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Spring 2013
Fall 2012
| Course Title: | Methods of Computational Neuroscience |
| Faculty Name: | Aurel A Lazar |
| Email: | aal1 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Electrical Engineering |
| URL: | https://newcourseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=EEBME6020_001_2013_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2013 |
| Place: | TBA (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | M 7:00-9:30 |
| Description: | Formal methods in computational neuroscience including methods of signal processing, communications theory, information theory, systems and control, system identification and machine learning. |
| Course Title: | Design Principles for Biological Circuits |
| Faculty Name: | Predrag R Jelenkovic |
| Email: | predrag [at] ee.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Electrical Engineering |
| URL: | https://courseworks.columbia.edu/cms/public/mainpage.cfm?crs=ELENE6010_001_2013_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2013 |
| Place: | TBA (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | T 4:10-6:40 |
| Description: | Biological networks from an engineering perspective |
| Course Title: | Methods in Biomedical Informatics II: Computational Methods |
| Faculty Name: | Noemie Elhadad |
| Email: | noemie [at] dbmi.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biomedical Informatics |
| URL: | https://newcourseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=BINFG4002_001_2013_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2013 |
| Place: | TBA |
| Schedule: | TR 10:00 - 11:15 F 10:00-11:30 |
| Description: | Probabilistic and machine learning methods with application to the analysis of biomedical data |
| Course Title: | Statistical Issues in Microarray Data |
| URL: | https://newcourseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=BISTP8114_001_2013_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2013 |
| Place: | TBA |
| Schedule: | F 1:00-1:50 |
| Description: | Statistics of genome-wide association studies. |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Molecular Modeling |
| Faculty Name: | Richard A. Friesner |
| Email: | rich [at] chem.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Chemistry |
| URL: | https://newcourseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=CHEMG4232_001_2013_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2013 |
| Place: | TBA (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | MW 2:40pm-3:55pm |
| Description: | Computational modeling in chemistry and biochemistry. |
| Course Title: | Quantitative and Computational Aspects of Infectious Disease |
| Faculty Name: | Raul Rabadan |
| Email: | rabadan [at] dbmi.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biomedical Informatics |
| URL: | https://newcourseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=BINFG4016_001_2013_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2013 |
| Place: | Room 817 Irving Cancer Research Center (Medical Center Campus) |
| Schedule: | M 12:30-3:30 |
| Description: | This course is an overview of different theoretical tools that can be used to elucidate the different aspects of the evolution of infectious diseases, and, in particular, RNA viruses. |
| Course Title: | Molecular Systems Biology |
| Faculty Name: | Harmen J. Bussemaker |
| Email: | hjb2004 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biological Sciences |
| URL: | https://newcourseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=BIOCW4512_001_2013_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2013 |
| Place: | TBA (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | TR 1:10pm-2:25pm |
| Description: | Introduction to key technologies for probing the regulatory network of the cell using microarrays and next-generation sequencing. Strategies for interpreting and integrating these data using statistics, biophysics, and genetics. Students will learn the basics of the R language and perform analyses of real regulatory genomics data. |
| Course Title: | Computational Systems Biology: Proteins, Networks, Function |
| Faculty Name: | Dennis Vitkup |
| Email: | dennis.vitkup [at] dbmi.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biomedical Informatics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics |
| URL: | https://newcourseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=BINFG4015_001_2013_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2013 |
| Place: | Room 817 ICRC (Medical Center Campus) |
| Schedule: | Tue-Th 2-4 |
| Description: | Cellular networks, evolution and robustness of networks, simulation of networks, medical systems biology. |
| Course Title: | Computational Genomics |
| Faculty Name: | Itsik Pe'er |
