BIOM285, Spring 2026

BIOM285, Spring 2026

Course director: Kyle Gaulton (kgaulton@ucsd.edu)

Teaching assistant: Maddie Pittigher (mpittigher@ucsd.edu)

Class times: WF 1:30-3:00 PM, CMM East Room 2047
Office hours: M 1:30-2:30 PM, CMM East first floor/Room 1059

Slack: biom285-2026.slack.com
Link to join Slack is on Canvas

Course syllabus (draft):
NOTE: The first day of class is Monday, April 6

April 6-10 - Study design in biomedical science, intro to R
April 13-17 - Hypothesis testing, p-values, multiple testing
April 20-24 - Comparing means
April 27-May 1 - Correlation, regression
May 4-8 - Categorical data, Generalized linear models
May 11-15 - Linear mixed models, Intro to machine learning
May 18-22 - Survey of statistics in BMS
May 25-29 - Survey of statistics in BMS, Class presentations
June 1-5 - Class presentations (class this week is Mon-Wed, no Fri)

Assignments:
Assignment 1 - due April 24

Assignment 2 - due May 8

Assignment 3 - due June 7

Assignment 4 - due June 7

Example submission: R script, answer

Presentations:
Guide to class presentations: link

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Study design in biomedical science, intro to R

Mon April 6 - slides

Wed April 8 - slides

Fri April 10- slides | extra slides | code: DataHub - April_10/

Hypothesis testing, p-values, multiple testing

Wed April 15
Lecture: slides
Code/Examples: DataHub April_15/

Fri April 17
Lecture: slides
Code/Examples: DataHub April_17/

Comparing means

Wed April 22
Lecture: slides
Code/Examples: DataHub April_22/

Fri April 24
Lecture: slides
Code/Examples: DataHub April_24/

Correlation and regression

Wed April 29
Lecture: slides
Code/Examples: DataHub April_29/

Fri May 1
Lecture: slides
Code/Examples: DataHub May_1/

Categorical data, Generalized linear models

Wed May 6
Lecture: slides
Code/Examples: DataHub May_6/

Fri May 8
Lecture: slides
Code/Examples: DataHub May_8/

Linear mixed models, Intro to machine learning

Wed May 13
Lecture: slides
Code/Examples: DataHub May_13/

Fri May 15
Lecture: slides
Code/Examples: DataHub May_15/

Survey of statistics in biomedical science

Wed May 20 - Genetics
Emily Griffin
Montana Lara
Code/Examples: DataHub May_20/
Fri May 22 - Genomics Grace Carter
Weston Elison
Code/Examples: DataHub May_22/

Survey of statistics in biomedical science

Wed May 27 - Proteomics
Lawrence Liu
Safal Shrestha
Code/Examples: DataHub May_27/