Invited Speakers: Hugh Salter (Course Director) is currently
Head of Genomics for Astra Pharmaceuticals AB at the new
Bioinformatics Centre in Lund, Sweden. He was previously
Manager of Oxford University’s Molecular Biology Data Centre
and before that at the Department of Biochemistry,
University of Stockholm, where he taught Bioinformatics as
well as researching on membrane protein molecular biology.
He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1990.
Sarah Butcher joined the Oxford University Molecular Biology
Data Centre as a Bioinformatics Computing Officer in December
1997. Her first degree was gained in Applied Biology from
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. She
received her PhD in cellular immunology from The National
Institute for Medical Research in 1992. She then gained five
years of postdoctoral experience at The Institute of Virology
and Environmental Microbiology in Oxford, working on diverse
human enteropathogenic viruses and on the phylogeny of the
Caliciviridae.
James Cuff is a PhD student working with Geoff Barton at the
European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton. He has a BSc in
Chemistry at Manchester University, which included a one year
industry placement at British Nuclear Fuels. He is working
on protein secondary structure prediction, mainly examining
structures for which the modern algorithms produce poor
predictions, with a view to create novel methods with an
enhanced performance. Much of the work so far has included
designing methods for automatic multiple sequence alignment,
building consensus models, and user interfaces.
Michele Clamp has a first degree in Physics from the University
of Oxford. She then went to Manchester University, firstly
for a PhD in experimental solid state physics and then a
post-doc in Biochemistry developing novel molecular dynamics
algorithms. In October 1995 she returned to Oxford to join
Geoff Barton's group in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human
Genetics at the University. At the beginning of December
1997 she moved to the EBI at Hinxton to rejoin Geoff
Barton’s group.
John Peden is the current Manager of Oxford University's
Molecular Biology Data Centre, and has been employed by the
MBDC since April 1996. He has a BSc. in biotechnology,
which was awarded by Dublin City University, and has a M.Sc.
in Molecular Biology (by research) awarded by the National
University of Ireland. He is currently writing-up a PhD in
Computational Biology on the multidimensional statistical
analysis of codon usage, which was completed at the University
of Nottingham and Trinity College Dublin. He has more than
five years experience in the field of Bioinformatics.
Chris Ponting is currently a Wellcome Trust Career
Development Fellow based at the Oxford Centre for Molecular
Sciences. B.A. (Oxford), M.Sc. (UBC, Canada), D.Phil.
(Oxford). His scientific interests are: a) structure,
function and evolution of domains in multidomain proteins;
b) inferring the emergence and proliferation of domains in
different phyla; c) prediction of domain, molecular and
cellular function using sequence-based informatics;
d) irregularities in domain folds.
Program:
Tuesday 14th july
Morning Continuing Education
09.00 - 09.30 Registration + Coffee
09.30 - 09.45 Welcome to Oxford
09.45 - 10.45 Session 1: Computing, Bioinformatics & Discovery - Hugh Salter
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 13.00 Session 2: Databases and Resources - Hugh Salter
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon Oxford University Computing Services
14.30 - 17.30 Practical 1: Unix, GCG and database interrogations
Wednesday 15th July
Morning Continuing Education
09.00 - 10.45 Session 3: Analysis methods and algorithms - Hugh Salter
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 13.00 Session 4: Sequence comparison methods - Hugh Salter
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon Oxford University Computing Services
14.30 - 17.30 Practical 2: Analysis of sequences and databases
Thursday 16th July
Morning Continuing Education
09.00 - 09.30 Session 5: Multiple Sequence Analysis - Hugh Salter
09.45 - 10.45 Session 6: Evolutionary Analysis - John Peden
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 12.15 Session 7: Protein Domains - Chris Ponting
12.30 - 13.00 Session 8: Analysing Multiple Sequences - Hugh Salter
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon Oxford University Computing Services
14.30 - 17.30 Practical 3: Multiple Sequences
Friday 17th July
Morning Continuing Education
09.00 - 09.30 Session 9: Codon Usage - John Peden
09.45 - 10.45 Session 10: Finding Genes - Michele Clamp
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 12.15 Session 11: Secondary Structure Prediction - James Cuff
12.30 - 13.00 Session 12: Finding Patterns - Hugh Salter
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon Oxford University Computing Services
14.30 - 16.00 Practical 4: Prediction from Sequence
16.00 Course close
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