| Email: | ip2169 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Computer Science |
| URL: | https://newcourseworks.columbia.edu/tbook-tool/viewTextbook.vtb?courseId=CBMFW4761_001_2013_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2013 |
| Place: | TBA (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | MW 4:10-5:25 |
| Description: | An introduction to the analysis of biological sequences and DNA microarray expression data using techniques from machine learning |
| Course Title: | Biological Sequence Analysis |
| Faculty Name: | Richard Friedman |
| Email: | friedman [at] cancercenter.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biomedical Informatics and Cellular, Molecular, Structural and Genetic Studies |
| URL: | https://courseworks.columbia.edu/cms/public/mainpage.cfm?crs=BINFG4013_001_2013_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2013 |
| Place: | Microcomputer Classroom 2nd floor Hammer Health Sciences Library (Medical Center Campus) |
| Schedule: | W 9:00-12:00 |
| Description: | A lecture/laboratory course for experimental biologists in running bioinformatics programs |
| Course Title: | Biological Networks - Biology W4400 |
| Faculty Name: | Dana Pe'er |
| Email: | dpeer [at] biology.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biological Sciences/C2B2 |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Fall 2012 |
| Place: | To be announced Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | TR 01:10-02:25PM |
| Description: | Methods and principles involved in studying the structure and function of molecular networks using genomic and proteomic data. |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Genomic Information Science and Technology |
| Faculty Name: | Vinay Varadan |
| Email: | varadan [at] ee.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Electrical Engineering |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Fall 2012 |
| Place: | To be announced (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | M 7:00-9:30 |
| Description: | An introduction to the bioinformatics for both life scientists and computer scientists/engineers. |
| Course Title: | Molecular Biophysics |
| Faculty Name: | Barry Honig - with Wayne Hendrickson, Arthur Palmer, and Arthur Karlin |
| Email: | bh6 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Fall 2012 |
| Place: | BB523 9/5/2012 - 11/19/2012; ICRC816 11/26/2012-12/12/2012 (Medical Center Campus) |
| Schedule: | MWF 4:00 - 5:30 |
| Description: | Methods and principles involved in studying the structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids, membranes and their macromolecular assemblies |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine |
| Faculty Name: | David Vawdrey and the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Informatics |
| Email: | vawdrey [at] dbmi.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biomedical Informatics |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Fall 2012 |
| Place: | To be announced (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | MW 4:10 - 5:25 |
| Description: | An introduction to the applications of informatic methods in biology, health care, and public health. |
| Course Title: | Proteomics Laboratory |
| Faculty Name: | Lewis Brown |
| Email: | lb2425 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biological Sciences |
| URL: | https://courseworks.columbia.edu/cms/outview/courseenter.cfm?no=BIOLG4260_001_2008_1 |
| Semester: | Fall 2012 |
| Place: | To be announced (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | R 1:10 - 4:00 |
| Description: | This course deals with the proteome. Emphasis will be on mastery of practical techniques of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and database searching for identification of proteins separated by gel electrophoresis. |
| Course Title: | Chemistry |
| Faculty Name: | Virginia W Cornish and Brent R Stockwell |
| Email: | bstockwell [at] columbia.edu; vc114 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biological Sciences |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Fall 2012 |
| Place: | To be announced (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | TR 1:10-2:25 |
| Description: | Approaches for discovering and optimizing chemical tools for measuring and perturbing biological systems. Topics include high-throughput assay development, chemical and genomic screening, protein microarrays, and the druggable genome. |
| Course Title: | Computational Neuroscience I: Circuits in the Brain |
| Faculty Name: | Aurel A Lazar |
| Email: | aal1 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Electrical Engineering |
| URL: | http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/courses/BMEB_W4020-overview.html |
| Semester: | Fall 2012 |
