This course conducts hands-on workshops for graduate students in biomedical related majors who are interested in learning big data analysis, basic programming and statistical techniques, especially for next generation sequence genomics data. The topics include introduction to linux command line, R programming, NGS data analysis for Whole Genomic Sequencing (WGS), RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, scRNA-seq, ATAC-seq etc. We will also cover how to make scientific figures with Adobe Illustrator.

Biomedical Disorder 1B

Biomedical Disorder 2B

This course is designed for the graduate students who are interested in immunology and infectious diseases. This course first provides detailed instructions of the major components of immune system in mammals, innate and adoptive immune system and the regulations of immune systems. Then the course will focus on the immunology in diseases, including infectious diseases, tumor and immunology, auto-immune diseases and immune system in neural system. We will also discuss the cutting-edge techniques in immunological studies and immune therapy, such as CAR-T, microbiomes, TCR-seq.

This course provides a detailed introduction to the biology of stem cell and regenerative medicine. The topics include stem cell types and sources (embryonic stem cell, tissue stem cell and iPS cell), stem cell self-renewal and differentiation, stem cell niche. We will also cover main aspects of regenerative medicine, especially the novel strategies to regenerate cell and organ,biomaterial and bionanotechnology. Another theme of this course is cancer biology, focusing on cancer initiation and metastasis, cancer stem cell and tumor heterogeneity, cancer therapy and drug resistance.