WEB03: Program
June 28, 2003 


  Overview
0830-0900  Registration 
0900-1110  Session 1: Shoba Ranganathan (Chair)
Plenary & 
Bioinformatics Education: Issues and Curricula - I
1110-1130 Break
1130-1250 Session 2: Shoba Ranganathan (Chair)
Bioinformatics Education: Issues and Curricula - II
1250-1330 Lunch Break
1330-1535  Session 3: Tim Littlejohn (Chair)
Bioinformatics Course Delivery: Tools and Infrastructure
1535-1600 Break
1600-1720 Session 4: Bruno Gaeta (Chair)
Pedagogy of Bioinformatics Education
1720-1730 Concluding Session: Shoba Ranganathan (Chair)
Closing Remarks: Mike Gribskov

  Session 1: Shoba Ranganathan (Chair)
0900-0930 Welcome to WEB03, Opening Remarks & Plenary
0930-1110 Bioinformatics Education: Issues & Curricula - I

0900-0930 Sylvia Spengler
NSF, USA		 Perspectives in Bioinformatics Education
0930-0955 Steven Jennings
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA		 An Integrated Program in Bioinformatics
0955-1020 Alex Isaev
Australian National University, Australia		 Bioinformatics for Students with Mathematical Background
1020-1045 Richard Hughey
University of California,  Santa Cruz, USA		 Bioinformatics Degree Programs at UCSC
1045-1110 W. Bret Church
University of Sydney, Australia		 The Postgraduate Bioinformatics Coursework Program at the University of Sydney

 

  Session 2: Shoba Ranganathan (Chair)
1130-1250 Bioinformatics Education: Issues & Curricula - II

1135-1200 Sonia Cattley, 
ANGIS, Australia		 Overview of Bioinformatics Education in Australia
1200-1225 Manju Bansal
Institute for Bioinformatics & Applied Biotechnology, India		 Bioinformatics Training - an Indian Experience
1225-1250 Ilan Samish
Weizmann Institute of Science, Isreal		 Bioinformatics Education in Isreal: Academic,  Private and Unique Retraining Programs

  Session 3: Tim Littlejohn (Chair)
1330-1535 Bioinformatics Course Delivery: Tools and Infrastructure

1330-1355 Cédric Notredame 
Lausanne University, Switzerland		 Bioinformatics for Dummies: empowering Biologists with Hands-on Knowledge
1355-1420
 Kaoru Fukami-Kobayashi
NIG, Japan 		 DDBJing and TERAKOYA: Educational Activities of CIB-DDBJ
1420-1445 Nicola Harte
EBI, UK		 The 2can Educational Resource at the European Bioinformatics Institute 
1445-1510 Jess Mar
EBI, UK		 Bioinformatics Education and the R Language
1510-1535 Nikola Kasabov
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand		 NeuCom - A Comprehensive Neuro Computing Environment for Teaching andf Research in Bioinformatics

  Session 4: Bruno Gaeta (Chair)
1600-1720 Pedagogy of Bioinformatics Education

1605-1630 Aviv Shachak
Bar-Ilan University, Isreal 		 Instructional Design Theories in Bioinformatics: An Application of Gagne's "Conditions of Learning" to Microarray Analysis Training 
1630-1655 Matthew Bellgard
Murdoch University, Australia		 Critical Analysis of ICT/Bioinformatics Learning Objectives for Students in Life Sciences 
1655-1720 Shoba Ranganathan
National University fo Singapore, Singapore 		 Achieving the Goals of Bioinformatics Education through the S* Online Courses

  Concluding Session: Shoba Ranganathan (Chair)
1720-1730 Closing Remarks: Mike Gribskov - President, ISCB