The Grant Lab

Current & Future Courses

• Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BIOINF525) - course directer (2016)

         This 2016 course is comprised of three modules covering:
         - Foundations of Bioinformatics
         - Statistics for Bioinformatics
         - Systems and Network Biology

• Introduction to Biocomputing (BIOS/BIOI/HG 606) (Sept 2015)

• Workshop in Structural Bioinformatics (Bergen, Norway) (Sept/Oct 2015)

• Fundamentals of Biomedical Informatics - course directer (coming in 2017)

         This course will be composed of six four week one credit modules, namely:
         - Foundations of Bioinformatics
         - Genome and Epigenome Informatics
         - Statistics for Bioinformatics
         - Systems and Network Biology
         - Data Science
         - Clinical Informatics

• Foundations in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BI 525) - course directer

• Introduction to Structural Bioinformatics (BI527)

         - Lecture Slides (PDF)
         - Lab session handout “Protein Structure Visualization and Small Molecule Docking” (PDF)
         - Lab session data files (LabDataBackup.tar.gz)

• “Advanced Database Searching: Sequence Patterns, Profiles and Hidden Markov Models” - Introduction to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BI 527).
  

• Computational Biophysics and Structure Based Drug Discovery - overview.

• Special Topics in Biological Physics: Natures Molecular Machines - Spring 2014.

Past Lectures & Courses

Below you will find previous course details along with links to select lecture slides, workshop material and software tutorials.

• “An introduction to molecular motors”, California State University, San Marcos, USA, 2011

• “Electrostatics and diffusion”, National Biomedical Computation Resource Summer Institute, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA, 2010.

• “Cytoskeletal transport systems”, California State University, San Marcos, USA, 2009

• “An introduction to biomolecular structure”, California State University, San Marcos, USA, 2009

• “An introduction to protein form and function”, University of California, San Diego, USA, 2008

• “Advanced methods for biomolecular simulation”, CCPB training workshop, University of Nottingham, UK, 2007.

• Computational Chemistry (postgraduate),

• Structural Bioinformatics (postgraduate),

• Biomolecular Structure (postgraduate),

• Chemical Equilibria (undergraduate),

• Protein Form and Function (undergraduate)

• Bioinformatics on the World Wide Web (undergraduate).

Laboratory Resources for Students

• Download my “4students.tar.gz” quick start archive,
• Unpack in your home directory and inspect the README file.
• See the lab wiki for further information.