Course Schedule
2026 Course Schedule
The 2026 Computational Genomics Course will be held June 22-26.
Please familiarize yourself with the applications we will be using in this course on the Course Preparation & FAQs page.
Classes are held from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM (central time). 15-minute breaks will be given daily at 10:30 AM and 2:45 PM between the lectures and computer labs.
Live content
| 9:00 – 10:30 AM | 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM | 12:15 PM | 1:15 – 2:45 PM |
3:00 – 4:30 PM |
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| 6/22 MON |
(9:00 – 9:15 AM) (9:15 – 10:30 AM) |
(10:45 – 11:00 AM) (11:00 – 12:15 PM) |
Lunch | Polymorphisms & Association Tests Tiago Bresolin (lecture) |
Polymorphisms & Association Tests Lab Edgar Caballero Vargas (self-paced) |
| 6/23 TUE |
Clinical Variant Interpretation Joe Farris (lecture) |
Clinical Variant Interpretation Lab (synchronous) |
Lunch | Bulk RNA-Sequencing Analyses Jessica Holmes (lecture) Part 1 | Part 2 |
Bulk RNA-Sequencing Analyses Lab (self-paced) |
| 6/24 WED |
RNA-Seq in Hereditary Disease Diagnosis |
Long Read Sequencing Jagadheshwar Balan, Jesse Walsh (lecture & synchronous lab) |
Lunch | Basic Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Jenny Drnevich (lecture) Part 1 | Part 2 |
Basic Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Lab (self-paced) |
| 6/25 THU |
Clinical Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Yan Asmann (lecture) |
Clinical Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Lab Nicholas Dove, Yi Liu (synchronous) |
Lunch | Regulatory Genomics Charles Blatti (lecture) |
Regulatory Genomics Lab |
| 6/26 FRI |
Modeling Biology with AI Jake Matras, Josh Meehl, Bridget Toomey (lecture) |
Modeling Biology with AI Lab Eman Abdelatif (self-paced) |
Lunch |
Clinical AI: Past, Present, Future Fundamentals of Large Language Models and Clinical reasoning capabilities |
Clinical Applications of AI Lab |
On-demand content
| Systems Biology Charles Blatti slides | lecture |
Exploring AI Priyam Mazumdar slides | lecture |
Microbiome Informatics Lu Yang, Jun Chen slides 1 | lecture 1 slides 2 | lecture 2 |
Variant Calling Chris Fields slides | lecture |
| Polymorphisms & Association Tests Alex Lipka slides | lecture 1 | lecture 2 |
Modeling Biology with AI Matthew Redlon slides | lecture |