 25 pts - Question and Answer Session BINF704 FALL156

7. Course Grading GRADING - Students grades will be calculated in the following manner. 20% Quiz Grades 40% Course Presentation 40% Presentation Write-ups Grading will be on the following scale. 93-100 (A), 90-92 (A-), 87-89 (B+), 83-86 (B), 80-82(B-), less than 80 (C). Student averages will be rounded to the closest integer to determine final letter grades. BINF704 FALL157

8. Course Website and Blackboard Site http://binf.gmu.edu/~jsolka/fall15/binf704/bi nf704_fall2015.html http://binf.gmu.edu/~jsolka/fall15/binf704/bi nf704_fall2015.html Also I plan to use Blackboard to post and collect the quizzes on the talks BINF704 FALL158

9. Questions?? BINF704 FALL159