
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
- May 31, midnight: Deadline for submission of draft written reports
- June 8: Written Feedback from supervisors
- June 24, 12 am – approx. 3 pm, C_FunGene: Oral presentations
- June 30: Deadline for submission of final written expose.