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

http://iyerlab.org/

• Main focus is functional genomics
  • large-scale transciptional reprogramming in response to diverse stimuli
  • Encode consortium collaborator
• Research methods include
  • microarrays

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  • high-throughput sequencing

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• Anna's background
  • BA English literature, 1978
  • Commercial software development 1982 – 2005
  • Joined Iyer Lab 2007 (“retirement career”)
  • BS Biochemistry 2013