Your Instructors
We are members (or alumni) of the functional genomics lab of Vishwanath Iyer, UT Austin.
- Anna Battenhouse, Associate Research Scientist, Iyer Lab, abattenhouse@utexas.edu
- Dr. Daechan Park, Post-doctoral fellow, Georgio Lab
- Nathan Abell, Research Assistant, Iyer Lab, abell.nathan@gmail.com
- 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
- work in human and yeast
- Research methods include
- high-throughput sequencing (since 2007)
- especially ChIP-seq
- also RNA-seq, RIP-seq, MNase-seq ...
- we now have > 1,200 NGS datasets
- Anna's background
- BA English literature, 1978
- Commercial software development 1982 – 2005
- Joined Iyer Lab 2007 (“retirement career”)
- BS Biochemistry, 2013
