IUPUI professor to teach bioinformatics course in China
November 27, 2007
Jake Yue Chen, assistant professor, IU School of Informatics, has been selected as primary teacher of a national bioinformatics training program in China. Called Dragonstar, the prestigious workshop will be offered in June 2008 by the International Bioinformatics Workshop (IBW) at Yunnan University in Kunming, China. IBW is an interdisciplinary workshop bringing together speakers and audience in the fields of bioinformatics, computational biology, computer sciences, mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, and the new fields of systems biology, genomics, and proteomics.
Each year, DragonStar invites leading overseas computational scientists of Chinese origin to teach computational science courses in China. Prof. Chen will be teaching the five-day course to graduate students, post doctoral students and young faculty members from across China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Chen says he plans to concentrate his lectures on an "Introduction to Translational Bioinformatics," including computational methods for practical problem-solving.
