Course Schedule

2024 Course Schedule

The 2025 Computational Genomics Course will be held June 23-27. The 2025 course will be similar to the 2024 schedule below. The 2025 schedule will be posted once finalized.

Please familiarize yourself with the applications we will be using in this course on the Course Preparation & FAQs page.

Classes are held from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (central time). 15-minute breaks will be given daily at 10:00 AM and 2:45 PM between the lectures and computer labs.

Live content

  8:30 – 10 AM 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM 12:15 PM 1:15 – 2:45 PM 3 – 5 PM
6/24
MON

Welcome & Intro

Genome Assembly
Chris Fields
(lecture)

Lab Introduction

Genome Assembly Lab

(self-paced)

Lunch Polymorphisms & Association Tests
Alex Lipka
pdf | pptx
(lecture)
Polymorphisms & Association Tests Lab

(synchronous)
6/25
TUE
Clinical Variant Interpretation
Joe Farris
(lecture
Clinical Variant Interpretation Lab
Joe Farris
(synchronous
Lunch Bulk RNA-Sequencing Analyses
Jessica Holmes
(lecture
Bulk RNA-Sequencing Analyses Lab

(self-paced) 
6/26
WED 
RNA-Seq in Hereditary Disease Diagnosis
Collin Osborne
(lecture & lab) 
Microbiome Bionformatics
Lu Yang, Jun Chen
(lecture
Lunch Basic Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics
Jenny Drnevich
(lecture
Basic Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Lab

(self-paced
6/27
THU
Clinical Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics
Yan Asmann
(lecture
Clinical Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Lab

(self-paced) 
Lunch Regulatory Genomics
Charles Blatti

(lecture
Regulatory Genomics Lab

(self-paced
6/28
 FRI
Exploring AI
Priyam Mazumdar
(lecture
Exploring AI Lab
Priyam Mazumdar
(synchronous) 
Lunch Clinical Applications of AI
Irbaz Riaz, YooJung Choi, Kenneth Kehl
(lecture

Clinical Applications of AI Lab
Umair Ayub, Syed Naqvi, Mihir Parmar
(synchronous) 

 

On-demand content

Variant Calling
Chris Fields
(lecture)
Systems Biology
Charles Blatti
(lecture)