Curriculum

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