Upcoming Workshops

Microbial Profiling Analysis Workshop!

WHAT: This workshop will teach attendees how to analyze rRNA amplicon (e.g. 16S, 18S, ITS...) microbiome datasets for the purpose of investigating the presence and diversity of microorganisms. After an introduction to microbial profiling, attendees will be provided a practice data set, and begin processing and filtering the sequenced reads on a high performance computational cluster (Biocluster), and then will cluster these reads into amplicon sequence variants (ASVs). In R, attendees will learn how to perform common statistical analyses and create informative visualizations to investigate abundance and diversity of microorganisms present in the data set.

WHO: Intended for graduate students, post-docs, research staff, and faculty. If you are not affiliated with UIUC you'll be able to email hpcbio-training@biotech.illinois.edu for alternative sign-up information when registration opens.

PRE-REQUISITES: Beginner knowledge of bash (a.k.a command line linux) and R programming. Some knowledge of computational clusters. We will have asynchronous materials available for learning these topics, but you need to know them before the start of the workshop.

WHERE: This will be held in-person in a computer lab. Exact location TBD.

WHEN: 3 half days in either March or April 2025.

COST: TBD

HOW: Sign-up coming soon. Seats limited to 25 attendees.