The history and organization of the Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Curriculum and Education

Guy Leonard¹  Emiliano Trucchi²  Scott A. Handley³  Jan Stefka⁴  Daniel Kintzl⁵  Milan Malinsky⁶  Michael Matschiner⁷  Britta S. Meyer⁸  Julia M. I. Barth⁹  Walter Salzburger⁹ 

[1] Department of Biology, University of Oxford, 11a Mansfield Road, OX1 3SZ, Oxford, UK;Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy;Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Ave., 63110-1010, St. Louis, MO, USA;Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branis̆ovská 1760, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic;Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS, Branis̆ovská 31, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic;Infocentrum Český Krumlov, náměstí Svornosti 2, 38101, Český Krumlov, Czech Republic;Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland;Natural History Museum, Unversity of Oslo, Sars’ gate 1, 0562, Oslo, Norway;Research Unit for Evolutionary Immunogenomics, Department of Biology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146, Hamburg, Germany;Zoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Vesalgasse 1, 4051, Basel, Switzerland;

关键词: Bioinformatics;    Genomics;    Education;    Course;    Workshop;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12052-023-00182-w

 received in 2022-05-14, accepted in 2023-01-13,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

With the advent of high-throughput genome sequencing, bioinformatics training has become essential for research in evolutionary biology and related fields. However, individual research groups are often not in the position to teach students about the most up-to-date methodology in the field. To fill this gap, extended bioinformatics courses have been developed by various institutions and provide intense training over the course of two or more weeks. Here, we describe our experience with the organization of a course in one of the longest-running extended bioinformatics series of workshops, the Evomics Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics that takes place biennially in the UNESCO world heritage town of Český Krumlov, Czech Republic. We list the key ingredients that make this workshop successful in our view, explain the routine for workshop organization that we have optimized over the years, and describe the most important lessons that we have learned from it. We report the results of a survey conducted among past workshop participants that quantifies measures of effective teaching and provide examples of how the workshop setting has led to the cross-fertilisation of ideas and ultimately scientific progress. We expect that our account may be useful for other groups aiming to set up their own extended bioinformatics courses.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2023

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