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Professional Certificate in Bioinformatics

The Professional Certificate in Bioinformatics is a full-time, in-person only, two-week course at the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine.

Course Description

The course has a mammalian genomics focus, including:

• RNA seq
• GWAS
• RNA assembly
• Comparative genomics
• Population genetics
• Metagenomics

Course Programme

The programme is available, and the module descriptor is also available.

Course Lecturers

The course lecturers include:

• Gavin Conant, North Carolina State University
• Gavin Douglas, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Entry Requirements

Applicants must have completed an undergraduate degree in:

• Agriculture
• Life Sciences
• Veterinary Medicine Applicants must have recently undertaken a Biostatistics course to upskill or remind themselves of statistics basics before coming on the course. All applications will be reviewed by the programme coordinator.

Course Fee

For UCD research students, the course is included in the registration fee when students use it to complete taught course work credits. For everybody else, the fee is 2,000.

Graduate Programmes

The UCD School of Veterinary Medicine offers various graduate programmes, including:

• Professional Certificate TEARAP
• Grad Cert in Dairy Herd Health
• Professional Doctorate (DVMS)
• Research Programmes
• Professional Cert in Bioinformatics

Research

The UCD School of Veterinary Medicine conducts research in various areas, including:

• Overview
• Research Themes
• Summer Student Research Projects
• Spotlights
• Ongoing Clinical Research
• Veterinary Ireland Journal - Research Focus
• Research Opportunities