NESCent: The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

Courses at NESCent

NESCent offers a variety of courses and training sessions. Links to upcoming and current courses are available here and previous course listings remain on the site for reference purposes. For more information about listings for Informatics, contact Hilmar Lapp. For information about any other listings, contact Kristin Jenkins.

Informatics

Current

Computational Phyloinformatics

When: July 24 - August 4, 2008

Application Deadline: April 22, 2008

While books and courses on phylogenetics are common, it is harder to find information on how to script large-scale and complex analyses, or how to write your own scripts and programs. This course aims to address this gap by introducing these skills in a practical, hands-on setting at NESCent. This year's course focuses on hands-on training in Perl, Java, and R, three of the most popular languages in scripting and programming phylogenetic or comparative analysis workflows. The course is structured to allow students with less prior programming exposure to fully benefit from the material being taught.

Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies Workshop

When: June 20, 2008

Where: Evolution 2008, Minneapolis, MN

Application Deadline: Registration open to participants of the Evolution 2008 Meetings

The course is organized by NESCent and the National Center for Biomedical Ontologies (NCBO). “The workshop will focus on the application of ontologies in evolutionary biology and related disciplines, with a particular emphasis on studies of the phenotype.”

GMOD Summer School

When: July 11-13, 2008

Where: NESCent

Application Deadline: Limited enrollement

The first annual GMOD Summer School is a 2 1/2 day hands-on workshop aimed at teaching new GMOD users how to get up and running with popular GMOD components. There will also be a concurrent 1 day session aimed at principal investigators that will give decision makers a feel for what GMOD can do and what level of resources are needed to get a GMOD installation up and running.

Google Summer of Code

When: Summer 2008

Where: Participants' location

Application Deadline: Now accepting applications