Your Instructors
We are members (or alumni) of the Iyer Lab.
- Anna Battenhouse, Associate Research Scientist, Iyer Lab, abattenhouse@utexas.edu
- Dr. Daechan Park, Post-doctoral fellow, Georgio Lab
- Nathan Abell, Research Assistant, Iyer Lab,
- Amelia Weber Hall, Graduate Student, Iyer Lab, ameliahall@utexas.edu
Goals
- Hands-on, tutorial style – learn by doing
- Cover the NGS tool basics – the first few things you'll do after receiving raw sequences
- Get you comfortable with Linux and TACC – your best "frenemies"
- Make you self sufficient in 4 days to become experts over time
- Show some "best practices" for working with NGS data
Communication
Post its
Green post-it – I'm good at the moment.
Pink post-it – I need a bit of help.
Etherpad
Link to Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/yUFlDtWv2c
Use this to post any questions you have about the lessons and tutorials.
About the Iyer Lab
- Main focus is functional genomics
- large-scale transciptional reprogramming in response to diverse stimuli
- Encode consortium collaborator
- Research methods include
- microarrays
- high-throughput sequencing
- Anna's background
- BA English literature, 1978
- Commercial software development 1982 – 2005
- Joined Iyer Lab 2007 (“retirement career”)
- BS Biochemistry 2013
