Diary

Title: Dealing with NGS Data - Differential Expression

Speaker 1: Michal Zulcinski (PhD candidate - FMH) Title: Understanding the molecular pathogenesis and landscape of immune cell infiltration in giant cell arteritis Speaker 2: Jeni Sidwell (PhD candidate - FBS) Title: Investigating eco-evolutionary dynamics with experimental and genomics approaches

Topic: Basics statistics within R

Speaker: Dr Shairah Abdul Razak (FBS) Title: Omics-based strategies in conservation biology research

Topic: Accessing & downloading data from online databases

Topic: ggplot2 for nice charts within R

Speaker: Dr Nicky Whiffin - University of Oxford (https://rarediseasegenomics.org/) Title: 5’ untranslated regions, translational regulation, and rare disease

Speakers: Abigail Byford (FMH) Title: Developing models of temporal maternal glucose fluctuations in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes and large for gestational age infants

Speaker: Dr Matt Bawn - FBS (https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/biological-sciences/staff/2615/dr-matt-bawn) Title: The best of all possible worlds: drivers of diversity across scales in bacterial populations

Topic: Dealing with NGS data: mapping reads.