Location: University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Special Features: Special topics will include one-day R workshop and panel discussion on online teaching
American Society for Microbiology
Florida Branch
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr. Briana Burton
Assistant Professor of Bacteriology
Department of Bacteriology
University of Wisconsin – Madison
The title of the seminar will be:
Genes without Borders: Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Bacterial DNA Uptake
Dr. Jack Fell
Professor Emeritus
Department of Marine Biology and Ecology
University of Miami
Dr. Fell will discuss his extensive career on the role of fungi in marine food webs
WORKSHOPS
The R Project for Statistical Computing
Date: October 14th Location: University of Miami
The workshop will be taught by Dr. Ana Conesa of the University of Florida and will provide basic fundamental instructions associated with using R and target those students (and potentially principle investigators) who may want to learn new tools to help analyze and visualize their own big data sets (e.g. genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics).
Space in the workshop will be limited. When registering please indicate your interest in the workshop and the first 20 people will be enrolled in the workshop.