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Teaching
 

MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology

Adrian Shepherd is Course Director, Chair of Examiners and a Course Tutor for this long-running and widely respected MSc course run jointly by Birkbeck and UCL. He teaches on the following course modules:

  • Biocomputing I (10 lectures/practicals)
  • Data Management (8 lectures/practicals)
  • Sequnce Analysis and Genomics (1 lecture on Machine learning: neural networks and SVMs)
  • Systems Biology (1 lecture on Simulating the Human Immune System)

Many of Dr Sheperd's PhD students have been recruited from the course, and act as demonstrators during their studies.

 

Graduate Studies Programme

Dr Shepherd runs sessions on bioinformatics and plagiarism for the Graduate Studies Programme in the Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck.

 

Previous Teaching Duties

Dr Shepherd:

  • Was Lead Tutor on the Database Management Systems module of the Bioinformatics Programme at the University of Oxford (2005-11)
  • Was External Examiner for the MSc Bioinformatics and Systems Biology course at Imperial College (2005-2009)
  • Was Admissions Tutor (until February 2011) and taught Java (until 2008) on the MSc Bionformatics with Systems Biology course at BBK/UCL
  • Taught bioinformatics on the MSc Microbiology and BSc Molecular Biology at Birkbeck

 
SysMIC
 

The SysMIC (Systems Training in Maths, Informatics and Computational Biology), a 5-year £1 million project funded by the BBSRC, started in January 2012. Dr Shepherd is co-PI on this project. Preliminary information about the SysMIC project is available here.

 
Masters Projects
 
Current Masters projects are listed here. (For a list of past projects, see this page.)

  • "Dissecting drivers for triple-negative breast cancer subtypes through genomics integrated meta-analyses", Johnathan Watkins (MRes Bioinformatics with Systems Biology, co-supervised by Dr Anita Grigoriadis, Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit, King's College London)
  • "An assessment of influenza A assays and antibody binding", Olajide Akere (MRes Microbiology, 2011/12, co-supervised with Dr John McCauley, Director of the WHO Influenza Centre, NIMR and William Lees)
  • "Analysing the distribution of antigenically important residues in HIV envelope glycoprotein gp41", Cara Jetten (MSc Bioinformatics, 2010-12, co-supervised with Prof. David Moss and William Lees)
  • "Analysing the distribution of antigenically important residues in HIV envelope glycoprotein gp120", Esther Fearnhill (MSc Bioinformatics, 2010-12, co-supervised with Prof. David Moss and William Lees)
  • "An investigation of the antigenic properties of foot-and-mouth", Patience Tetteh (MSc Health and Disease, 2010-12)
  • "An investigation of the antigenic properties of infectious bronchitis", Christian Search (MSc Health and Disease, 2010-12)
  • "Analysis of PrPd deposition patterns in brains from bovine BSE cases", Sarah Jo Moore (MSc Bioinformatics, 2008-12, co-supervised with the Veterinary Laboratories Agency)