The anticipated knowledge, skills and attitude to be developed by the student are:

1. A thorough understanding of biomedical science as a broad field that applies rigorous, biology-based principles to the field biological and medical research, including research into the diseases of humans and development of potential therapeutic agents.

2. Understanding of case studies of key biological challenges and diseases, with emphasis on experimental approaches that lead to our current understanding, and the role of biomedical science in future diagnosis and treatment of the disease

3. Ability to utilise available computational tools to analyse and predict the nature of biological sequence data.

4. Ability to present and discuss scientific findings using a variety of communication methods.

5. Ability to critically analyse and understand published biomedical research

Students will be supplied with required & suggested readings, available from the Barr Smith Library or from online sources.

Access to MyUni and University email is absolutely required, as the bulk of communication with students will be via these mechanisms.

MyUni: Teaching materials and course documentation will be posted on the MyUni website (http://myuni.adelaide.edu.au/).

The tutorials provide a mechanism for students to review the lecture material. Workshop sessions and related assessments will use examples from the lectures to develop skills in computational biology and scientific communication in various forms.

Students are expected to attend all planned teaching activities to maximise their chances of success. In addition students are expected to spend 2 hours per lecture and 1 hour per tutorial in revision and preparation respectively. Finally, students will need to spend 50 hours in preparation of various assessments associated with the workshop.

A student enrolled in a 3 unit course such as this should expect to spend on average 12 hours per week on the studies required. This includes both the formal contact time required to the course (e.g., lectures and practicals), as well as non-contact time (e.g., reading, preparing assessments etc).

Please Note:
Tutorials are held weekly and begin in week 2. 
Lecture topics are subject to change based on staff availability
The "Research" lectures are given by staff from the School of Biological Sciences on topics relevant to their particular research program.

Week	Type of learning activity	Topic
1	Lecture	Introductory Lecture and Bioinformatics Overview
	Workshop	Workshop #1
2	Lecture	Bioinformatics Overview
	Workshop	N/A
3	Lecture	Bioinformatics Overview
	Workshop	Workshop #2
4	Lecture	Bioinformatics Overview and Drug Discovery & Development
	Workshop	N/A
5	Lecture	Drug Discovery & Development
	Workshop	Workshop #3
6	Lecture	Vaccines
	Workshop	N/A
7	Lecture	Vaccines & Evolutionary Medicine
	Workshop	Workshop #4
8	Lecture	Evolutionary Medicine
	Workshop	N/A
Mid Semester Break
9	Lecture	Intellectual Property & Research Lecture
	Workshop	Workshop #5
10	Lecture	Research Lectures
	Workshop	N/A
11	Lecture	Research Lectures
	Workshop	Workshop #6
12	Lecture	Research Lecture & Topical Lecture
	Workshop	N/A

Assessment task	Type of assessment	Percentage of total assessment for grading purposes	Hurdle (Yes/No)	Outcomes being assessed
Bioinformatics Discovery Challenge	Summative	15%	No	3,5
Scientific Communication - Poster Abstract & Plan	Summative	15%	No	2,4,5
Scientific Communication - Oral Presentation	Summative	10%	No	2,4,5
Scientific Communication - Group Poster	Summative	20%	No	2,4,5
Tutorial Tests	Summative	4 x 10%	No	1

Attendance at all teaching activities is required to obtain instruction for assessments.

Please note periodic assessements will be held during either workshops and/or tutorials, hence attendance at all of these activities is mandatory.

Non-attendance at these sessions without adequate reason (in association with appropriate documentation) will result in a zero mark for the relevant assessment.

Description of Assessment:
All assessment tasks will be supported by extensive guidelines and detailed assessment rubrics.
Specific criteria along with a template document will be provided to assist the students in completing each assessment task.

Bioinformatics Discovery Challenge (15% of total course grade):
Students will be supplied with short DNA reads of an “unknown” sequence which they need to assemble and analyse using various online bioinformatics tools. Students present the putative function of the assembled sequence, using evidence from the tools used as well as published articles to support their hypothesis.  This assessment will be a written document that includes their analysis, along with information about how they would proceed to experimentally verify their hypothesis.

Scientific communication - Poster Abstract & Plan (15% of total course grade):
Students are required to review and summarise literature relevant to their assigned topic.  In addition, the students will also need to present a plan for the poster they will submit later in the semester. The poster topics will be derived from a range of Biomedical topics related to the lecture material.

Scientific communication - Oral Presentation (10% of total course grade):
Students will present a 6 min oral presentation on a provided topic, which will be linked to one or more of the lectures.  5% of their mark will be based on staff assessment and the remaining 5% on peer assessment.

Scientific communication - Poster (20% of total course grade):
Student groups will submit a conference style poster. This will be based on their abstracts; thus they will have the materials on hand and will need to translate these into a form that is suitable for
presenting via a poster.  14% of their mark will be based on staff assessment of their posters, while the remaining 6% will be derived from peer assessment

Tutorial Tests: (40% of total course grade):
Tutorial tests will be held periodically throughout the semester.  These tests will help students evaluate their understanding of the lecture content, and provide a mechanism for discussion and review within the tutorial sessions.

Written work will be submitted via the relevant assessment link on MyUni as appropriate. Coversheets & Templates will be supplied as required. Any work submitted without the relevant coversheet will NOT be assessed. Tests papers will be collected at the end of each test period, with feedback provided in a following teaching session.

Late submission of assessments
If an extension is not applied for, or not granted then a penalty for late submission will apply. A penalty of 10% of the value of the assignment for each calendar day that the assignment is late (i.e. weekends count as 2 days), up to a maximum of 50% of the available marks will be applied. This means that an assignment that is 5 days late or more without an approved extension can only receive a maximum of 50% of the marks available for that assignment.