| Place: | 819 CEPSR (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | MW 4-6 |
| Description: | The theoretical foundation of computational neuroscience |
| Course Title: | Web enHanced Information Management |
| Faculty Name: | Gail Kaiser |
| Email: | kaiser [at] cs.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Computer Science |
| URL: | http://www.psl.cs.columbia.edu/courses/whim/ |
| Semester: | Spring 2012 |
| Place: | 1024 Mudd (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | T 11-12:50 |
| Description: | Evolving Web protocols, formats, computation and interaction models. Novel application domains enabled by the Web. Web-inspired concepts applied to non-Web venues. |
| Course Title: | Symbolic Methods in Biomedical Informatics |
| Faculty Name: | Chunhua Weng |
| Email: | cw2384 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biomedical Informatics |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Fall 2012 |
| Place: | Vanderbilt 5 Conference Room (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | MW 1:15-2:30 |
| Description: | Fundamental symbolic methods for health care and biological research decision support systems. Logic, controlled terminologies, knowledge representation, and natural language processing. |
| Course Title: | Massively Parallel Neural Computation |
| Faculty Name: | Aurel A. Lazar |
| Email: | aal1 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Electrical Engineering |
| URL: | https://courseworks.columbia.edu/cms/public/mainpage.cfm?crs=EEBME9070_001_2012_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2012 |
| Place: | TBA (Morningside Campus) |
| Schedule: | T 6:50 - 8:40 |
| Description: | Emulation of mental processes on cluster computers. |
| Course Title: | Biophysical Chemistry |
| Faculty Name: | Ruben Gonzalez and Angelo Cacciuto |
| Email: | rlg2118 [at] columbia.edu, aem5 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Chemistry |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Spring 2012 |
| Place: | TBA (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | TF 4:15-5:30 |
| Description: | Includes laboratory exercises in molecular computer graphics and in structural biological and chemical informatics. |
| Course Title: | Topics In Computer Science, I (Computational Methods for High Throughput Sequencing) |
| Faculty Name: | Itsik Pe'er |
| Email: | itsik [at] cs.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Computer Science |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Fall 2011 |
| Place: | 253 Engineering Terrace (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | M: 2:10PM-4:00PM |
| Description: | Computational methods and applications of high-throughput genome sequencing. Students of either computational or biological background would qualify. The class will also include a "blitz"-mode project: instead of the last month of weekly meetings, we'll have 2-3 concentrated days of the entire ~15 class participants working together, on campus, on a big project. |
| Course Title: | Statistical Methods and Genomics |
| Faculty Name: | Dana Pe'er |
| Email: | dpeer [at] biology.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biological Sciences/C2B2 |
| URL: | https://courseworks.columbia.edu/cms/public/mainpage.cfm?crs=BIOLG6001_002_2011_3 |
| Semester: | Fall 2011 |
| Place: | 800 Fairchild (Morningside Campus) |
| Schedule: | TR 9:00-11:00 |
| Description: | The statistical foundations of genomics |
| Course Title: | Methods in Biomedical Informatics I: Symbolic Methods |
| Faculty Name: | Chunhua Weng |
| Email: | cw2384 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biomedical Informatics |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Fall 2011 |
| Place: | Vanderbilt 5 Conference Room (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | MW 1:15-2:30 |
| Description: | Fundamental symbolic methods for health care and biological research decision support systems. Logic, controlled terminologies, knowledge representation, and natural language processing. |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Biophysical Modeling |
| Faculty Name: | Chris Wiggins |
| Email: | chw2 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics |
| URL: | http://www.columbia.edu/~chw2/ |
| Semester: | Spring 2011 |
| Place: | TBA (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | MW 11:00-12:15 |
| Description: | Modeling of biological systems using physical and informatic methods |
| Course Title: | Neural Encoding and Computation in Sensory Systems |
| Faculty Name: | Aurel A. Lazar |
| Email: | aal1 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Electrical Engineering |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Spring 2011 |
| Place: | Room 819 Schapiro (Morningside Campus) |
