section chimie/biochimie

Course 14C041: Research Frontiers in the Section of Chemistry and Biochemistry
List B course for MSc students in Chemistry or Biochemistry (28h; 4 ECTS; autumn)

Organizers:
Prof. O. Dudin - omaya.dudin@unige.ch

Prof. R. Milton - ross.milton@unige.ch

Teachers:

This course will feature teaching and research contributions from a total of 15 research group leaders across the Section of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

The purpose of this course is to give an overview of the principal bioinformatic tools and databases which are used in genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics.

A special emphasis will be given to biological databases and in silico protein sequence analysis (domain detection and functional prediction, similarity  search, multiple sequence alignment, 3D structure analysis;  theory and practical work).

1 14 September 2026
8h15 - 12h00
No course    
2 21 September 2026
8h15 - 12h00
Databases I ; Sequence databases E. Gasteiger, L. Pourcel CMU, D60
3 28 September 2026
8h15 - 12h00
Databases II ; Derivative databases E. Gasteiger, L. Pourcel CMU, D60
4 05 October 2026
8h15 - 12h00
Genomics ; Genomes E. Zdobnov, W. Liu, M. Berkeley CMU, D60
5 12 October 2026
8h15 - 12h00
Transcriptomics ; Gene expression E. Levy, A. Aleksandrov, H. Schweke CMU, D60
6 19 October 2026
8h15 - 12h00
Ontology ; Knowledge representation P. Gaudet, P. Masson, C. Casals CMU, D60
7 26 October 2026
8h15 - 12h00
Sequence alignment & Blast E. Levy, A. Aleksandrov, H. Schweke CMU, D60
8 02 November 2026
8h15 - 12h00
Phylogenetics E. Zdobnov, W. Liu, M. Berkeley CMU, D60
9 09 November 2026
8h15 - 12h00
Structural biology I E. Levy, H. Schweke, S. Mathur CMU, D60
10 16 November 2026
8h15 - 12h00
Structural biology II ; 3D prediction & similarity search E. Levy, S. Mathur, H. Schweke CMU, D60
11 23 November 2026
8h15 - 12h00
Biological networks E. Levy, A. Aleksandrov, S. Mathur CMU, D60
12 30 November 2026
8h15 - 12h00
Protein domain & family C. Sigrist, E. Gasteiger, I. Pedruzzi CMU, D60
13 07 December 2026
8h15 - 12h00
Paths to system biology E. Levy, A. Aleksandrov, S. Mathur CMU, D60
14 14 December 2026
10h00 - 11h00
Questions / Discussion   CMU, D60