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| Education Workshop, Friday, December 9 Topic: Mining for Bioinformatics Jobs: Training students with the appropriate skill set for a successful career in the Bioinformatics Field. Focus: This year we will focus on the bioinformatics skills needed to be successful in today’s bioinformatics market in the academic, industry, and other non-academic environments. Last year the Education Panel discussion focused on introductions and exchange of ideas on best practices for Bioinformatics Education and course curriculum with in the regional west. This was accomplished by having representatives from each of the academic institutions introduce their Bioinformatics Programs and present the progress and challenges. This year we will focus on the bioinformatics skills needed to be successful in today’s bioinformatics market in the academic, industry, and other non-academic environments. An article in Nature Reviews | Drug Discovery (2004) on bioinformatics careers states, “the growing number of courses and experience workers in bioinformatics means that the recruitment market has become tougher for new graduates”. According to a survey of academic training programs and an analysis of advertised job openings published in 2005 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education), it was concluded that the labor market in bioinformatics has changed dramatically from 1990s to the early 2000s. The number of training programs, as well as enrollment, expanded rapidly during this period. The expansion has created a substantial pipeline of students who will matriculate from these programs in the near future. Results of the survey state, while the expansion of training programs has occurred, the demand in bioinformatics market declined and its origins have shifted largely from industry to academe. Unless conditions in industry change dramatically in the next few years, it is likely that trainees from these programs will have difficulty finding the expect jobs in industry.” IF this proposed
trend is accurate, this raises a number of issues, which are the
topic of Rocky 2005 Education Panel Discussion. In session I: we
will have a panel of academics professionals who will discuss their
perspective. In session II: we will have a panel of non-academics
describe their perspective. In session III: we will open up the
discussion to participants in a round table discussion.
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