ISG CBC Workshop Schedule - 2025

Dates: November 18 - 20, 2025

Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm 

Location: Online

Cost:   $400 (UConn/UCH affiliates)

            $500 (External Participants)

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Workshop schedule

Day 1: Self-guided introduction to Linux and HPC (available 2 weeks ahead of workshop)

Day 2: Introduction to HTS, Genome Assembly Validation, File Format Basics, and Repeats

Day 3: Helixer annotation with no evidence, BRAKER annotation with protein evidence

Day 4: EASEL with RNA-seq evidence and annotation evaluation

Registration

Registration Link

Workshop FAQ

Who should attend?

Anyone with an interest in modern genomics methods. Prior course participants have included faculty, post docs, grad students, advanced undergraduates, staff, and industry researchers.

What are the prerequisites?

Prior bioinformatic experience is not required.  We have dedicated the first day of workshop to the basics of Linux and high performance computing.

What do I need?

You will need your own laptop to use, have a recent version of R, RStudio installed, and some other applications.  We will send you details of softwares and installation instructions with your registration acknowledgement email.

Can I bring my own data?

We will provide experimental datasets for use during the workshop, as this helps to keep the workshop moving. There will be time, however, to discuss your own datasets and how you might work with them outside of the workshop.

How much does it cost?

The registration fee is $500 and $400 for UConn affiliates. It is payable at the time of registration with credit card or KFS.

Where is the workshop?

It will be held on Microsoft Teams, and will run from 10:00am to 2:00pm EST on the dates indicated.

How do I apply?

All registration is “first-come, first-served.” There is no application process. Sign up as soon as possible to ensure your place in the workshop.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at cbcsupport@helpspotmail.com

Dates: December 15 - 18, 2025

Time: 10:00am - 4:30pm 

Location: In-Person

Cost:   $570 (UConn/UCH affiliates)

            $786 (External Participants)

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Workshop Description

Learn microbiome data processing from raw DNA sequences through generating publication-quality figures. We will cover how to quality control sequences, including lectures to help participants understand the wet lab work that goes into generating the sequences. After QC of sequences, we’ll cluster into OTUs and taxonomically ID each OTU. Once we’ve processed the sequences in mothur, we’ll move into an introduction to R and community ecology stats (multivariate, non-parametric stats that we use to analyze microbiome data). This workshop will focus on using mothur and R for reproducible research by learning statistical analyses and generating publication quality figures. No prior command line experience required.

Workshop schedule

Day 1: Introduction to communities, wet lab, command line, and mothur.

Day 2: Sequence quality control, alignment, and cluster into OTUs.

Day 3: Introduction to alpha/beta diversity, introduction to R, and graphing.

Day 4: Beta diversity, multivariate analyses, more graphing

Registration

Registration Link

Workshop FAQ

Who should attend?

Anyone with interest in microbial ecology or microbiome research. Prior course participants have included faculty, post docs, grad students, advanced undergraduates, staff, and industry researchers.

What are the prerequisites?

Prior bioinformatic or command line experience is not required.

What do I need?

You will need your own laptop to use, have an up-to-date version of R, RStudio installed, and a terminal. We will send you details of softwares and installation instructions with your registration acknowledgement email.

Can I bring my own data?

We will provide experimental datasets for use during the workshop, as this helps to keep the workshop moving. There will be time, however, to discuss your own datasets and how you might work with them outside of the workshop.

How much does it cost?

The registration fee is $786 and $570 for UConn affiliates. It is payable at the time of registration with credit card or KFS.

Where is the workshop?

It will be held in person, and will run from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm EST on the dates indicated.

How do I apply?

All registration is “first-come, first-served.” There is no application process. Sign up as soon as possible to ensure your place in the workshop.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at genomesupport@helpspotmail.com

Dates: December 16 - 18, 2025

Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm 

Location: Online

Cost:   $400 (UConn/UCH affiliates)

            $500 (External Participants)

Register

Workshop schedule

Day 1: Self-guided introduction to Linux and HPC (available 2 weeks ahead of workshop)

Day 2: Introduction to HTS, RAD-seq data and QC. File format basics. de novo RADseq variant calling with Stacks.

Day 3: Reference mapping-based variant calling with Stacks and Freebayes.

Day 4: Filtering and reformatting variant call sets. Basic population structure analyses and QC.

Registration

Registration Link

Workshop FAQ

Who should attend?

Anyone with interest in gene expression analyses.  Prior course participants have included faculty, post docs, grad students, advanced undergraduates, staff, and industry researchers.

What are the prerequisites?

Prior bioinformatic experience is not required.  We have dedicated the first day of workshop to the basics of Linux and high performance computing.

What do I need?

You will need your own laptop to use, have a recent version of R, RStudio installed, and some other applications.  We will send you details of softwares and installation instructions with your registration acknowledgement email.

Can I bring my own data?

We will provide experimental datasets for use during the workshop, as this helps to keep the workshop moving. There will be time, however, to discuss your own datasets and how you might work with them outside of the workshop.

How much does it cost?

The registration fee is $500 and $400 for UConn affiliates. It is payable at the time of registration with credit card or KFS.

Where is the workshop?

It will be held on Microsoft Teams, and will run from 10:00am to 2:00pm EST on the dates indicated.

How do I apply?

All registration is “first-come, first-served.” There is no application process. Sign up as soon as possible to ensure your place in the workshop.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at cbcsupport@helpspotmail.com

Dates: January 20 - 22, 2026

Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm 

Location: Online

Cost:   $400 (UConn/UCH affiliates)

            $500 (External Participants)

Register

Workshop schedule

Day 1: Self-guided introduction to Linux and HPC (available 2 weeks ahead of workshop)

Day 2: Introduction to HTS, variant calling basics. Reference alignment and QC.

Day 3: Introduction to variant calling models and common pipelines (GATK, Freebayes, BCFtools).

Day 4: Filtering and comparing variant call sets. Annotating variant call sets. Parallelizing large variant calling runs.

Registration

Registration Link

Workshop FAQ

Who should attend?

Anyone with interest in gene expression analyses.  Prior course participants have included faculty, post docs, grad students, advanced undergraduates, staff, and industry researchers.

What are the prerequisites?

Prior bioinformatic experience is not required.  We have dedicated the first day of workshop to the basics of Linux and high performance computing.

What do I need?

You will need your own laptop to use, have a recent version of R, RStudio installed, and some other applications.  We will send you details of softwares and installation instructions with your registration acknowledgement email.

Can I bring my own data?

We will provide experimental datasets for use during the workshop, as this helps to keep the workshop moving. There will be time, however, to discuss your own datasets and how you might work with them outside of the workshop.

How much does it cost?

The registration fee is $500 and $400 for UConn affiliates. It is payable at the time of registration with credit card or KFS.

Where is the workshop?

It will be held on Microsoft Teams, and will run from 10:00am to 2:00pm EST on the dates indicated.

How do I apply?

All registration is “first-come, first-served.” There is no application process. Sign up as soon as possible to ensure your place in the workshop.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at cbcsupport@helpspotmail.com