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Bioinformatics Education: Challenges in Teaching a Rapidly Expanding Field |
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| Jonathan Pevsner, Ph.D. | ||||||||
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Bioinformatics represents the interface of molecular biology and computer science, and may be defined as the use of computer algorithms and databases to analyze proteins, genes, and genomes. The field has many fundamental areas such as sequence alignment, molecular phylogeny, proteomics, and genomics. Bioinformatics as a discipline has been transformed by the recent generation of billions of nucleotides of sequence data. In this talk I will discuss challenges and strategies for teaching bioinformatics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. |
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| Jonathan Pevsner, Ph.D. | ||||||||
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Jonathan Pevsner received an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in the Dept. of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He pursued postdoctoral training at the Stanford University School of Medicine in the Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology. In 1995 he joined the faculty of the Kennedy Krieger Institute (Dept. of Neurology) and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Dept. of Neuroscience). His lab studies the molecular basis of childhood brain disorders and has developed bioinformatics tools for data analysis including DRAGON, SNOMAD, SNPscan, and SNPtrio. Dr. Pevsner is author of a textbook, Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics (2003). He was awarded Teacher of the Year (2001 and 2005) and the Professors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching (2003) at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. |
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