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From YouTube: Education & Workforce WG | University of Delaware's Center of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
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November 2021
Graduate Programs at University of Delaware's Center of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Presenter: Dr. Karen Hoober; University of Delaware
A
Hello,
everyone
can
you
I
just
shared
my
slides.
Are
you
somebody
told
me
yeah
good,
so
thank
you.
Amazing
amazing
opportunities.
Lee
appreciate
it.
I'm
sure,
there's
ways
that
we
can
partner
as
well.
I
am
dr
karen
huber,
I'm
the
associate
director
for
graduate
education
and
outreach
at
university
of
delaware
for
the
center
of
bioinformatics
and
computational
biology,
so
hello
from
the
cold
northeast.
It
is
sunny
today
traveling
to
work
early
on
in
my
career.
A
I
went
through
three
states
to
get
there
and
one
of
the
things
I
did
was
cross
the
mason-dixon
line,
so
I
think
ud
is
considered
in
the
south
big
data
hub,
but
I
feel
like
we're
northeast,
especially
today's
today's
weather.
So
anyway,
I
also
wanted
to
mention,
because
I'm
sure
some
of
you
who
have
interacted
with
her
dr
kathy
wu
is
the
director
for
cbcb
and
just
recently
I'll
mention
it
in
a
minute.
More
recently,
we
have
organized
the
data
science
institute
at
university
of
delaware
and
she's.
A
Also
the
director
of
that-
and
I
am
the
director
for
the
workforce-
development
for
dsi,
so
hello
from
newark
delaware.
I
did.
Let
me
see
if
this
advances-
yes,
so
just
briefly
the
mission
of
the
center
for
bioinformatics,
and
I
know
that
this
is
similar
to
your
educational
goals
as
well,
and
that
is
to
promote,
coordinate
and
support
interdisciplinary
activities
in
bioinformatics
and
computational
biology,
along
with
that,
so
cbcb
was
founded
at
delaware
in
2010,
so
our
educational
platform
started
at
that
point.
A
So
we
are
delighted
to
be
a
part
of
a
1.86
million
dollar
campus
or
building
that
was
was
constructed
during
covid
and
then
nobody
occupied
it.
But
we
are
delighted
to
be
in
a
very
new
facility
that
is
embarking
on
data
science
and
and
research.
That's
happening
biomedical
research,
that's
happening
across
campus.
A
We
also
another
one
of
his
initiatives
was
to
increase
our
data
science
platform
so
two
years
ago
or
two
and
a
half
years
ago,
kathy
was
highly
recruited
to
be
the
founding
director
for
our
data
science
institute
and,
as
you
can
imagine,
it
is
an
interdisciplinary
research
collaboration.
That's
happening
across
campus,
the
center
for
bioinformatics
when
it
at
its
origin
and
today
crosses
five
of
our
different
colleges.
A
But
the
data
science
institute
encompasses
all
seven
of
our
of
our
graduate
college
and
as
as
written
here,
you
know
we
expand
from
health
sciences,
physical
sciences,
environmental
sciences,
behavioral,
social
and
public
policy.
So
this
is
really
a
research
initiative.
We
don't
hold
and
house
any
of
our
academic
programs
in
the
dsi
in
in
the
institute,
but
certainly
the
the
grant.
Writing
and
the
research
funding
that
is
being
initiated
is
dealing
with
cloud
computing
and
high
performance,
clustering
and
data
science
data
database
initiatives.
A
A
We
started
out
with
just
three
colleges,
but
now
have
five.
So
it
includes
engineering,
arts
and
sciences
ag
and
natural
resources,
earth,
ocean
environment,
health
sciences,
so
we
partner
with
five
different
colleges
and
it
keeps
changing,
but
at
least
20
different
departments
and
our
faculty
list.
Because
of
that
keeps
growing,
you
know
two
or
three
years
ago
it
might
have
been
60
faculty
that
are
affiliated
with
cbcb.
Now
we
have
probably
breaching
probably
about
80
faculty.
