BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:icalendar-ruby
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260806T222933Z
UID:5acbcf2f-4e5b-4502-b27e-4ab2595582cf
DTSTART:20180611T090000Z
DTEND:20180907T235959Z
DESCRIPTION:# Overview\n\n\n* **Duration**: 2 weeks\, 5 hours per week\n* F
 ree\n* Certificate of Achievement available on satisfactory completion\n* 
 **CPD Approval**: Royal College of Pathologists (10 credits)\n* **Start Da
 te**: The course is run ‘live’ for 2 weeks from the start date above. 
 Once this period is over there will be no live monitoring of the forums\, 
 but you can still join and complete the course during the remaining period
 .\n\n### Why join the course?\n\nJoin us in our quest to discover what mak
 es microbes dangerous. Use bioinformatics to probe genomes\, to explore an
 d represent DNA and protein sequences. Then\, use databases to find protei
 n sequences’ conserved domains and investigate their functions.\n\n### W
 ho is the course for?\n\nThe course will be of interest to undergraduates\
 , post-graduates\, researchers\, bioinformaticians\, biomedical researcher
 s\, microbiologists\, healthcare professionals and all those who are inter
 ested in learning about the underlying mechanisms of bacterial disease\, D
 NA sequences and protein data\, or how to use online analytical tools to p
 robe genomes.\n\nThe topics covered in this course are applicable to the g
 enomes of all organisms. It is not essential to have previous knowledge or
  experience in bioinformatics. Scientific terminology is explained. The op
 portunity to use online computational tools in the context of bacterial ge
 nomes will also be of interest to teachers and their 16-18-year-old scienc
 e and computing students.\n\n### What do people say about this course?\n\n
 "_Clear introduction of the – often viewed as complex – field of bioin
 formatics_." Mqondisi Tshabalala\, PhD student\, Institute for Cellular an
 d Molecular Medicine\, University of Pretoria\, South Africa "_Highlights 
 of the course were the investigations with the databases - these reinforce
 d the learning._" Dr. Alan McLintic\, Anaesthesiologist\, Faculty of Medic
 ine and Health Scientists\, University of Auckland\, New Zealand\n\n# Prog
 ramme and start dates\n\n### Course start dates\n\nThis course is repeated
  twice a year.\n\nNext start dates:\n\n* December 2018 (date TBC)\n* June 
 2019 (date TBC)\n\n### What topics will you cover?\n\n\n* Bioinformatics t
 ools\, DNA and protein sequences\n* Retrieving DNA and protein sequences f
 rom repositories\n* Databases for protein annotation\n* Inferring function
  from sequence\n\n### What will you achieve?\n\nBy the end of the course\,
  you'll be able to...\n\n* assess DNA representations and protein sequence
 s\n* perform searches in primary databases (repositories) and retrieve gen
 e/protein data\n* interpret different repository submission formats\n* inv
 estigate biological databases for research\n* identify the putative functi
 on of proteins based on their conserved domains\n\n# Educators\n\n## **Lea
 d Educators**\n\n### Dr Anna Protasio\n\nI am a researcher in parasitology
  and life sciences. I am passionate about bioinformatics and how we can us
 e these tools to answer questions in biology.\n\n### Martin Aslett\n\nI am
  the IT Manager for the Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scient
 ific Conferences team. My interests lie in bioinformatics and its applicat
 ion to microbial genomics.\n\n### Dr Christine Boinett\n\nI am a researche
 r in bacterial genetics and my interest is in understanding the developmen
 t of resistance in bacterial pathogens using next generation sequencing te
 chniques.\n\n## **Educator**\n\n### Matthew Dorman\n\nI am a graduate stud
 ent at the Wellcome Sanger Institute\, where I research the virulence and 
 the molecular genetics of bacterial pathogens as part of the Infection Gen
 omics programme.\n\n## **Programme Lead Educator**\n\n### Professor Nichol
 as Thomson\n\nGroup Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute\, interested i
 n bacterial evolution and the spread of infectious disease\; provides scie
 ntific oversight for this course.\n\nThe course also features interviews w
 ith two distinguished experts:\n\n### Dr Rob Finn\n\nTeam Leader of EMBL-E
 BI Sequence Families Team\n\n### Dr Claire Chewapreecha\n\nSir Henry Wellc
 ome Fellow and Lecturer\, University of Cambridge\, UK\, and King Mongkut 
 University of Technology\, Thailand.\n\n# What's Included\n\nWellcome Geno
 me Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences are offering everyon
 e who joins this course a free digital upgrade\, so that you can experienc
 e the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:\
 n\n* Unlimited access to this course\n* Includes any articles\, videos\, p
 eer reviews and quizzes\n* Tests to validate your learning\n* A PDF Certif
 icate of Achievement to prove your success when you’re eligible\n\n# CPD
  Approval\n\n\n\n
SUMMARY:Bacterial Genomes: From DNA to Protein Function Using Bioinformatic
 s
URL;VALUE=URI:https://coursesandconferences.wellcomegenomecampus.org/our-ev
 ents/bacterial-genomes-dna-protein-function-bioinformatics-online-jun18/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR