Agenda and Presentation Links

 

Amy Chang, ASM

 

Brad Goodner, Hiram College

 

Cheryl Kerfeld, Joint Genome Institute

 

At the completion of this session, participants will:

1.      Understand the basics of how an E-value is calculated

2.      Be familiar with how to manipulate experimental parameters in a BLAST search

3.      Be able to interpret BLAST results and use them to illustrate concepts in the curriculum

 

Brad Goodner, Hiram College

At the completion of this session, participants will:

1.      Know how to move beyond a BLAST search to confirm a full-length gene

2.      Confirm or change the position of a start codon

3.      Predict possible operons and regulatory features

4.      Work through examples of bringing BLAST and other bioinformatics tools together to design a course assignment or project

 

 

Kelly Gull, ASM

Kathleen Scott, University of South Florida

 

At the completion of this session, participants will:

1.      be familiar with the basics of protein evolution

2.      be able to identify motifs in amino acid sequences using a variety of web-available bioinformatics tools

3.      be able to align sequences and search the alignment to ensure that all conserved regions are correctly juxtaposed in the alignment

 

Tara Luke, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

At the completion of this session, participants will:

1.      be familiar with the basics of phylogenetic tree interpretation

2.      be able to identify and avoid common tree reading misconceptions

3.      be able to use a variety of web-available tools to build phylogenetic trees from molecular sequence data.