A
So
essentially
when
a
student
is
looking
for
research
funding
or
research
support,
they
can
look
at
our
our
long
list
of
affiliated
faculty
that
span
any
of
these
different
colleges
or
departments
and
find
out
what
is
most
passionate
area
of
research
that
they
want
to
be
engaged
in
beyond
that.
We
also
have
regional
partners
that
are
locally
and
regionally
and
they're
places
like
christiana
care
and
nemours
children's
hospital,
which
are
within
20
miles
of
our
campus.
A
We
have
a
association,
delaware,
biosciences,
that
really
collaborates
with
industry
partners,
startup
companies
nonprofits
in
delaware
and
is
an
amazing
resource
for
regional
partnership,
industry,
academia
and
government,
and
then
we
also
our
program,
obviously
will
hold
weekly
seminars
and
is
in
strong
in
internship
opportunities
for
our
students,
independent
studies
for
our
masters
and
our
phd
students.
So
I
wanted
to
go
briefly
because
my
role
is
on
the
academic
advisement
side.
A
So
I
wanted
to
just
give
you
in
a
little
bit
of
an
evolution
of
where
our
program
started
and
where
it
is
now,
because
this
is
at
the
heart
of
what
what
I
keep
trying
it's
the
heart
of
what
I
do
so
at
the
very
beginning.
We
started
our
program
with
developing
a
masters
and
it
was
called
bioinformatics
and
computational
biology.
Masters
and
one
of
our
first
certificates-
and
you
can
see
there
was
2010
and
from
that
we
built
one
two
additional
programs.
A
We
have
the
professional
science
masters
and
then
later
on
a
couple
years
later,
we
did
the
phd
it
has
evolved
over
time.
It
was
strictly
or
more
traditional,
bioinformatics
and
computational
biology
that
centered
and
focused
more
in
systems
biology-
and
you
know
the
broader,
the
broader
genomics,
but
we
have
more
recently
with
a
permanent
status
of
the
phd
we've
rebranded
that
phd
it
used
to
be
called
bioinformatics
and
systems
biology.
It
is
now
bioinformatics
data
science
because
of
the
global
initiative
of
increasing
data
science,
and
particularly
in
the
biomedical
or
the
bioinformatics
sector.
A
So,
as
you
know,
graduate
level
certificates
have
been
a
fantastic
way
to
not
only
we're
finding
in
our
program
not
only
to
bring
people
in
from
other
disciplines
such
as
biological
sciences,
marine
biology,
but
it's
bring
and
it's
allowing
those
students
within
ud
to
take
graduate
level
courses
to
expand
their
portfolio
in
the
area
of
bioinformatics,
and
it's
been
a
fantastic
opportunity.
Our
graduate
level
certificates
have
been
a
fantastic
opportunity
for
our
students
in
other
concentrations
to
learn
data
science
and
it
really
inc.
A
It
really
adds
to
their
portfolio
when
they're
looking
for
a
job.
So
it's
highly
popular
our
graduate
level
certificates
are
highly
popular
with
our
students
on
campus.
They
double
count.
The
courses
double
count
if
they
have
an
elective,
if
they're
getting
their
phd,
the
courses
double
count
for
an
elective
in
their
phd
and
also
to
help
them
earn
a
graduate
level
certificate,
but
it
also,
then
our
focus
is,
is
for
the
workforce,
development
for
those
in
another
career
or
or
in
their
career
and
they're,
now
needing
to
do
data
science.
A
Four
courses
would
gain
you
a
graduate
certificate
and
they
the
courses
were
bioinformatics
systems,
biology,
database
and
programming
and
then
those
four
and
biostat
as
well
so
say.
Let's
say
five.
Those
five
courses
were
the
foundation
for
the
graduate
certificate,
but
also
then
we
built
the
masters
and
the
phd
and
the
psm
on
those
same
five
courses.
A
So
what
we
find
is
there
is
a
real
transition
in
our
student
population
over
time
some
may
be
getting
their
masters
in
biological
sciences.
