<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">The NXR would like to announce <span style="font-size: 12pt; ">the upcoming <b>Xenopus Bioinformatics Workshop</b> to be held May 14-20 here at the MBL. This workshop is specifically geared towards Xenopus and will be taught by Xenopus researchers. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">The instructors are Bob Freeman, Leon Peshkin and Mike Gilchrist. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">This course <span style="font-size: 12pt; ">is designed to provide hands on training and to teach you:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">-work with large datasets specific to Xenopus</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">-basic coding for data analysis in UNIX</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">-visualize data on genome browsers</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">-analyze Xenopus genomics</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">-analyze transcriptomics</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">-analyze proteomics data</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">For more information and to register go to the following link:</span></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus/workshop12.html</span></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Registration is now open and we encourage people to sign up as soon as possible as participation is limited to 25 individuals.</span></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Sincerely,</span></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">National Xenopus Resource</span></font></div><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span name="x"></span>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Marko Horb, Ph.D.<br>Director, National Xenopus Resource (NXR)<br>Marine Biological Laboratory<br>7 MBL Street<br>Woods Hole, MA 02543<br><br><div id="9a6d45ff-6717-4e68-a8e3-ee5585e629f0" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16px; ">Email: xenopus@mbl.edu<br></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Office: 508-289-7627</span></font><br><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Lab: 508-289-7370</span></font><br><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Cell: 508-564-3764</span><span name="x" style="font-size: 12pt; "></span></font><br></div><div id="9a6d45ff-6717-4e68-a8e3-ee5585e629f0" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus/index.html</span></div></div><br></div></body></html>