Apply November 1, 2017 – January 31, 2018
The curriculum from the 2017 Summer Institute in Biomedical Informatics is shown below. We will publish the 2018 curriculum as soon as it becomes available.
Students spend all day Monday, Wednesday and Friday in lab and Tuesday and Thursday after class in lab, except where related offerings are of interest. Note, some classes do NOT observe the Tuesday/Thursday regular schedule. Lab times are not shown here.
Date |
Time |
Topic |
Lecturer |
---|---|---|---|
Week 1 | |||
Monday, June 5 | 9:30–10:30 | Welcome Breakfast | Group |
10:45–11:30 | Onboarding/Admin. Set-up | Group | |
Tuesday, June 6 | 9:30–10:30 | Introduction & Orientation | Churchill |
11:00–12:00 | Overview | Kohane | |
Thursday, June 8 | 9:30–10:30 | EWAS | Patel |
11:00–12:00 | Mining Large Data Sets: Provider Data | Palmer | |
12:00–1:30 | Lunch with speaker | Palmer | |
Week 2 | |||
Tuesday, June 13 | 9:30–10:30 | Case Study: Rheumatoid Arthritis | Liao |
11:00–12:00 | Microbiome | Huttenhower | |
Thursday, June 15 | 9:30–10:30 | Treasure Hunt | Kohane |
12:30–2:00 | GI:GWAS (with lunch) | Daly | |
Week 3 | |||
Tuesday, June 20 | 9:30–10:30 | Case Study: Deciphering the Genome: Community Driven Approaches | Rehm |
11:00–12:00 | Evolutionary Genetics | Sunyaev | |
Wednesday, June 21 | 8:30–5:00 | Precision Medicine 2017 Conference | |
Thursday, June 22 | 9:30–11:00 | Communication: Introduction & Methods | Jhaveri |
11:00–12:00 | Machine Learning for Cardiovascular Medicine | Manrai | |
12:00–1:30 | LUNCH with speaker | Manrai | |
5:30–7:30 | HMS Summer Programs Dinner for Summer Students; Keynote Speaker: Sara Bleich, PhD, HSPH & Radcliffe Institute | Group | |
Week 4 | |||
Monday, June 26 | 9:00–12:00 | Hands-on AWS Cloud to Conduct Scalable Research | Avillach |
Tuesday, June 27 | 9:30–10:30 | Population Surveillance | Brownstein |
11:00–12:00 | Healthcare Data Science | Schneeweiss | |
Thursday, June 29 | 9:30–10:30 | Topic pending | Church |
11:00–12:00 | Genomic Approaches to Drug Discovery | Golub | |
12:00–1:30 | LUNCH with speaker | Golub | |
Week 5 | |||
Tuesday, July 4 | CAMPUS CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY | ||
Thursday, July 6 | 9:30–10:30 | Matching Patients & Scientists: Algorithms to Link Patient Records & Facilitate Team Science | Weber |
11:00–12:00 | Single Cell Genomics | Kharchenko | |
12:00–1:00 | LUNCH with speaker | Kharchenko | |
Week 6 | |||
Tuesday, July 11 | 9:30–10:30 | Evolutionary Strategies to Counter Antibiotic Resistance | Baym |
11:00–12:00 | Mining Large Data Sets: Visualization Tools | Gehlenborg | |
Wednesday, July 12 | 9:30–10:30 | Case Study: Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Ananthakrishnan |
Thursday, July 13 | 9:00–10:30 | Communication: Results & Illustrations, Discussion, and Title and Abstract | Jhaveri |
11:00–12:00 | Deep Learning 101 | Beam | |
12:00–1:30 | LUNCH with speaker | Beam | |
Week 7 | |||
Tuesday, July 18 | 9:30–10:30 | Network Medicine | Silverman |
11:00–12:00 | Topic to be named | Park | |
12:00–1:00 | Graduate/BIG Program (with lunch) | Park | |
Thursday, July 20 | 9:30–11:00 | Meta Analyses | Raychaudhuri |
11:00–12:00 | Tuberculosis Drug Resistance and Transmission: How Genomics Can Help | Farhat | |
12:00–1:30 | LUNCH with speaker | Farhat | |
Week 8 | |||
Week of July 23 | Meet with Comm. Instructor as needed | ||
Tuesday, July 25 | 9:30–10:30 | Actionable Use of Provider Data | Brat |
Thursday, July 27 | 9:30–10:30 | Case Study: Autism | Kohane |
11:00–12:30 | Communication: Effective Oral Presentations | Jhaveri | |
5:00–6:00 | Career counseling with Zak | Kohane | |
Week 9 | |||
Monday, July 31 | 8:30–1:00 | Presentations Rehearsal | Jhaveri |
Wednesday, August 2 | 8:30–12:45 | PRESENTATIONS | ALL |
1:00–2:30 | CELEBRATION LUNCH | ALL | |
6:00–9:00 | CELEBRATION & CLOSING DINNER | ALL |