They
take
a
couple
of
our
courses
in
the
graduate
certificate
and
realize
that
they
count,
for
you,
know
their
master's
degree,
but
if
they
take
two
more,
they
can
get
a
certificate
on
top
of
that,
and
so
it
expands
their
opportunities.
A
So
we
we
find
that
the
graduate
certificates
are
useful
for
workforce
development,
but
also
useful
in
potential
opening
career
opportunities
up
and
changes
in
academic
platform.
For
some
of
our
students,
along
with
that
is
an
initiative
that
we
started
about
five
years
ago.
Way
before
covet
hit
was
to
convert
our
on-campus
courses
into
an
online
platform,
and
we
were
able
to
do
that
with
initial
internal
initiatives
and
push
from
the
graduate
college
at
ud
to
provide
grants
to
allow
us
to
redesign
these
courses
to
an
online
platform.
A
So
all
of
our
bioinformatics
classes
are
offered
100
online
and
we've
slowly
transitioned
our
on-campus
courses
to
100
online,
and
we
are
now
offering
these
in
a
hybrid
or
synchronous
model
and
we're
finding
that
to
be
the
sweet
spot
for
students.
There's
no
tuition
difference,
regardless
of
of
the
platform
we're
finding
that
the
offering
a
hybrid
option
where
the
students
once
a
week
can
have
a
discussion
section
with
the
faculty
and
other
students
and
you're
bringing
the
whole
cohort
together.
The
whole
class
together
has
been
a
really
positive
addition
to
our
online
option.
A
It
just
causes
a
way
to
connect,
answer
questions
and
we
find
that
it
reduces
the
amount
of
time
that
the
faculty
is
spending
individually
one-on-one
with
students,
because
they
can
all
have
this
time
together.
So
it's
it's
a
community
building
for
for
the
courses
as
well.
In
addition
to
that,
we
are
applying
for,
or
we
have
just
recently
applied
for
the
t32
nih
pre-doctoral
training
grant
this
training
grant
would
it
was
for
any
of
you
that
might
be
involved
in
a
t32
training
grant
it's
a
huge
initiative.
A
A
Another
additional
set
of
courses
is
apply,
machine
learning,
intro
to
data
science,
big
data
analytics
and
health
care,
which
is
one
of
the
newer
initiatives,
is
to
expand
our
course
base
for
the
biomedical
and
health
informatics
side.
We
are
also
developing
some
one
credit
courses,
because
we
think
that
the
phd
students
as
they're
there
taking
doing
their
research
there
are
other
courses
that
would
be
highly
beneficial
for
them
as
they
are
engaged
in
active
research.
A
So
for
our
these
are
our
three
different
certificates.
We
offer
the
last
one
is
the
new
one,
the
certificate
in
biomedical
informatics
and
data
science,
so
they
would
be
able
to
pick
what
really.
What
where
our
goal
is,
is
to
take
our
workforce
group
that
are
interested
in
in
expanding
their
knowledge.
We
would
like
them
to
be
able
to
pick
and
choose
what
kind
of
classes
they
want
to
take
at
what
kind
of
knowledge
they
want
to
learn
to
help
increase
their
workforce
portfolio
is,
is
changed
to
bioinformatics
and
data
science.
A
A
And
then
we
have
a
very
active
biostudent,
bio
bioinformatics
student
association
that
is
actively
engaged
in
creating
workshops
for
the
students
doing
social
events.
One
thing
that's
very
popular
is
the
carp,
the
carpentry
software
workshops
and
we
launch
them
twice
a
year,
and
this
is
to
help
bring
those
that
aren't
familiar
with
data
science,
give
them
more
exposure.
A
So
the
our
bc
group
is
highly
highly
interactive
and
engaging
with
the
student
body,
and
then
we
are
just
really
delighted
with
the
app
the
what
our
students
are
being
able
to
do
beyond
their
degree,
and
so
we
span
a
broad
alumni
base
in
many
different
career
opportunities,
whether
they're
an
md
phd
software
engineer
in
the
health
health
sciences.
So
we're
delighted
to
see
what
this
academic
platform
is
is
allowing
them
to
do
in
their
next
steps.