2014 SACNAS Professional Development Session
Friday, October 17 8:30 – 10:00 AM LACC 405
Are you interested in computational biology or bioinformatics research? This session is open to any individual (undergraduate, graduate student, postdoc, professional) who would like to discuss this broad field.
We will discuss how to get started learning (or improve) technical and quantitative skills important in computational biology––such as math/statistics, programming, and version control. The session will include examples of research questions, specifically mathematical modeling of infectious disease and estimating the Tree of Life.
Agenda
- Speaker Introductions: Research questions and background.
- Discussion: What is computational biology/bioinformatics?
- Research Examples:
- Modeling the spread of infectious disease.
- Automated and reproducible phylogenetic analyses.
- Discussion: Q & A and Recommendations
Presentation slides
Speakers
Tracy Heath, PhD
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University (Jan. 2015)
macroevolution, molecular evolution, phylogenetics, Bayesian inference
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of California, Merced
human evolution, population genomics, adaptation
Conner Sandefur, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
computational modeling of airway surface liquid regulation
Felipe Zapata, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Brown University
evolution, phylogenetics, systematics, biodiversity