Course Schedule

2025 Course Schedule

The 2026 Computational Genomics Course will be held June 22-26. The course schedule will be similar to the 2025 schedule below and will be updated soon.

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

6/23
MON

(9:00 – 9:15 AM)
Welcome & Intro

(9:15 – 10:30 AM)
Genome Assembly

Chris Fields
(lecture)

(10:45 – 11:00 AM)
Lab Introduction

(11:00 – 12:15 PM)
Genome Assembly Lab


(self-paced)

Lunch Polymorphisms & Association Tests
Alex Lipka
(lecture)
Polymorphisms & Association Tests Lab

(self-paced)
6/24
TUE
Clinical Variant Interpretation
Joe Farris
(lecture
Clinical Variant Interpretation Lab
Joe Farris
(synchronous
Attendee Reference
Answer Key
Lunch Bulk RNA-Sequencing Analyses
Jessica Holmes
(lecture) part 1 | part 2
Bulk RNA-Sequencing Analyses Lab

(self-paced
6/25
WED 

RNA-Seq in Hereditary Disease Diagnosis
Collin Osborne
(lecture & synchronous lab) 
part 1 | part 2 | part 3

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
6/26
THU
Clinical Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics
Yan Asmann
(lecture
Clinical Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Lab
Nicholas Dove, Yi Liu
(synchronous) 
Q&A
Lunch Regulatory Genomics
Charles Blatti

(lecture

Regulatory Genomics Lab

(self-paced) 
Resources

6/27
 FRI
Modeling Biology with AI
Matthew Redlon
(lecture
Modeling Biology with AI Lab
Sudarshan Shinde
(self-paced) 
Lunch Clinical Applications of AI
Irbaz Riaz, Ben Zhou
(lecture) 
Riaz | Zhou

Clinical Applications of AI Lab
Umair Ayub, Arsalan Naqvi, Samarth Rawal
(synchronous

 

On-demand content

Systems Biology
Charles Blatti
(lecture)
Exploring AI
Priyam Mazumdar
(lecture)
Microbiome Informatics
Lu Yang, Jun Chen
(lecture) part 1 | part 2
Variant Calling
Chris Fields
(lecture)