2024 Schedule

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Classes are held from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (central time).

LIVE CONTENT

8:30-8:45AM

8:45-9:45AM

10-10:30AM

10:30AM-12:15PM

1:15-2:45PM

3:00-5:00PM

6/24
Mon

Welcome & IntroductionGenome Assembly
Chris Fields
(lecture)
Lab IntroductionGenome Assembly Lab

(self-paced)
Polymorphisms & Association Tests
Alex Lipka
pdf | pptx
(lecture)
Polymorphisms & Association Tests Lab

(synchronous)

8:30-10AM

10:15AM-12:15PM

1:15-2:45PM

3:00-5:00PM

6/25
Tues

Clinical Variant Interpretation
Joe Farris
(lecture)
Clinical Variant Interpretation Lab
Joe Farris
(synchronous)
Bulk RNA-Sequencing Analyses
Jessica Holmes
(lecture)
Bulk RNA-Sequencing Analyses Lab

(self-paced)

8:30-10:30AM

10:45AM-12:15PM

1:15-2:45PM

3:00-5:00PM

6/26
Wed

RNA-Seq in Hereditary Disease Diagnosis
Collin Osborne
(lecture & lab)
Microbiome Bionformatics
Lu Yang, Jun Chen
(lecture)
Basic Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics
Jenny Drnevich
(lecture)
Basic Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Lab

(self-paced)

8:30-10AM

10:15AM-12:15PM

1:15-2:45PM

3:00-5:00PM

6/27
Thurs

Clinical Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics
Yan Asmann
(lecture)
Clinical Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Lab

(self-paced)
Regulatory Genomics
Charles Blatti

(lecture)
Regulatory Genomics Lab

(self-paced)

6/28
Fri

Exploring AI
Priyam Mazumdar
(lecture)
Exploring AI Lab
Priyam Mazumdar
(synchronous)
Clinical Applications of AI
Irbaz Riaz, YooJung Choi, Kenneth Kehl
(lecture)
Clinical Applications of AI Lab
Umair Ayub, Syed Naqvi, Mihir Parmar
(synchronous)

BREAKS

Monday | 9:45-10AM
Wednesday | 10:30-10:45AM
Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday | 10-10:15AM
Lunch break | 12:15-1:15PM daily
PM break | 2:45-3PM daily
ON DEMAND CONTENT
Variant Calling
Chris Fields
(lecture)
Systems Biology
Charles Blatti
(lecture)

Pre-Course Requirements

Please spend some time familiarizing yourself with the programs we will be using in the course.

RNA-Seq in Hereditary Disease Diagnosis lab session requires a google account to participate. If you do not already have a Google account you will need to sign up for one. Setting up an account is quick and easy and can be done here: https://www.google.com/account/about/

Tutorials & Optional Background Reading

RStudio: http://tryr.codeschool.com/ ; http://www.r-tutor.com/r-introduction

For the Clinical Variant Interpretation Module:
Overview of Specifications to the ACMG/AMP Variant Interpretation Guidelines
https://currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cphg.93

Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
https://www.nature.com/articles/gim201530

For additional information on R and RStudio:
https://moderndive.netlify.pp/1-getting-started.html

For the module on “RNAseq in Hereditary Disease Diagnosis”:
Improving genetic diagnosis in Mendelian disease with transcriptome sequencing:
https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/386/eaal5209.short

OUTRIDER: A Statistical Method for Detecting Aberrantly Expressed Genes in RNA Sequencing Data:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929718304014

LeafCutterMD: an algorithm for outlier splicing detection in rare diseases:
https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa259/5823301

A tailored approach to fusion transcript identification increases diagnosis of rare inherited disease:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223337