organisation - the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

GTPB - THE GULBENKIAN
TRAINING PROGRAMME
IN BIOINFORMATICS
Pedro Fernandes Head
Head of Portuguese Bioinformatics Centre
The GTPB provides practical skills in Bioinformatics. The objective is to deliver
those skills with high efficiency and as much autonomy of usage as possible. It
consists of short, intensive training courses, held in a specialised training room,
installed afresh in February 2011. The courses are taught and fully documented
in English. The target audience varies slightly with the course themes. The majority
of the participants are Biologists in the PhD project preparation phase.
STUDENTS IN 2011
In 2011, 241 students attended the GTPB training programme, including 40 from
foreign institutions. Forty seven students are at the IGC, and 86 are in research
groups at ITQB/IBET (partner institutes of the Associated Laboratory).
COURSES IN 2011
All courses were organised by Pedro Fernandes.
GACT11 - Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits
19 - 21 January
Faculty: Arcadi Navarro, Hafid Laayouni (Universtat Pompeu Fabre, Barcelona, ES)
MDA11 - Massive Data Analysis(using Babelomics)
21 - 23 February
Faculty: Joaqui Dopazo, Javier Santoyo-Lopez (Centro de Investigacion Principe
Felipe, Valencia, ES)
AFADM11 - Automatic Functional Annotation and Data Mining
24 - 25 February
Faculty: Stefan Goetz, Javier Santoyo-Lopez (Centro de Investigacion Principe
Felipe, Valencia, ES)
IB11 - Introductory Bioinformatics
28 March - 1 April
Faculty: David Phillip Judge (Cambridge University, UK), Phil Cunningham (Kings
College, London, UK), Pedro Fernandes (IGC, PT)
MAPS11 - Model-based Inference of Population Structure
4 - 8 April
Faculty: Mark Beaumont (University of Bristol, UK), Lounès Chikhi (IGC, PT),
Bárbara Parreira (IGC, PT)
MEPA11 - Molecular Evolution, Phylogenetics and Adaptation
11 - 15 April
Faculty: Hernan Dopazo, François Serra (Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe,
Valencia, ES)
BPB11 - Bioinformatics using Python for Biologists
2 - 6 May
Faculty: Allegra Via, Fabrizio Ferrè (“La Sapienza”, IT)
RNA11 - RNA Bioinformatics
9 - 13 May
Faculty: Anton Enright (EBI, UK), Lars Barquist (Sanger Institute, UK)
NGSDM11 - NGS Data Management
26 - 27 May
Faculty: Matthias Haimel (EBI, UK), David Phillip Judge (Cambridge University, UK)
A course held in the new Bioinformatics Training Room. Interaction between an
instructor and participants.
IGC ANNUAL REPORT ‘11
GRADUATE TRAINING AND EDUCATION
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