2011 Workshop on Comparative Genomics, Fort Collins
2011 Workshop on Comparative Genomics, Fort Collins

The 2011 Workshop on Comparative Genomics (renamed Workshop on Genomics), Fort Collins was the first time this particular Workshop was organized in North America. The Workshop curriculum was designed to be similar to the previous Workshop in Český Krumlov with several minor changes made based on participant feedback. For example, a large number of participants and faculty from the previous Workshop recommended increasing the amount of time dedicated to working with the UNIX command line and programming. This is reflected in the Fort Collins schedule shown below. The Workshop was attended by 67 participants from over 20 different countries with a wide range of experience and interests in the genomic sciences.

For more information about this Workshop please click here. Or can apply for future version of the Workshop on Genomics by selecting the appropriate Workshop from the apply menu at the top of this page.

Complete schedule for the 2011 Workshop on Genomics, Fort Collins.

Week 1 : 10-16 July, 2011
Date Time Presenter Topic
10 July 7p – 10p Everyone Reception
11 July 9a – 12p Scott Handley Workshop Introduction
2p – 5p Evan Eichler Identification and Detection of Structural Variation
7p – 10p Workshop Team Laboratory Introduction
12 July 9a – 12p Mike Zody Genomic Study Design
2p – 5p Craig Cummings / Sepideh Rogers Life Technologies-Ion Torrent and Roche 454 Lectures
7p – 10p Workshop Team Unix Tutorial
13 July 9a – 12p Workshop Team Data Quality Assessment and Quality Control
2p – 5p Jason Stajich Perl
7p – 10p Jason Stajich BioPerl
14 July 9a – 12p Shaun Jackman Assembly Lecture
2p – 5p Shaun Jackman ABySS Lab I
7p – 10p Shaun Jackman ABySS Lab II
15 July 9a – 12p Workshop Team Genome Assembly Lab: Velvet and Bowtie I
2p – 5p Workshop Team Genome Assembly Lab: Velvet and Bowtie II
7p – 10p Everyone Open Lab
16 July 9a – 12p Manuel Garber Transcriptomics Lecture
2p – 5p Manuel Garber Transcriptomics Lab: Scripture
7p – 10p Everyone Cookout
Week 2 : 17-23 July, 2011
Date Time Presenter Topic
17 July All Day Everyone Free Dat
18 July 9a – 12p Sheldon McKay GMOD/Gbrowse I
2p – 5p Sheldon McKay GMOD/Gbrowse II
7p – 10p Everyone Open Lab
19 July 9a – 12p Everyone Open Lab
2p – 5p Greg Caporaso PyCogent Introduction
7p – 10p Daniel McDonald Advanced PyCogen
20 July 9a – 12p Rob Knight Microbial Ecology
2p – 5p Antonio Gonzalez and Tony Walters QIIME: Introduction and Pipeline
7p – 10p Bharath Prithiviraj and Jesse Stormbaugh Diverstiy Metrics, QIIME Databases and the Earth Microbiome Project
21 July 9a – 12p Daniel Blankenberg Galaxy: Introduction
2p – 5p Daniel Blankenberg Galaxy: Lab Part I
7p – 10p Daniel Blankenberg Galaxy: Lab Part I
22 July 9a – 12p Antonis Rokas Evolutionary Genomics
2p – 5p Everyone Open Lab
7p – 10p Everyone Workshop Party