UC Merced Biology Workshop
From Education
Description
This workshop will introduce college faculty to various resources that can be used to prepare students to acquire computational thinking, modeling and quantitative analysis skills that have become essential to the practice of modern biology. Hands-on sessions with software for building and running dynamic models, finding sequence motifs, inferring phylogeny and predicting structure will be coupled with pedagogy and examples of integration into the biology classroom. Hands-on tutorials on first two days will focus on: NetLogo for agent-based and system dynamics modeling; MATLAB/Scilab for flexible graphing, analysis and numerical computing; Biology Workbench for bioinformatics; and Gromacs for molecular dynamics. The focus will then shift to group work to develop materials for the classroom, with additional sessions based on participant interest.
Register for this Workshop
To register for this workshop, please visit the Workshop Schedule page on the SC Education website. Scroll down to this workshop and then click the "Register" button.
Details
- June 7 - 13
- ucmerced-bio <at> sc-education <dot> org
Instructors
- Jeff Krause
- Masa Watanabe
- Ananth Kalyanaraman
- Jo-Anne Rodriguez
- Alaena Alilin
Local contacts
- Masa Watanabe
- Martha Narro
- Vicki Bryan
- Notes
- Martha Narro is EOT director for the iPlant Collaborative
- Vicki Bryan works on details of the iPlant Collaborative paying certain workshop expenses
