Agenda

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The dates for all 12 sessions in the Emerging Approaches for Tumor Analyses in Epidemiological Studies course have been finalized! Please mark them down in your calendar so you can be sure not to miss them.

All sessions begin at 9:30am with a lecture component ending at 10:30am, followed by a practical session starting from 10:45am and ending at 12pm. “Ask a Bioinformatician” help sessions will run for 2 hours from 9:30am to 11:30am.

Module 1

Nov. 2, 2022: Introduction to Computing Clusters and Bioinformatics
Nov. 9, 2022: Public databases
Nov. 16, 2022: DNA sequencing strategies and quality control
Nov. 23, 2022: “Ask a Bioinformatician” I

Module 2

Jan. 11, 2023: Mutation calling and analysis
Jan. 18, 2023: Mutational signatures
Jan. 25, 2023: Structural variant (SV) analysis
Feb. 1, 2023: “Ask a Bioinformatician” II

Module 3

Mar. 8, 2023: Somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs)
Mar. 13, 2023: Identifying cancer drivers
Mar. 28, 2023: Tumor evolution - new date
Mar. 29, 2023: “Ask a Bioinformatician” III

Module 4

Apr. 26, 2023: Transcriptome-based study designs
May 3, 2023: RNA-seq data mining
May 15, 2023: Data visualization approaches
May 17, 2023: “Ask a Bioinformatician” IV