Post secondary research training and dissemination

Network Analysis Course, 2008. This course conveyed topics pertaining to the modeling, inference, and simulation of biomolecular networks in a manner accessible to non-computational biologists. The simulation of models aimed at predicting system behavior were introduced and demonstrated using a variety of experimental systems studied at the ISB. Finally, the course participants were introduced to several software tools that enable modeling, analysis, and visualization of networks.

Microfluidics Course, 2008/2009/2010. The Center funded the creation of the Microfluidics and Imaging Core. In 2008, the Center created a course to train on this new technology to reduce ‘barrier to entry’. A year later, we were pleased to be able to include participants based at ISB, the University of Kentucky, the University of San Paulo (Brazil), MIT, and Tampere University of Technology (Finland). Instructors included scientists from ISB, and from the laboratories of Caltech, University of British Columbia, MIT, and from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Several of the course instructors, scientists from ISB, Caltech, and NIST, participated in a workshop to discuss strategies to achieve global transcriptome measurements with single-cell resolution. Dissemination outside ISB.

The lectures and course material are publicly available https://corefacilities.systemsbiology.net/twiki/bin/view/Microfluidics/Courses.

Undergraduate Studies in Systems Biology, 2007/2008/2009/2010. An “Introduction to Systems Biology and Quantitative Approaches to Biomedical Sciences" course is offered to undergraduate students at the University of Washington. The course is intended to act as a bridge from undergraduate to graduate research in systems biology. The course is offered, for credit, in the winter quarter. Dissemination outside ISB.

Introduction to Systems Biology, 2007/2008/2009/2010. This one-week course introduces and develops the skills and concepts necessary for comprehension and application of modern systems biology approaches to research problems. Sessions are dedicated to understanding the development of technologies, as driven by the central research problem. As a result of the course, each student will have the knowledge to complete a research outline that could form the core of a systems-based grant application. Dissemination outside ISB.

Proteomics Informatics Course, 2007/2008/2009/2010. This five day course teaches the proteomics informatics tools available to process tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) data. The course includes a brief overview of the MS/MS database. A series of teaching modules that include both lecture and hands-on tutorials are taught on the Trans Proteomic Pipeline (TPP) tools and quantification tools for ICAT, iTRAQ, SILAC. Also included in this course are education modules on how to use PeptideAtlas, PIPE, Corra (MS1 workflow), and ATAQS (MRM workflow). Dissemination outside ISB.