<html><body><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hello Xenopus colleagues</div><div> The Bioinformatics workshop is being held May 11-18 this year. If you perform any RNA-Seq, proteomics, ChIP-Seq in your lab then this workshop is for you. You can be at any level (graduate student, postdoc or faculty). The deadline for registering is fast approaching. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">We have four faculty members this year, which means you will get plenty of one-on-one time with the faculty. You can bring your own data sets and analyze them at the workshop. If you are planning on doing some experiments with large data sets then don't delay come and learn the techniques now to ensure rapid progress when your RNA-Seq data comes in.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus/workshops/bioinformatics/">http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus/workshops/bioinformatics/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div> I am happy to announce that <strong>Xenopus 1</strong> has gladly offered a $250 scholarship for a person to attend the workshop. In addition, the NXR is matching this offer with its own $250 scholarship. We therefore have 2 spots available with a reduced rate, making a double room for 6 nights only $1250 and that includes room and board. We hope this encourages some of you who are hesitant to attend. To apply please send an email to <a href="mailto:xenopus@mbl.edu">xenopus@mbl.edu</a> with an outline of your work and the need for attending the workshop. A letter from your PI is also requested.</div><div><br></div><div> Last, I would like to highlight a few quotes from the PIs of previous attendees:</div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><em> "I have sent one student to the bioinformatics course and he loved the course and came back and was </em></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><em> immediately able to help many folks in the lab with bioinformatic issues."</em></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><em> "I have sent three lab members to the Bioinformatics workshop. These lab members have learned the </em></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><em> basic skills of genomic work and now routinely perform RNA-seq and ChIP-seq analyses."</em></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><em> "One of our post-docs attended the 2013 Bioinformatics workshop, and the training in RNA-seq analysis</em></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><em> and general bioinformatics approaches he learned have been crucial for our research on Xenopus tropicalis</em></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><em> embryo development. We are now pursuing several high-throughput sequencing projects--including </em></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><em> RNA-seq and ChIP-seq--in early Xenopus embryos, and the design of these experiments and analysis of</em></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><em> sequencing reads would not have been possible without the specialized knowledge he gained from the</em></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><em> Bioinformatics workshop."</em></span></div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to seeing you in a month</div><div><br></div><div>marko</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><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><div><br></div>Email: xenopus@mbl.edu<br>Office: 508-289-7627<br>Cell: 508-564-3764<br><div><br></div>http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus<br>https://twitter.com/xenopusnxr<span name="x"></span><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>