Short introduction to our intro bioinfo course

1. Introduction to Bioinformtics
For the Life Sciences

2. What are we going to do
 Course aim:
 To provide an overview of the bioinformatics field at the Utrecht Campus
 Show the wide diversity of this field. Who are the Utrecht Players
 Get hands-on experience in the Basic Bioinformatics concepts and challenges
 Show you how incredibly fun, useful and interesting this field is !

3. Setup
 Short lectures that introduce the topic and provide some theoretical background
 A lot of Hands-on playing with biological data
 Interactive! Ask questions and more questions.
 A pen and paper exam on the last day (open book).

4. Who
 Participating parties:
 UMCU
 UU
 Hubrecht
 Princess Maxima Center

5. Yes.. But who?
Dr. Wiegard Kloosterman
• Medical Genetics
• UMC Utrecht
Dr. Bas van Breukelen
• Coordinator
• Biomolecular Mass
Spectrometry and
Proteomics
• UU
• B.vanbreukelen@uu.n
• 030-2539761

6. Yes.. But who?
Dr. Henk van den Toorn
• Biomolecular Mass
Spectrometry and
Proteomics
• UU
Dr. Adrien Melquiond
• NMR Spectroscopy Group
• UU, UBC

7. Yes.. But who?
Dr. Joep de Ligt
• Dept. of Medical Genetics
• UMC Utrecht
Armel Lefebvre
• Information and computer
sciences
• UU

8. Yes.. But who?
Dr. Ies Nijman
• Head of Medical
Bioinformatics at Genetics
dept
• UMC Utrecht

9. Yes.. But who?
Dr. Bas Dutilh
• Integrative Bioinformatics
• Utrecht University
Prof. Dr. Berend Snel
• Theoretical Biology &
Bioinformatics
• Utrecht University

10. Yes.. But who?
Dr. Patrick Kemmeren
• Group Leader Bioinformatics
• Princess Maxima Center
Dr. Jeroen de Ridder
• Center for Molecular
Medicine, Section Genetics
• UMC Utrecht

11. Schedule (topical)
 Day 1-8 are all on the website
 Day 9: Research paper and discussion
 Day 10: Pen and Paper exam
 Exam, bring you book, notes and even laptop (only to use cocalc/elearning)