Practical Guide for Designing Genetically Engineered Mice
The class will cover strategies for designing genetically engineered mice. The allele types to be covered include null alleles, point mutations, conditional alleles, and reporter knock-ins.
William Shawlot (Director, Mouse Genetic Engineering Facility, CBRS)
Bill Shawlot received his Ph.D. from the Baylor College of Medicine and did his post-doctoral training with Richard Behringer at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of Minnesota, studying mammalian embryogenesis before joining the Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine (TIGM) to help lead TIGM’s efforts in the International Knockout Mouse Consortium program. He has over 30 years of experience in the transgenic mouse field and serves on the External Advisory Committee for the NIH’s Mutant Mouse Resource and Research Center program.
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Free
Advanced Bash Scripting
This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on experience in a shared computing environment. The course will cover advanced topics in writing Bash shell scripts, providing tips, examples and best practices for creating robust “pipeline scripts” that execute multiple processing steps. Topics include defining functions, argument processing and defaulting, error checking, effective use of utilities such as awk and grep, as well as subtleties of UNIX streams and text manipulation.
Prerequisites:
Intermediate Unix or equivalent experience. Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.
Anna Battenhouse (Bioinformatics Consultant and Biomedical Research Computing Facility Manager)
Anna Battenhouse is a research scientist in the lab of Dr. Edward Marcotte, is a Bioinformatics Consultant, and leads the Biomedical Research Computing Facility in its mission to support the IT and computational needs of the UT Austin biomedical research community. She has extensive experience working with NGS data, develops and maintains analysis scripts for the Bioinformatics Consulting Group, and teaches the Introduction to NGS Tools course in the Big Data in Biology Summer School as well as several CBRS short courses.
If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.
For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.
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$50 (includes both days)
Intermediate Unix
This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on practice in a shared computing environment. Topics will build on those in the introductory course, including more on the filesystem, the Bash shell, and text processing on the command line. The course will emphasize manipulating text using standard Linux utilities and stringing commands together using pipes. We’ll also introduce some of the powerful Linux utilities such as cut, sort, grep and awk, with the goal of continuing the climb up the steep Linux learning curve.
Prerequisites:
Introduction to Unix or equivalent experience. Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.
Anna Battenhouse (Bioinformatics Consultant and Biomedical Research Computing Facility Manager)
Anna Battenhouse is a research scientist in the lab of Dr. Edward Marcotte, is a Bioinformatics Consultant, and leads the Biomedical Research Computing Facility in its mission to support the IT and computational needs of the UT Austin biomedical research community. She has extensive experience working with NGS data, develops and maintains analysis scripts for the Bioinformatics Consulting Group, and teaches the Introduction to NGS Tools course in the Big Data in Biology Summer School as well as several CBRS short courses.
If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.
For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.
Ways to avoid this are: use the ProCard after 24 hours have passed, or the student may use their credit card and be reimbursed later through the usual UT accounting methods, or process the registration with an IDT, otherwise known as an Interdepartmental Transfer (talk to someone in your department that handles the accounts).
$50 (includes both days)
Introduction to Unix
This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on practice in a shared computing environment. Participants will learn the basics of using UNIX from the command line. Introductory topics include manipulating text files using standard UNIX utilities, how to string utilities together, and how to output the results to files. The goal of the course is to develop some basic comfort at the command line, get a sense of what’s possible, and learn how to find help.
Prerequisites:
Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.
Anna Battenhouse (Bioinformatics Consultant and Biomedical Research Computing Facility Manager)
Anna Battenhouse is a research scientist in the lab of Dr. Edward Marcotte, is a Bioinformatics Consultant, and leads the Biomedical Research Computing Facility in its mission to support the IT and computational needs of the UT Austin biomedical research community. She has extensive experience working with NGS data, develops and maintains analysis scripts for the Bioinformatics Consulting Group, and teaches the Introduction to NGS Tools course in the Big Data in Biology Summer School as well as several CBRS short courses.
If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.
For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.
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$50 (includes both days)
Introduction to Light Microscopy
Light microscopy allows scientists to visualize and analyze the structure and function of biological and material samples. In this class, Quinn will cover the fundamentals of fluorescence and image resolution; the theory behind a variety of microscopy techniques, including confocal, spinning disk confocal, TIRF, multiphoton, and super-resolution microscopes; applications of these techniques; and best practices for imaging experiments.
Quinn Lee (Light Microscopy Specialist)
Quinn Lee has over 8 years of experience with advanced microscopy techniques. She joined the Microscopy and Flow Cytometry Facility as Light Microscopy Specialist after earning her PhD at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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$20
Statistical Modeling for Biologists
This course will survey some of the basic principles of statistics crucial to the modeling of biological data. Specific topics will include measures of correlation, hypothesis testing, false discovery rate adjustment, and applications and generalizations of linear models.
Dennis Wylie (Co-Director, Bioinformatics Consulting Group, CBRS)
Dennis Wylie joined the Bioinformatics group in 2015. He has experience in NGS data analysis including variant calling and RNA-Seq-based biomarker discovery and predictive modeling (classification, regression, etc.). Prior to UT, he earned a PhD in Biophysics from UC Berkeley applying stochastic simulation methods to problems in immunology, did postdoctoral work modeling the transmission of infectious disease, and spent six years as a bioinformatician in industry.
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$50
Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing Services at the GSAF
This course will offer an introduction into the services provided by the Genomic Sequencing and Analysis Facility available to researchers at the University of Texas. The course will cover the platforms and services available, best practices and how to submit samples to the core.
Jessica Podnar (Director, Genomic Sequencing and Analysis Facility, CBRS)
Jessica Podnar joined the GSAF in 2010, prior to UT she worked at a biotech company focused on drug discovery and telomere biology. She has almost 20 years experience in cell and molecular biology and has been part of the rapidly changing field of Next Generation Sequencing for most of her career. She is familiar with an assortment of NGS technologies and is always ready to support new projects.
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For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.
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$10
Introduction to Single Cell Data Analysis
This course provides an introduction to the bioinformatics analysis of single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data, with a particular focus on methods especially appropriate for analysis of 10X Genomics data. Differences between bulk RNA-seq and scRNA-seq will be discussed in order to develop understanding of both what new methods are required versus what established RNA-seq analysis methods can be retained. A typical workflow for single cell RNA-seq analysis using Seurat will be presented.
Dennis Wylie (Co-Director, Bioinformatics Consulting Group, CBRS)
Dennis Wylie joined the Bioinformatics group in 2015. He has experience in NGS data analysis including variant calling and RNA-Seq-based biomarker discovery and predictive modeling (classification, regression, etc.). Prior to UT, he earned a PhD in Biophysics from UC Berkeley applying stochastic simulation methods to problems in immunology, did postdoctoral work modeling the transmission of infectious disease, and spent six years as a bioinformatician in industry.
If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.
For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.
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$50
Introduction to Flow Cytometry Analysis & Cell Sorting
Flow cytometry allows for rapid, simultaneous analysis of multiple parameters of single cells, which can then be sorted into individual populations according to these parameters. In this class, Richard will cover flow cytometry and cell sorting technology, applications of these techniques, best practices for experiments, the use of spectral flow cytometry for complex antibody panels, the fundamentals of performing compensation, and methods for presenting flow cytometry data.
Richard Salinas (Senior Flow Cytometry Specialist)
Richard Salinas has over 20 years of experience in flow cytometry with multiple cell analyzer and sorting platforms: BD Biosciences, Sony Biotechnology, Cytek Biosciences and Beckman-Coulter. He also has extensive data analysis experience in using FlowJo and FCS Express software.
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$20