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Workshop on Metagenomics at Harvard Medical School
September 14, 2015 @ 8:00 am - September 18, 2015 @ 5:00 pm
Monday, September 14 – Friday, September 18
Morning Sessions 9:00 – 12:00 | Afternoon Sessions 1:00 – 4:00
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115
The Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, in collaboration with the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, and the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at MGH, will be sponsoring a week-long workshop focused exclusively on computational approaches to metagenomic analysis. This intensive, hands-on course will feature morning and afternoon sessions taught by expert faculty and technical assistants from the Broad Institute, the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, MIT, and Washington University, St. Louis. All participants will acquire skills in fundamental computational methods, study design, data interpretation, and overall literacy in bioinformatic analysis useful for the analysis of amplicon-based and metagenomic data sets. This is a metagenomics workshop and not a general bioinformatics workshop; no previous experience is required.
Presented by:
Harvard University Center for AIDS Research
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at MGH
A registration fee of $350 will be required. Breakfast, lunch, and access to Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure are included. A networking social event will be held for all participants who complete the workshop.
Workshop Schedule:
Monday
AM: Introduction to Sequencing Technologies and Sequencing Study Design
PM: Introduction to Unix (laboratory)
Tuesday
AM: OTU Picking Strategies
PM: Introduction to QIIME/Quality Control, OTU Picking, Demultiplexing (laboratory)
Wednesday
AM: Microbiome Analysis and Microbial Ecology
PM: Intro to R and ggplot2 (laboratory)
Thursday
AM: Analysis of Microbial Communities with Phyloseq (laboratory)
PM: Phyloseq and R extension (laboratory)
Friday
AM: Metagenomics Analysis
PM: Metagenomics Workshop
