In response to the number one training need identified by the Harvard University CFAR Community, we will be sponsoring a week-long workshop focused exclusively on computational biology. This intensive, hands-on course will feature morning and afternoon sessions taught by expert faculty and technical assistants from the Broad, Ragon Institute, Harvard School of Public Health and Washington University, St. Louis. All participants will acquire fundamental computational skills, appropriate study design, data interpretation, and overall literacy in bioinformatics.
When: Monday, September 15 – Friday, September 19 Morning Sessions 9:00 – 12:00 | Afternoon Sessions 2:00 – 5:00
Where: Joseph B. Martin Conference Center Harvard Medical School 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115. We will be in the Pechet Family Conference room
Fee: There is a $300 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 | Introduction and Fundamentals | Faculty Member | Institution |
| AM | Genomics Study Design | Mike Zody | New York Genome Center |
| PM | Laboratory and Unix Intro. | Scott Handley | Washington University School of Medicine |
| Tuesday | Metagenomics | ||
| AM | Introduction to Metagenomics | Eric Franzosa and Galeb Abu-Ali | Huttenhower Laboratory, Harvard School of Public Health |
| AM | Metagenomics Laboratory (updates) | Eric Franzosa and Galeb Abu-Ali | Huttenhower Laboratory, Harvard School of Public Health |
| Wednesday | Amplicon Sequencing | Microbial Ecology | ||
| AM | Introduction to Amplicon Sequencing | Daniel McDonald and Yoshiki Vazquez Baeza | Knight Lab, BioFrontiers, Boulder, CO |
| PM | QIIME Laboratory | Daniel McDonald and Yoshiki Vazquez Baeza | Knight Lab, BioFrontiers, Boulder, CO |
| Thursday | Fundamental and Catching up | ||
| AM | Introduction to R | Staff | |
| PM | Open Metagenomics Lab (iPython Notebooks) | Everyone | |
| Friday | Transcriptomics | ||
| AM | Transcriptomics Lecture | Manuel Garber | University of Massachusetts, Medical School |
| PM | Transcriptomics Lab | Manuel Garber | University of Massachusetts, Medical School |