The University of Birmingham Dubai has appointed a programme lead for the new MSc in Bioinformatics, which will start in September 2021. Dr DaneshMoradigaravand will be running a workshop this Saturday, 1st May, to introduce the programme for anyone interested in learning more about bioinformatics.
Together with Professor Jean-Baptiste Cazier, Director of the Centre for Computational Biology (CCB) and Chair of Bioinformatics, Alan Turing Fellow, participants will be taken through a range of research projects undertaken by the Centre for Computational Biology (CCB) at the University of Birmingham. The multi-disciplinary centre has played a central role in the pioneering clinical research on COVID-19, by providing descriptive, diagnostic and prescriptive data-driven insights to understand the epidemiology of COVID-19 and identify risk factors at the population level.
Professor Cazier and Dr Moradigaravand will also present the broad ongoing research programs in other subfields of health data science at the CCB, including human population diversity of Middle Eastern populations, and environmental bioinformatics.
As the first face-to-face graduate MSc program of its kind in the Gulf region, the University of Birmingham Dubai’s MSc in Bioinformatics has been designed to address the particular existing needs and knowledge gaps in interdisciplinary quantitative biomedical fields in the region.
Dr Moradigaravandcomes to Dubai from the University of Birmingham’s UK campus where he has been lecturing in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology for the last three years. His research aims to provide a better understanding of evolutionary dynamics of bacterial populations. To this end, he develops theoretical evolutionary genetics models and computational frameworks and conducts genomic data analyses by taking a machine learning approach. In particular, the focus is on the evolution of antibiotic resistance in pathogens in clinical and non-clinical settings.
The event ‘‘AI to Leverage Biomedical Big Data’ will take place online Saturday 1st May from 3pm – 4pm. Find out more about the event here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/dubai/events/dubai-events-2020-21/ai-to-leverage-biomedical-big-data-saturday-1-may.aspx
As the first global top 100 and UK Russell Group university to establish a campus in Dubai, Birmingham offers programmes in business, economics, computer science, mechanical engineering,accounting, money banking and finance, psychology and international law and globalisation, as well as teacher training.
To find out more about the courses available at the University of Birmingham Dubai, please visit https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/dubai. More details about the MSc Bioinformatics can be found here.
