Workshop for Teaching Undergraduate Bioinformatics through Collaboration and Inquiry

Tentative Schedule of Activities

	Mon June 5	Tue June 6	Wed June 7	Thu June 8
8:00-9:00	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast
9:00-10:30	Molecular biology & Database Searching Overview	Sequence alignments/ BLAST Overview	Protein structure, databases & prediction Overview	Summary
10:30-10:45	Coffee&Tea	Coffee&Tea	Coffee&Tea	Coffee&Tea
10:45-12:00	Molecular biology & Database Searching Discussion	Sequence alignments/ BLAST Discussion	Protein structure, prediction Discussion	Workshop Survey
12:00-1:00	Lunch (Box lunch)	Lunch (Box lunch)	Lunch (Box lunch)	End of the workshop
1:00-3:00	Perl for Biologist	Phylogenetics /Paup Overview	Microarray data analysis Overview
3:00-3:30	Coffee&Tea	Coffee&Tea	Coffee&Tea
3:30-5:00	Perl for Biologist Discussion	Phylogenetics /Paup Discussion	Microarray data analysis Discussion
5:00-6:00	Tour of the campus
6:00-8:00	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner

The main focus of this workshop is on how to teach Bioinformatics for a group of undergraduate students from sharply different academic backgrounds.