Bioinformatics Seminar
for Biology Master Students

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt / The seminar will be held in English language

During the seminar, students are grouped in teams, each team prepares a bioinformatics topic and creates a written summary report (expose) and presentation.

Learning Objectives

  • Gain knowledge about essential bioinformatics subfields, tools and methods
  • Understanding of bioinformatics tools and their approaches and methods
  • Key steps in the methods and their applications
  • Basic bioinformatics literacy – get an idea what tools there are and what they can be used for
  • Learn how to do literature research
  • How to read, understand and critically interpret a publication
  • Prepare a summary (written and orally) of a scientific topic

Key Dates

  • Friday, April 25, 9:00-12:00, C_FunGene, Seminar Room: Introduction and Assignment of Topics
  • Wednesday, May 7 (Zoom): General discussion of progress, breakouts with supervisors
  • Wednesday, May 21 (Zoom): Discussion of presentations with supervisors
  • June 8: Written Feedback from supervisors
  • June 24, 12 am – approx. 3 pm, C_FunGene: Oral presentations