Registration fee: $350.00
The Harvard University Center for AIDS Research; the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard; and the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at MGH presents a week-long workshop focused exclusively on approaches to microbial genome sequencing of bacteria and viruses.
This intensive, hands-on course will feature morning and afternoon sessions taught by expert faculty and technical assistants. All participants will acquire fundamental computational skills, appropriate study design, data interpretation, and overall literacy in bioinformatics.
When: 12-16, December, 2016 : Morning Sessions 9:00 – 12:00 | Afternoon Sessions 1:00 – 4:00
Where: Joseph B. Martin Conference Center Harvard Medical School 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115.
Fee: There is a $350 registration fee to offset the costs of providing this 5 day workshop. Breakfast, lunch, and access to Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure are included. A networking reception will be held for all participants who complete the workshop.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
| Monday | Topic | Faculty Member | Institution |
| AM | Clinical Genomics in Public Health | Jennifer Gardy | British Columbia Centre for Disease Control |
| PM | Laboratory and Unix Intro. | Sophie Shaw | The University of Aberdeen |
| Tuesday | |||
| AM | Using Bacterial Genomics to Improve Public Health and Clinical Decision Making | Yonatan Grad & Christopher Desjardins | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health & Broad Institute |
| PM | Bacterial Genomics Laboratory | Christopher Desjardins | Broad Institute |
| Wednesday | |||
| AM | Viral Genomics and Evolution | Sergei L Kosakovsky Pond | Temple University |
| PM | Viral Genomics and Evolution – Workshop | Sergei L Kosakovsky Pond | Temple University |
| Thursday | |||
| AM | Introduction to metagenomics and genome binning | A. Murat Eren | University of Chicago |
| PM | Anvi’o Laboratory | A. Murat Eren | University of Chicago |
| Friday | |||
| AM | Introduction to amplicon-based inference of microbial community structures | Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza | University of California, San Diego |
| PM | QIIME Laboratory | Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza | University of California, San Diego |
| Downloading Your Data | Sophie Shaw | The University of Aberdeen |