Divulga-se o seguinte curso de Programação para Biologia Evolutiva, co-organizado pelo Doutor Rui Faria, investigador do CIBIO-InBIO. Este evento já vai na sua 4ª edição e é reconhecido internacionalmente.
Agradece-se divulgação.
Course on Programming for Evolutionary Biology
When: November 24th - December 12th 2014
Location: Bogota, Colombia; Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Application deadline: August 30th
2014
For the first time, this course is going to take place in the Americas. It is closely modeled after our successfully established
course in Leipzig, Germany.
“Nothing
in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution” (Dobzhansky,
1973). Today, evolutionary biology often involves
the analysis of an unprecedented amount of information and supports many
other disciplines, such as medicine (evolutionary medicine),
behavioural biology (evolutionary psychology), ecology, and information
transfer.
Scientists
have to analyze large datasets, which requires computational
programming skills to design and apply own ideas into customized
algorithms.
In
this intensive 3 weeks course, students will learn how to survive in a
Linux environment, get hands-on experience in two widely
used programming languages (Perl and R), and statistical data analysis.
The classes will be given by experts in the field and consist of
lectures and exercises with the computer. The aim of the course is to
provide the students with the necessary background
and skills to perform computational analyses with a focus on solving
research questions related to genomics and evolution. The philosophy of
the course will be “learning by doing”, which means that the
computational skills will be taught using examples and
real data from evolutionary biology for the exercises. During the
course, students will also propose projects of their own interest and
perform them as final projects in small groups under the supervision of a
teaching assistant. This summer school is open
for students from all countries and targeted toward PhD students and
postdocs of evolutionary biology or related research fields with no or
little programming experience who want to become proficient in
computational evolutionary biology in a couple of weeks.
The course takes place at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.