Celebrating Achievement: 26 Students Graduate with a Minor in Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics students 2025
June 5, 2025

On Thursday, June 5th, the Department of Computational Medicine hosted a graduation event honoring the graduating students. We are proud of their accomplishments and wish them all the best in their future endeavors!

The Department of Computational Medicine is heavily involved in undergraduate education in Bioinformatics. These efforts include offering a complement of courses in Bioinformatics to undergraduate students and research opportunities in faculty labs. In addition, the department helps administer the Undergraduate Bioinformatics Minor.  

The minor in Bioinformatics allows students to develop an integrated understanding of contemporary genomic-scale research. Through a comprehensive inventory of courses, the minor in Bioinformatics provides a solid foundation in, and familiarity with, active research problems at the interface of computer science, biology, and mathematics.  Students undertaking the Bioinformatics Minor explore the genetic determinants of complex human disease, including psychiatric diseases and cancer, the development of computational methods for the analysis of expression data and the epigenome, and the study of population genetics and evolution.

Find out more about the Bioinformatics Minor here: https://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/bioinf/
 
If you would like to apply to add the Bioinformatics Minor, please follow the process outlined here: https://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/minor-application/
 
If you have any questions about the Bioinformatics Minor, please contact a Bioinformatics undergraduate counselor via myUCLA Message Center. To make sure your message and request for a meeting reaches the appropriate counselor, please include the phrase "Bioinformatics Minor" in the subject line.
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