Translational Bioinformatics Workshop
Monday 9th – Friday 13th December 2013

A collaboration between the Biomedical Research Centres at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry

Places are now available on this five-day workshop designed to provide a balanced blend of inspirational talks from high profile speakers coupled with practical and interactive ‘how-to’ sessions.

On completion participants should be equipped with a solid conceptual framework of the application of genomics/bioinformatics to translational research and with introductory bioinformatics skills to start analysing genomics data.

Course aims

On completion participants should be equipped with a solid conceptual framework as well as the necessary skills to start analysing genomics data and use bioinformatics in translational research projects.

Course Objectives

Provide participants with knowledge and comprehension of the items below, as well as the capacity to start using this knowledge in translational research projects:

• Genomics and bioinformatics and the opportunities opened up by their application to translational research and patient healthcare.
• Modern genomics technologies and the nature of the high-throughput data generated: microarrays and next-generation sequencing.
• Bioinformatics and analytical principles, approaches, software and programming tools (R, Bioconductor) for the analysis of different types of data: genetic, epigenetic, transcriptional, proteomic.
• Analytical strategies and computational workflows
• How to explore associations between molecular and phenotypic/clinical information to discover disease associated genes and molecular biomarkers
• Concept and methodologies for patients stratification and personalized medicine
• How to link different molecular information to reconstruct an integrated view of the system under study: network modelling, pathway analysis and metagenes.
• Statistical considerations for study design and hypothesis testing.
• Data storage, analysis, integration, management and interrogation: IT technologies and challenges

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at PhD students and post-doctoral researchers who are already applying or are planning to apply genomics and bioinformatics techniques to translational research projects. The program is also designed to be of interest for academic as well as industry researchers.

To get the most out of this programme, you should hold a Masters level qualification in a scientific discipline with good foundations of genetics/molecular biology as well as familiarity with bioinformatics/genomics concepts and computer programming.

Registration

To formally register on the course, please visit the event webpage and complete the booking form. The registration fee includes lunches and catering.

For any queries regarding the workshop, contact BRCTraining@gstt.nhs.uk