Important information
Please note, you will be required to bring your own laptop for the purposes of this workshop.

What is this workshop about?
Our goal is to help scientists become more productive by teaching them basic computing skills like program design, version control, testing and task automation. In this two-day bootcamp, short tutorials will alternate with hands-on practical exercises. Participants will be encouraged both to help one another, and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions.

What are the objectives of the course?
You will learn to:

• use the shell to do more in less time
• automate your tasks and pipelines
• write structured programs
• use Git to manage and share information
• how (and how much) to test programs

Target Audience
The course is aimed at researchers in the life science and computational science disciplines at all career stages. We particularly encourage students and post-doctoral scientists to attend, but the course is open to everyone.

Prerequisites
This is aimed at trainees with very little or no prior knowledge of programming.

A four-day workshop designed to promote interdisciplinary collaborations and networking between cell signaling researchers from many different fields and backgrounds, in particular between bench and computational. The event follows on from the successful 1st Interdisciplinary Signaling Workshop organised in Visegrad in 2014.

Morning sessions include talks from invited experts and selected from other participants. These are complemented by afternoon and evening sessions of small-group project work, social and cultural activities, and poster sessions. The workshop brings together participants to work and socialise in the beautiful surroundings of the Renaissance city of Visegrad, using sessions and activities specifically designed to promote interactions between participants. This provides a special and unconventional context for building bridges between researchers from different disciplines, and supporting the professional development in particular of early career researchers in this field to help them become more adept at working in and building interdisciplinary collaborations.

What is the workshop about?

Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the British Council and South African National Research Foundation will be holding a workshop on Bionformatics and Wheat Genomics in Worcester, South Africa on 26 – 28 June 2017. The workshop is being coordinated by Dr Diane Saunders and Dr Renée Prins, and will have contributions from other leading researchers who will act as mentors. We are now inviting Early Career Researchers (see application form for eligibility criteria) from the UK and South Africa to apply to attend this workshop.

All travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by the Newton Fund Researcher Links programme. Please see here for more details on the initiative and the eligibility criteria. If you fit the criteria please complete the application form which should be returned to wheatgenomics@jic.ac.uk before/on the deadline of 15th March 2017 (12h00 UK time).

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Target Audience

Early career researchers

Eligibility criteria

Application form

Click here for our Single Cell Symposium 2019 event.

Developments in single cell genomics technologies have enabled the dissection of biological processes in unprecedented detail, with broad ranging applications in the study of microbial genomics as well as plant and human health and disease. Technologies enabling the analysis of 100s-1000s of single cells in individual experiments are becoming routine, and the diversity of techniques available to analyse the genomes, epigenomes and transcriptomes of single cells continues to increase at pace.

The Norwich Single Cell Symposium aims to bring researchers curious about single cell genomics together with external speakers presenting advanced single cell research, to highlight the developing single cell capabilities available at Earlham Institute and to act as a platform to catalyse future development and application of single cell genomics approaches in the region.

This one-day event will feature talks from external and internal speakers, covering topics including:

• Technology development in Single Cell Genomics
• Single Cell Genomics in Developmental Biology
• Single Cell Genomics in Health and Disease
• Applications of Single Cell Genomics in Plant Sciences
• Analysis of Single Cell Genomics Data