WHEN: Held over 3 Fridays from 10am – 2:45pm; Sept. 12, Sept. 19th, & Sept. 26th.

  Note: We will record the sessions if you have to miss part of a day and make it up later.

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 a brief 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 from any University/organization (different rates apply; see COST section).

PREREQUISITES: A beginner knowledge of bash (a.k.a command line linux), high-performance computing, and R programming is required to take this workshop. After your registration, we will provide details and materials on how to fulfill these requirements on your own time. This is a fast-paced workshop; while it will reasonable to ask questions about bash, HPC, and R if you forget something, it is not possible for us to catch you up if you haven’t reviewed any prerequisite material.

WHERE: It will be held online via Zoom.

COST: $375 for University of Illinois (UIUC, UIC, & UIS) employees, students, and affiliates. $450 for other State of Illinois Public Universities. $493.88 for all other institutions.

HOW:  U of Illinois (UIUC, UIC, UIS) students and employees may register HERE. All others may register HERE. Registration deadline is September 7th!