2021 Program Calendar

June 1 | 1:00 PM EDT

Welcome | Orientation

June 2 | 9:45 AM – 4:00 PM EDT

BU Bioinformatics Student Organized Symposium. This event is brought to you by students in the Graduate Program in Bioinformatics.

June 3 |  3:00 – 4:00 PM EDT 

Programming Workshop | Introductions and Setup

June 9 |  12:00 PM EDT

Ethics in Research and the Student-Mentor Relationship

June 9 |  3:00 – 5:00 PM EDT

Programming Workshop
•Session 1: BASH and the SCC

June 10 |  7:00 PM EDT

Team Building: Mystery Escape Room

June 16 |  3:00 – 5:00 PM EDT

Programming Workshop
• Session 2: Programming in R

June 22 |  5:30 PM EDT

Education for Equity and Democracy Symposium

June 23 |  3:00 – 5:00 PM EDT

Programming Workshop
• Session 3: Programming in Python

June 24 |  7:00 – 9:00 PM EDT

Gather.town Social with Bioinformatics PhD Students

June 28 |  7:00 – 8:30 PM EDT

Social Event: War of the Wizards

June 29 | 4:30 PM EDT

Picture This – Panel Discussion

June 30 | 12:00 pm EDT
(Optional)

Faculty Talk: Professor Saida Grundy, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies

June 30 |  3:00 – 5:00 PM EDT

Programming Workshop
• Session 4: Git and snakemake 

July 7 |  3:00 – 5:00 PM EDT

Programming Workshop
• Session 5: Data visualization

July 14 |  12:00 – 1:30 PM EDT

UROP Research Café

July 14 |  3:00 – 5:00 PM EDT

Programming Workshop
• Session 6: Machine learning

July 20 | 1:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

Scientific Poster and Short Talk Workshop

July 21 | 12:00 PM EDT
(Optional)

Faculty Talk: Professor Jeremy MenchikPardee School of Global Studies

July 21 |  3:00 – 5:00 PM EDT

Programming Workshop
• Session 7 : SQL

July 26 | 1:00 PM EDT

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Webinar

July 27 | 1:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

Scientific Poster and Short Talk Workshop

July 28 |  12:00 – 1:30 PM EDT
(Optional)

UROP Research Café

August 3 | 1:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

Scientific Poster and Short Talk Workshop

August 5 | 1:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

BRITE Mini-Symposium