TEACHING Schedule AY 2009-2010

Biol 310

Statistical Tables: tablepack.pdf Glossary

Excel Templates: descriptive.xls ANOVA.xls Chisquare.xls

regression.xls ANCOVA.xls

DATE	TOPIC	READING
M-Sep 14	Course Introduction	310syllabus.PDF
T-Sep 15	Introduction to Statistical Computing/Notation	Notation.pdf
W-Sep 16	Scientific Methodology & Writing	310-1.PDF
TH-Sep 17	Tables & Figures	Graph.pdf
M-Sep 21	Experimental Design	310-2.PDF
T-Sep 22	Formation of Research Groups/Project Brainstorming
W-Sep 23	Descriptive Statistics	310-3.PDF
TH-Sep 24	Descriptive Statistics/QUIZ 1
M-Sep 28	Project Time
T-Sep 29	Group Meetings
W-Sep 30	Normal Distribution	310-4.PDF
TH-Oct 1	Project time/Project Proposals Due/work on prob set 4
M-Oct 5	Hypothesis Testing	310-5.PDF
T-Oct 6	Project time
W-Oct 7	Paired Comparisons	310-6.PDF Class.xls
TH-Oct 8	Project time
M-Oct 12	EXAM I
T-Oct 13	TAKE HOME EXAM DUE @ 2:30PM	Exam1TH.pdf
W-Oct 14	ANOVA	310-7.PDF
TH-Oct 15	ANOVA
M-Oct 19	Post ANOVA Multiple Comparisons-SNK	310-8.PDF
T-Oct 20	Post ANOVA SNK/Two-Way ANOVA	310-9.PDF
W-Oct 21	Nonparametric Statistics	310-10.PDF
TH-Oct 22	Project time
M-Oct 26	Contingency Tables/QUIZ 2
T-Oct 27	Project Time
W-Oct 28	Correlation & Regression	310-11.PDF
TH-Oct 29	Correlation & regression
M-Nov 2	Project Time
T-Nov 3	ANCOVA & SNK	310-12.pdf Supplement
W-Nov 4	EXAM II (covers course material from 10/14 ’Äì 10/29)	Sample exam
TH-Nov 5	TAKE HOME EXAM II DUE @ 2:30PM
M-Nov 9	Project time
T-Nov 10	Project time
W-Nov 11	Holiday-Veterans Day
TH-Nov 12	First Draft of Paper Due/Peer Review Session	Meet in SCI I room 125
M-Nov 16	Final Draft of Paper Due
	MEET IN SCI 125 for PRESENTATIONS
T-Nov 17	Research Presentations-Group PowerPoint	Presentation Guidelines & schedule
W-Nov 18	Research Presentations cont./ TAKE HOME FINAL EXAM
TH-Nov 19	TAKE HOME FINAL EXAM DUE @ 2:30PM
M-Nov 23	FINAL EXAM 2:00-4:30PM in SCI 125

SCI 477/Biol 505: Bioinformatics/Exploring Genomes

Main course website (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI)

Syllabus

DATE	TOPIC	READING
M-Sep 14	Course Introduction
W-Sep 16	Genetics Review I	Handout
M-Sep 21	Introduction to Genetic Databases	Tutorial: pp. 1-5
W-Sep 23	Genetics Review II	Handout
M-Sep 28	Learning to Use Entrez & Blast	Tutorial: pp. 6-15
W-Sep 30	Pubmed
M-Oct 5	OMIM & Huntington Disease: answer the questions at the end of the tutorial.	Tutorial: pp. 26-29
W-Oct 7	Genetic Diseases/Huntington Disease
M-Oct 12	EXAM I will post on my website by 4:30PM	Exam1.pdf
W-Oct 14	Genome Anatomy
M-Oct 19	Finding Conserved Domains	Tutorial: pp. 30-33
W-Oct 21	ClustalX & DNA Sequence Alignment	MSA.PDF
M-Oct 26	Clusters of Orthologous Groups	Tutorial: pp. 34-36
W-Oct 28	Phylogenetics / MEGA Tutorial
M-Nov 2	Protein Structure / Protein Structure Analysis (all meet in lab)	Tutorial: pp. 37-44
W-Nov 4	Molecular Population Genetics/Project Instructions
M-Nov 9	Environmental Genomics ’Äì NOTHING TO TURN IN, DO TUTORIAL ON YOUR OWN-NO NEED TO MEET TONIGHT	Tutorial: pp. 55-58
	PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS **NEW 11/17** Detailed MEGA Instructions	For those who need additional help with non-pro geneious
W-Nov 11	Holiday-No Class
M-Nov 16		Tutorial: pp. 45-49
W-Nov 18	EXAM II due W-Nov25 by 10:00am (same as projects)	Exam2.pdf
W-Nov 25	PROJECTS DUE BY 10:00AM