Fall 2024 PreMiEr Educational Workshops
PreMiEr is excited to offer the following workshops and educational activities to faculty and scholars within the ERC. These workshops are offered by PreMiEr faculty through the Engineering Workforce Development (EWD) foundation of PreMiEr, or in partnership with external collaborators.
Fall 2024 Offerings
PreMiEr Workshops
The following workshops are available to PreMiEr faculty and scholars, or students affiliated with PreMiEr faculty lab groups, and may be registered for individually. Registration for these workshops is currently closed.
August 26 | Biology & Microbiomes
Virtual (Zoom) | 1 – 4 pm.
Taught by Dr. Misty Thomas of N.C. A&T, this workshop is intended to give a broad overview of biological topics related to microbiome research. The intended audience is PreMiEr members with expertise outside of biology or microbiology, or those looking for a refresher on those topics.
Registration closes: August 21
September 9 | Overview of Microbiome Lab Techniques
Virtual (Zoom) | 1 – 4 pm.
Taught by Dr. Cynthia Gibas and Dr. Jessica Schlueter of UNC Charlotte, this workshop is intended to give an overview of lab techniques relevant to sampling and analyzing microbiomes of the built environment.
Registration closes: September 2nd
September 16 | Illumina "Lab-in-a-Box" Virtual Session
Virtual (Zoom) | 1 – 4 pm.
Taught by representatives of PreMiEr Industry Member, Illumina, this workshop introduces participants to sequencing pipelines using Illumina technology.
This is a companion workshop to the Illumina “hands-on” experience at either Duke University (September 30th) or North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (October 4th).
Registrants should sign up for this virtual workshop and an associated hands-on workshop at either Duke or N.C. A&T. Space may be limited.
September 30 | Illumina "Lab-in-a-Box" Hands-on Session (@ Duke)
In-person | Duke University | 1 – 4 pm.
Sponsored by PreMiEr Industry Member Illumina, this “lab-in-a-box” experience at Duke University is a 3-hour, in-person, hands-on workshop that gives participants experience in library preparation for next-generation sequencing and an introduction to sequencing pipelines but one of the world’s leading companies in the field.
Registrants who sign up for this hands-on workshop must also attend the September 16th virtual workshop. Space may be limited.
October 4 | Illumina "Lab-in-a-Box" Hands-on Session (@ N.C. A&T)
In-person | N.C. A&T University | 10-2 pm (tentative)
Sponsored by PreMiEr Industry Member Illumina, this “lab-in-a-box” experience at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is a 3-hour, in-person, hands-on workshop that gives participants experience in library preparation for next-generation sequencing and an introduction to sequencing pipelines but one of the world’s leading companies in the field.
Registrants who sign up for this hands-on workshop must also attend the September 16th virtual workshop. Space may be limited.
RESCHEDULED TO SPRING 2025 | Overview of Microbiome Informatics
Virtual (Zoom) | 2:30 – 5 pm.
Taught by Dr. Anthony Fodor of UNC Charlotte, this workshop is intended to give an overview of topics related to analyzing bioinformatic data sets related to microbiomes of the built environment.
Registration closes: September 30th
Historical Offerings
Spring 2024 – Statistics Workshops
The following series of six workshops are part of the Quantitative Methods in HIV/AIDS workshop series that is offered to PreMiEr members in partnership with the Duke Center for AIDS research (funded through a NIH R25 Research Education Program).
Participants in this series must register for all six workshops through this link by Monday, January 15, 2024. Note that PreMiEr is not responsible for confirming this registration or other details of this series. The workshops will be held in 214 Hock Plaza at Duke University, and are open to non-Duke participants. Prior knowledge of R is required.
Statistics Workshops (Jan 22 - Feb 26)
For more information, visit this page.
| Day 1 | Breakdown of an Experiment | Monday, Jan 22 | 1 – 4 PM | 214 Hock Plaza |
| Day 2 | Probability, Distributions, and Confidence Intervals | Monday, Jan 29 | 1 – 4 PM | 214 Hock Plaza |
| Day 3 | Hypothesis Testing and Power/Sample Size | Monday, Feb 5 | 1 – 4 PM | 214 Hock Plaza |
| Day 4 | Linear regression, categorical predictors, interaction effect | Monday, Feb 12 | 1 – 4 PM | 214 Hock Plaza |
| Day 5 | Logistic regression and classification models | Monday, Feb 19 | 1 – 4 PM | 214 Hock Plaza |
| Day 6 | High-dimensional predictive models, cross-validation | Monday, Feb 26 | 1 – 4 PM | 214 Hock Plaza |
Spring 2024 PreMiEr Workshops
The following workshops are available to PreMiEr faculty and scholars, and may be registered for individually. Please use this link to register for these workshops.
Unless otherwise noted, workshops will be held from 1 – 4 pm on the dates indicated. Registration closes at 11:59 pm on the date indicated.
Introduction to High-Throughput Sequencing (March 4th)
Taught hybrid by Dr. Joshua Granek of Duke University. Registration for this workshop closes February 26th, 2024. Registered participants will receive an email with information about the course.
Amplicon Bioinformatic and Statistical Analysis (March 18th)
Taught hybrid by Dr. Joshua Granek of Duke University. Registration for this workshop closes March 11th, 2024. Registered participants will receive an email with information about the course.
Phylogeny (March 25th)
Taught hybrid by Dr. Alex Dornburg of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Registration for this workshop closes March 18th, 2024. Registered participants will receive an email with information about the course.
Sequence classification methods for shotgun metagenomics (April 1st)
Taught hybrid by faculty of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Registration for this workshop closes March 25th, 2024. Registered participants will receive an email with information about the course.
Beyond shotgun: Hi-C metagenomics workflow (April 8th)
Taught hybrid by faculty from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Registration for this workshop closes April 1st, 2024. Registered participants will receive an email with information about the course.
(Note: This workshop was previously scheduled for April 15th but has been moved. You do not need to re-register if you have signed up already.)
Statistics for shotgun metagenomics (April 15th)
Taught hybrid by faculty members of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Registration for this workshop closes April 8th, 2024. Registered participants will receive an email with information about the course.
(Note: This workshop was previously scheduled for April 8th but has been moved. You do not need to re-register if you have signed up already.)