Course Schedule

2025 Course Schedule

The 2025 Computational Genomics Course will be held June 23-27

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)