When:  Nov. 4, 2016 - Nov. 5, 2016 Where:  Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona   Members of the QIIME development group, led by Greg Caporaso and Antonio Gonzalez, will teach a two-day workshop on bioinformatics tools for microbial ecology. The workshop will include lectures covering basic QIIME usage and theory, and hands-on work with QIIME to perform microbiome analysis from raw sequence data through publication-quality statistics and visualizations. The workshop will also cover related bioinformatics tools including Qiita, DADA2, Emperor, scikit-bio and An Introduction to…

When most people think about microbes, they think disease. For well over 100 years the medical community’s mantra has been that “the only good bug is a dead bug.” But the functions of the human body rely not only on our own cells, but on the intricate interplay between complex communities of bacteria, archaea, viruses and microscopic eukaryotes living within us. Its overall health and wellbeing is a reflection of the interactions and balance among these many microbial mini-ecosystems and…

The Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE) and Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL) at the University of Oregon, are pleased to announce the launch of the the Health + Energy Research Consortium!  On May 4-5, 2017, in Portland Oregon, we begin our journey to dramatically reduce energy consumption and maximize human health by conducting research that transforms the design, construction and operation of built environments. This collaboration between innovative industry professionals and academic researchers in the disciplines of…

UC Davis Bioinformatics RNA-Seq Workshop!   June 19-23, 2017 Now in its 10th year, the UC Davis Bioinformatics Core Training Program will present a week-long RNA-Seq Workshop here in Davis in June! This workshop will include a rich collection of lectures and hands-on sessions, covering both theory and tools associated with command-line RNA-seq data analysis. Participants will explore experimental design, cost estimation, data generation, and analysis of RNA-Seq data generated on the Illumina sequencing platform. You will use your own…

Summer Institute in Data Intensive Biology (http://ivory.idyll.org/dibsi/)__, we will be running nine week-long computational workshops from July 10 to July 17 on campus at UC Davis. Week 1: July 10-15 * Genome Wide Association Study Workshop - http://ivory.idyll.org/dibsi/workshops.html#genome-wide-association-study-workshop - Tamer Mansour and Erica Scott * Undergraduate Curriculum Hackathon - http://ivory.idyll.org/dibsi/workshops.html#undergraduate-curriculum-hackathon * Introduction to Python - http://ivory.idyll.org/dibsi/workshops.html#introduction-to-python - Emily Dolson * Reproducible research with R/Data Hackathon - http://ivory.idyll.org/dibsi/workshops.html#reproducible-research-with-r-data-hackathon - Chris Hamm * Cloud Training Materials Development - http://ivory.idyll.org/dibsi/workshops.html#cloud-training-materials-development - Daniel Standage…

DNA Synthesis Program at the JGI 2017 Microbial and Plant Systems Modulated by Secondary Metabolites meeting organized by the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) on July 24-26, 2017. Web site: http://www.cvent.com/d/g5qjhs   You will find the list of confirmed speakers through the below link. http://jgi.doe.gov/events/2017-microbial-plant-systems-modulated-secondary-metabolites-meeting/   This year, Professor Jo Handelsman kindly agreed to give a keynote presentation. Professor Handelsman is the Director of Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID) at University of Wisconsin Madison. She was appointed by President Barack Obama as the Associate Director for Science…