Seminar Computational Systems Medicine (SS 2011)
General Information
Important Dates
| Submission of handout draft and preliminary talk slides: |
Wednesday, 22 June 2011 |
| Seminar schedule (details below): |
7-13 July 2011 |
| Location of all seminar talks from 7 to 13 July: |
Rotunda room 533 on the 5th floor in the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Campus E1.4, Saarbrücken |
| Location of guest talk on 13 July 2011 at 17:00: |
Lecture room 001 in the CBI building, Campus E2.1, Saarland University, Saarbrücken |
Description
This seminar can be attended by bachelor students (worth 5 CP) and master students (worth 7 CP) of bioinformatics. The language is English. The final schedule for the seminar will be decided in June.
For a successful seminar completion, every student is required to:
- Read about the topic assigned by the tutor.
The tutor provides the student with few main publications about the talk topic,
but the student is encouraged to look for additional information in the scientific literature.
To some extent the student can also negotiate the concrete topic with the tutor.
The student should be selective and restrict his talk to some part of the information covered by the publications.
- Write a handout on the topic in English.
Bachelor students have to write 1.5-2 pages of text summarizing the talk contents.
Master students have to write 2.5-3 pages of text summarizing the talk contents.
The handout (page size DIN A4, page margins 2.5 cm, font Times, 12 pt, single-line spacing) has to cite primary information sources and literature references.
It may contain some bullet points and additionally at most one insightful figure (size of at most half a page).
The strict deadline for handout submission to both the lecturer and the tutor is Wednesday, 22 June 2011.
The student will then receive feedback from the tutor before the talk. The tutor will print the
handout for the seminar.
- Contact and meet your tutor well before the final talk.
Every student can (and is encouraged to) communicate with the tutor and has to schedule a meeting
with the tutor to discuss the topic, the handout and the talk slides well before the final talk.
The handout draft and prefinal talk slides have to be submitted to both the lecturer and the tutor by
Wednesday, 22 June 2011.
- Prepare and give a talk on the assigned topic in English.
Bachelor students have to give a talk of 25-30 min.
Master students have to give a talk of 40-45 min.
Every talk is followed by a short discussion in English.
- Participate actively in the whole seminar and the discussions after the talks.
Each student has to attend all seminar talks and must inform both the lecturer and the tutor in case of unavoidable absence.
- Submit the final handout and talk slides.
Each student has to submit the finalized handout 1 day before the seminar talk.
The final handout updated based on the feedback received during the talk as well as the finalized talk slides have to be submitted 1-2 days after the talk.
The handout has to be a single PDF. The talk slides should be submitted in PPT or PPTX or ODP (other file formats on request, just contact the lecturer).
- Deliver a scientifically reasonable handout and talk.
The quality and contents of both the handout and the talk will be assessed, see presentation guidelines and useful advice below.
Presentation guidelines for seminar talks
Professor Lengauer provides guidelines for scientific presentations. They are available in English (DOC or
PDF) and in German (DOC or
PDF). They are really helpful! Please read them carefully before you start working on our talk slides.
Useful advice for seminar talks
Seminar Material
One publication relevant to the whole seminar is by Wist, A.D. and colleagues.
Further publications for each talk topic are available in this password-protected area.
Seminar Topics
| Date |
Time |
Topic |
| 07 July 2011 |
13:00 |
Flux balance analysis for systems medicine |
| 08 July 2011 |
13:00 |
Human disease classification and networks |
| 08 July 2011 |
14:00 |
Interaction networks and disease |
| 08 July 2011 |
15:00 |
Disease pathway identification using RNAi |
| 11 July 2011 |
12:00 |
Network-based drug discovery |
| 11 July 2011 |
13:00 |
Clinical biomarker discovery |
| 12 July 2011 |
16:00 |
Cause-effect relationships in medicine |
| 13 July 2011 |
13:00 |
Human gene expression using RNA-Seq |
| 13 July 2011 |
16:00 |
The role of miRNAs in human disease |
| 13 July 2011 |
17:00 |
Dynamic regulatory networks of gene expression |
