Academic and Professional Skills

2018 Nov 28

Analyzing NGS Data: Standard data processing and workflow analysis on high powered computing environment

10:00am to 1:00pm

Location: 

Countway Floor L2: 025

The NGS technologies have the potential to dramatically accelerate biomedical research by enabling
comprehensive analysis of genomes and transcriptomes to become inexpensive, routine, and
widespread tools. This workshop will focus on methods for base‐calling and variant‐calling, for aligning
reads to reference sequences (e.g. genomes), and for de novo assembly of short reads into longer
sequences. The following tools will be covered on Orchestra, a shared research cluster; quality reports
of FASTQ files, trimming and filtering of reads, alignment and coverage objects such...

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2018 Nov 29

Alda Center for Science Communication Plenary Session

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

NRB 350
Are you interested in improving your science communication skills using a method developed by Alan Alda (yes, from M*A*S*H)? The Alda center uses improvisation-based techniques to train science professionals to communicate about science. Their workshops draw from Alda's years of experience in improv comedy and his experience hosting the PBS series, Scientific American Frontiers. You can read more about the Alda center here: https://www.aldacenter.org/ We've heard from others in the scicomm community that the Alda Center's workshops and... Read more about Alda Center for Science Communication Plenary Session
2018 Oct 18

Teaching and Learning Week at HGSE

(All day)

Dear Friends,

I am delighted to announce that the sixth annual Teaching and Learning Week at HGSE will be held from Monday, October 15 to Friday, October 19.  A website containing comprehensive information about all Teaching and Learning Week activities will be shared in the coming week.

Teaching and Learning Week offers a variety of engaging opportunities for faculty, students, and staff to share and explore effective teaching and learning ...

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2018 Oct 26

Reproducibility for Everyone

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Countway Library, Classroom #403

Countway Library Open Access Week Program 

eLife Ambassadors Workshop

Sponsored by Countway Library, Office for Postdoctoral Fellows, eLife Ambassadors

Join eLife Ambassadors’ workshop on practical approaches to achieving rigour and reproducibility in science! The workshop is designed to provide actionable advice, equipping participants with tools that they can implement in their own work. 

The workshop is part of a larger initiative to help researchers...

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2018 Oct 26

For reproducibility, we need the methods behind the data: A hands-on workshop with protocols.io

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Countway Library, Classroom #403

Countway Library Open Access Week Program 

protocols.io Workshop

Sponsored by Countway Library, Office for Postdoctoral Fellows

The recent attention to the challenges of reproducibility is new, but the problem itself is as old as science. Fortunately, over the past decade, a range of tools and resources have been created to help scientists communicate more easily and clearly, helping to make our work easier to build on, for ourselves and other researchers.

This workshop will...

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2018 Oct 24

Introduction to Amazon Cloud and UNIX basics

10:30am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Countway Floor L2: 025

Introduction to Amazon Cloud and UNIX basics

This workshop is an introduction to Amazon cloud Computing and UNIX basics. The workshop will help you to get setup and build windows or unix computer on Amazon cloud computing. Attendees will be exposed to hands‐on experience and by the end of the course one should be able to confidently use the command line interface on Unix system. They should be able also be to navigate around the Unix file system from the command line and use a number of basic Unix commands.

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2018 Oct 10

Affymetrix and Illumina microarray data analysis using R/Bioconductor

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Countway Floor L2: 025

Affymetrix and Illumina microarray data analysis using R/Bioconductor

The course is a general introduction to Microarrays and the use of R/Bioconductor to carry out microarray data analysis. Following introduction the workshop starts with hands‐on exercise on how to install R and Bioconductor GUI packages. The course is mainly based on the use of Bioconductor open source packages for analyzing single channel and two channel data sets. Only basic R coding will be introduced since most the analysis are performed using OneChannelGUI, a graphical interface to Bioconductor tools...

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2018 Oct 22

Practical Steps for Increasing Openness and Reproducibility: A Day of Open Science

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location: 

Countway Library: Lahey Room #518

Countway Library Open Access Week Program

Open Science Framework Workshop

Sponsored by Countway Library, Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science (HiTS), Office of Basic Science

There are many actions researchers can take to increase the openness and reproducibility of their work. Please join us for a day-long workshop, hosted by the Center for Open Science, to learn easy, practical steps to increase the reproducibility of your work. The workshop will be hands-on and is aimed at graduate...

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2018 Oct 25

Countway Presents: Sharing Research: PrePrints & Data

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Countway Library, Ballard Room #503

Sponsored by Countway Library, Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science (HiTS), HMS Office of Basic Science

Growth of the open science movement has drawn significant attention to data sharing and availability across the scientific community. However, many researchers are encountering both technical (lack of resources and tools) and cultural (sensitive data, uncomfortable sharing) difficulties in the application of this exciting new approach.

In this session we will hear from four professionals on their work to bring new research...

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