Hi SIO-BUG members,

We are planning to address our community’s desire for enlightened (and inspired) transcriptomics use by hosting two events in the coming spring and fall.

Part I on May 4th from 12-3pm in Hubbs 4500, will be an extended spring meeting, lead by John McCrow (JCVI, microbial and environmental genomics). Lisa Komoroske (NOAA, ecophysiology and genomics of aquatic animals) will also be in attendance. Please RSVP here if you are interested (there is a maybe option).

John will present an introduction to transcriptomics covering how & why of using transcriptomics as a tool - showing examples of the breadth and depth of its applications, and covering the all-important considerations about designing RNA-Seq experiments, addressing caveats and current challenges.

We will also have a discussion with anyone present (all levels- students, postocs, staff, and PIs- welcome!) about what their interests/plans are, where folks are at in the process, and individual and community needs.

This “Part 1” will guide our design of a later “Part 2” - a 2 day hands-on workshop to be held in late summer/early fall. If you are interested in the Part 2 workshop, please fill out this link here.

Sincerely, Sara R. Rivera

Hi folks,

There are 9 topic-centric workshops happening at UC Davis this summer - go here for registration and course details.

Week 1: July 10-15

• Genome Wide Association Study Workshop - Tamer Mansour and Erica Scott
• Undergraduate Curriculum Hackathon
• Introduction to Python - Emily Dolson
• Reproducible research with R/Data Hackathon - Chris Hamm
• Cloud Training Materials Development - Daniel Standage and Luiz Irber

Week 2: July 17-21

• Introduction to Transposon Insertion Sequencing Analysis (TNSeq/INSeq) - Mark Mandel
• Environmental Metagenomics - Harriet Alexander
• Non-model RNAseq, bring your own data - Tessa Pierce, Jane Khudyakov, and Lisa Cohen
• Introduction to R - Michael Koontz

– Tessa Pierce

Hello SIO-BUG Community,

It’s time for our monthly seminar!

Please join us next Monday, April 17th at 12 PM when we will hear from Dr. Jeff Bowman who will be sharing with us on “OTU-free community structure, metabolic inference, and meta-‘omic analysis with paprica”.

We will be in Hubbs Hall 4500 with coffee so bring a mug and your lunch if you wish and enjoy the Monday lunch hour with us.

Also keep in mind our final seminar of the quarter will be May 8th with Dr. Amro Hamdoun.

Hope to see many of you next week!

Best, Tiago and Lauren