Teaching

Our Bioinformatics group is heavily involved in work in interdisciplinary environments, including Immunology, Cancer research, as well as the fields of Thombosis and Hemostasis. Acknowledging the importance of communicating and exchanging knowledge with researchers with diverse backgrounds, we are contributing to the portfolio of academic learning offered by the University Medical Center in Mainz:

• We contribute to different sessions of the Q1 (Querschnittsfach Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Medical Informatics), teaching basic statistics knowledge in practical sessions

• We provide ad-hoc and recurrent seminars and workshops, introducing graduate students to programming with R, performing statistical analyses, and generating visualizations. We also teach researchers leading hands-on workshops on analyzing bulk RNA-seq data and single-cell RNA-seq data

• We offer workshops on some of the R/Bioconductor packages we developed, such as GeneTonic and iSEE, simplifying omics data analysis by making its constitutive operations more accessible and interactive tasks

• We coordinated and organized the GTIPI Summer School in Bioinformatics, “Genomics and Transcriptomics, Integrated with Proteomics and Medical Informatics” (May-June 2022), focusing on the constitutive pillars of Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine (funded by the BMBF e:Med Systems Medicine initiative)

• We deliver introduction-level teaching for RNA-seq data analysis and Bioinformatics data analysis in the scope of the Master of Science in Epidemiology (coordinated by the IMBEI) and the MSc Biomedicine, coordinated by the Institute of Molecular Medicine