Picower Bioinformatics Monthly Workshop
Description
This workshop is suitable for postdocs and graduate students who would like to learn how to use Picower RNA-Seq Bioinformatics Resources. No prior knowledge in this field is needed to participate in this workshop. The workshop will consist of a short lecture followed by demonstrations.
Under the Picower director’s leadership, Bioinformatics unit has built a comprehensive RNA-Seq webserver/database for studying pathogenesis of neurodegeneration (Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease) and molecular basis of neural functions. Currently, the Picower RNA-Seq Database includes several hundred processed transcriptomic data generated from different neuronal cell types, cultured cell lines, brain tissues (e.g., hippocampal RNA-Seq data of CKp25 mice and control mice for studying Alzheimer’s disease). The database is updated monthly with newly publicly available transcriptomic data. A web-based browser interface (NeuGene) has been implemented for investigators to easily access the database and explore the genes of their research interests (AD, HD, neuronal activity, immune response, and etc.). Another web-based analyzer interface (NeuVenn) generates overlap plots and statistics for multiple sets of genes.
Please note that the workshop will last for 1 hour, and all the participants are REQUIRED to bring their own laptop computers for hands-on practice.
Speaker Bio
Fan Gao, Ph.D., The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT Fan is a staff bioinformatician with PILM. Before moving to MIT, Fan was working as a research associate at University of Southern California, with a joint appointment at Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute and Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research.