Dear colleagues - After receiving overwhelming interest we are excited to announce that we will be teaching three workshops on Methods in Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics at the Mote Tropical Research Laboratory, Florida Keys.
Metabarcoding of Symbiont Communities June 15 - June 20 Whole-genome genotyping with 2bRAD June 20 - June 27 Global gene expression profiling with tag-based RNA-Seq June 27 - July 5 To learn more about the specifics of each workshop, please go to our website: http://www.bio.utexas.edu/research/matz_lab/matzlab/MEGA2014.html Prerequisites The workshops aim at researchers at or above graduate-level actively working in the field of evolution and/or ecology. Practical molecular biology experience, however limited, will be helpful. People with earlier experience with metabarcoding, RNA-seq and RAD are welcome: we use the latest wet-lab methods and analysis protocols developed in the Matz lab, which would be very useful even for an experienced practitioner. The students will need to bring your own laptop with installed R and (for PC users) SSH terminal application. To enroll By April 30, 2014, send an email with MEGA 2014 in the subject line to all the instructors (Mikhail Matz <[email protected]>, Sarah Davies <[email protected]>, Rachel Wright <[email protected]>), indicating your interest, and a short description of your research focus (or simply references to your relevant publications). Please specify how likely you are to participate, assuming that you will have to pay the workshops fee by May 15 (more details on making payments will be provided here later). Each part of the workshop is limited to 12 participants, first come first serve (assuming the prerequisites are met). Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions. Best regards, Mikhail V. Matz: [email protected] Sarah W. Davies: [email protected] Rachel M. Wright: [email protected]
