Note: You can register for each workshop separately, or get access to all 3 for a reduced price

Summer Bioinformatics Workshop series is being organized in collaboration with Dr. Iqbal’s Lab at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Pine Biotech. The series consists of three hands-on workshops:

• Next Generation Sequencing and Precision Oncology
• Systems-biology and Precision Oncology
• Single-Cell-Resolution in Precision Oncology

Purpose of this workshop series: To introduce students and post-docs to analytical techniques utilized in oncology research. These methods are widely utilized across top US universities and include:

• processing, analysis and interpretation of omics data
• integration of multi-omics data and systems biology interpretation
• single cell analysis of multi-omics datasets

Why should you join these workshops:

• find, evaluate and upload the data to the setver
• understand the types of omics data available and their meta-data
• analyze the processed data for associations useful to answer your research question
• mine big datasets like TCGA for hypothesis-generating insights
• utilize a streamlined environment to process and integrate your data with public-domain datasets

Workshop 1: Next Generation Sequencing and Precision Oncology

University of Nebraska Medical Center, July 10, 2019

Full-day workshop (10 AM-12 PM, 1 PM – 3 PM)

General introduction to -omics studies in oncology: cell lines, animal models and patients

• DNA and RNA variation In Cancer Biology
• Sensitivity and Specificity using multi-omics
• Using omics data to diagnose, stratify patients and identify risk
• Using animal models and cell lines to model patient condition

Workshop 2: Systems-biology and Precision Oncology

University of Nebraska Medical Center, July 23, 2019

Full-day workshop (10 AM-12 PM, 1 PM – 3 PM)

Overview of Multi-omics integration methods in comparison to single-omics profiling

• DNA Variation (germline and somatic mutations, copy number variation)
• Transcriptome (Genes, Isoforms and non-coding RNAs)
• Epigenetics (ChIP-Seq, Bisulfite-seq)
• Multi-omics integration with supervised and unsupervised machine learning

Workshop 3: Single-Cell Resolution in Precision Oncology

University of Nebraska Medical Center, August 6, 2019

Full-day workshop (10 AM-12 PM, 1 PM – 3 PM)

Cancer in organs and tissues: new opportunities and challenges with single-cell data

• Different cell types in tissues and organs
• Single cell sequencing methods (overview of data types)
• Where to find markers and differentiate cells
• Deconvolution of bulk omics (example with RNA seq)