| Schedule: | M 4:10 - 6:00 |
| Description: | Models of neural encoding in sensory systems, including Vision, hearing, and smell. Spike Processing. Memory. |
| Course Title: | Statistical Aspects of Human Population Genetics |
| Faculty Name: | Prakash Gorroochurn |
| Email: | pg2113 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biostatistics |
| URL: | http://www.mailmanschool.org/courses/desc.asp?course=P8149 |
| Semester: | Spring 2011 |
| Place: | Room 627, 722 W. 168th St, (Medical Center Campus) |
| Schedule: | Monday 2:00-4:00 |
| Description: | Statistical population genetics, with a focus on human populations, using John Gillespie's 'Population Genetics: A Concise Guide' (Johns Hopkins: Baltimore) |
| Course Title: | Statistical Issues in Microarray Data |
| Faculty Name: | Iuliana Ionita |
| Email: | ii2135 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biostatistics |
| URL: | https://courseworks.columbia.edu/cms/public/mainpage.cfm?crs=BISTP8114_001_2012_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2012 |
| Place: | To Be Announced (Medical Center Campus) |
| Schedule: | F 12:00 - 12:50 |
| Description: | Statistics of genome-wide association studies. |
| Course Title: | Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology Journal Club |
| Faculty Name: | Susan Hodge and David A. Greenberg |
| Email: | seh2 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biostatistics |
| URL: | https://courseworks.columbia.edu/cms/public/mainpage.cfm?crs=BISTP8163_001_2012_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2012 |
| Place: | Room 627, 722 W. 168t St. (Medical Center Campus) |
| Schedule: | T 9:30-11:20 (Last Tuesday of each month) |
| Description: | Discussion of important recent papers in genetic epidemiological statistics |
| Course Title: | Genetic Analysis Laboratory |
| Faculty Name: | David Greenberg |
| Email: | dag2005 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biostatistics |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Fall 2010 |
| Place: | TBA |
| Schedule: | F 9-12 |
| Description: | A laboratory in statistical genetics |
| Course Title: | Symbolic Methods in Biomedical Informatics |
| Faculty Name: | Chunhua Weng |
| Email: | cw2384 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biomedical Informatics |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Fall 2010 |
| Place: | Vanderbilt 5 Conference Room (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | MW 1:15-2:30 |
| Description: | Fundamental symbolic methods for health care and biological research decision support systems. Logic, controlled terminologies, knowledge representation, and natural language processing. |
| Course Title: | Brain Circuits and Information |
| Faculty Name: | Aurel A Lazar |
| Email: | aal1 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Electrical Engineering |
| URL: | http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/courses/EEBM_E9070-overview.html |
| Semester: | Spring 2009 |
| Place: | 1300 Mudd (Morningside Heights Campus) |
| Schedule: | M 4:10-6:00 |
| Description: | Encoding with Neural Circuits |
| Course Title: | Computational Biology : Functional and Integrative Genomics |
| Faculty Name: | Andrea Califano and colleagues |
| Email: | califano [at] dbmi.columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biomedical Informatics |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | TBA |
| Place: | Medical Center Campus |
| Schedule: | TBA |
| Description: | An advanced course for students specializing in computational biology and bioinformatics: optimization, comparative genomics and phylogentics, functional genomics (microarray analysis) network reconstruction and data integration |
| Course Title: | Neural Modeling and Neuroengineering |
| Faculty Name: | Paul Sajda |
| Email: | psajda [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biomedical Engineering |
| URL: | |
| Semester: | Spring 2010 |
| Place: | TBA (Morningside Campus) |
| Schedule: | M 4:10 - 6:40 |
| Description: | Mathematical models of spiking neurons, neural dynamics, neural coding, and biologically-based computational learning. Architectures and learning principles underlying both artificial and biological neural networks. |
| Course Title: | Theoretical Genetic Modeling |
| Faculty Name: | Susan E. Hodge |
| Email: | seh2 [at] columbia.edu |
| Department: | Biostatistics |
| URL: | https://courseworks.columbia.edu/cms/outview/courseenter.cfm?no=BISTP8139_001_2004_1 |
| Semester: | Spring 2012 |
| Place: | Room 408 Hammer (Medical Center Campus) |
| Schedule: | F 9:30-11:50 |
| Description: | The theoretical foundations underlying models and techniques used in mathematical genetics and genetic epidemiology, with emphasis on likelihood-based methods and reasoning |