Section: Dissemination
Teaching
Ten members of the HELIX project, seven in Lyon and three in Grenoble, are professors or assistant professors at, respectively, the University Claude Bernard in Lyon and the Universities Joseph Fourier and Pierre Mendès-France in Grenoble. They therefore have a full teaching service (at least 192 hours).
Various members of the project have developed over the years courses in biometry, bioinformatics and evolutionary biology at all levels of the University as well as at the ``École Normale Supérieure'' (ENS) of Lyon and the INSA (``Institut National de Sciences Appliquées''). One strong motivation is the need to provide training to biologists having a good background in mathematics and computer science. The group has thus participated in the creation (in 2000) at the INSA of a new module at the Department of Biochemistry called `Bioinformatics and Modelling'. This module is open for students entering the third year of the INSA, and covers 1700 hours of courses over 5 semesters. The project contributes also bioinformatic courses at the level of a ``Magistère'' at the ENS.
As part of the LMD system that was set up at all Universities in France in 2005, members of the project have created a complete interdisciplinary module of the LMD offering training in biology, mathematics and computer science. The module is called ``Approches Mathématique et Informatique du Vivant'' (AMIV http://miv.univ-lyon1.fr/fr/ ). It leads to Master's diplomas in the scientific and medical fields.
A second important educational activity of the project concerns not disconnecting biology from the teaching of mathematics to biologists. To this purpose, various members of the project work in the context of an INCA (`Initiative Campus Action') project together with other Universities in the Rhône-Alpes region to maintain a web site (http://nte-serveur.univ-lyon1.fr/nte/mathsv/ ) dedicated to the teaching of mathematics to biologists using the latest technologies. The main originality of the site rests upon the complementary balance maintained between the methodological and the biological courses. The first covers biostatistics, biomathematics and bioinformatics while the second concern general and population genetics, and molecular evolution.
Finally, members of the project have participated in, or sometimes organised numerous courses or teaching modules including at the international level, such as, for instance, the creation and support of a Master's course in Ho-Chi-Minh, Vietnam, and the creation and direction of a PhD Program in Computational Biology in Lisbon, Portugal (http://bc.igc.gulbenkian.pt/pdbc/ ).
Besides the full time professors in HELIX, the following non professor members have contributed the following courses during the year.
Laurent Duret
| Subject | Year | Location | Hours |
| Bioinformatique | 3 to 5 | INSA Lyon | 26 |
| Bioinformatique | 3 to 5 | ENS Lyon | 7 |
| Bioinformatique | 3 to 5 | UCBL | 7 |
| Bioinformatique | 3 to 5 | Otto Warburg International Summer School, Germany | 6 |
| Bioinformatique | 3 to 5 | International Postgraduate Course in Genomics, Espagne | 20 |
Hidde de Jong
| Subject | Year | Location | Hours |
| Modelling and simulation of genetic regulatory networks (with D. Ropers) | 5 | UCBL | 8 |
| Modelling and simulation of genetic regulatory networks | 4 | INSA, Lyon | 14 |
| Modelling and simulation of genetic regulatory networks | 4 | University of Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico | 2 |
| Modelling and simulation of genetic regulatory networks | 5 | Instituto Gulbenkian de Cienca, Lisbon, Portugal | 14 |
Manolo Gouy
| Subject | Year | Location | Hours |
| Molecular phylogeny | 5 | UCBL, ENS Lyon, INSA Lyon | 6 |
| Molecular phylogeny | 5 | UCBL | 9 |
| Molecular phylogeny | 4 | INSA, Lyon | 9 |
Daniel Kahn
| Subject | Year | Location | Hours |
| Bioinformatique | 3 to 5 | INSA Lyon | 4 |
| Bioinformatique | 3 to 5 | INA Paris | 2 |
Guy Perrière
| Subject | Year | Location | Hours |
| Molecular phylogeny | 5 | Univ. Rouen | 11 |
| Databases and alignments | 3-5 | UCBL | 8 |
| Molecular phylogeny | 5 | UCBL | 2 |
| Bacterial genomes plasticity | 3-5 | UCBL | 8 |
| Horizontal gene transfers | 5 | INSA, Lyon | 8 |
Delphine Ropers
| Subject | Year | Location | Hours |
| Modelling and simulation of genetic regulatory networks (with H. de Jong) | 5 | UCBL | 8 |
| Modelling and simulation of genetic regulatory networks | 4 | UJF, Grenoble | 16 |
Marie-France Sagot
| Subject | Year | Location | Hours |
| Algorithmics for biology | 4 | UCBL | 4 |
| Algorithmics for biology | 5 | INSA Lyon | 8 |
Eric Tannier
| Subject | Year | Location | Hours |
| Algorithms for biology | 4 | INSA, Lyon | 16 |
