Materials for the Fall 2025 PSU One Health Microbiome Center KickStart Workshop.
Dates: August 5 - 8, 2025 (Optional intro to Unix/R on August 5th, Full workshop August 6 - 8th)
Times: August 5th: 1pm - 4pm; August 6 - 7th: 9am - 4pm; August 8th: 10am - 4pm
Location: Life Sciences 010 (in person only)
- Molly Bletz (mcb6342@psu.edu)
- Francisco Dini-Andreote (adreote@psu.edu)
- Emily Davenport (co-chair) (exd44@psu.edu)
- Grace Deitzler (co-chair) (dfd5230@psu.edu)
- Liana Burghardt (liana.burghardt@psu.edu)
- Estelle Couradeau (efc5279@psu.edu)
- Darrell Cockburn (dwc30@psu.edu)
- Erika Ganda (ganda@psu.edu)
- David Koslicki (dmk333@psu.edu)
- Theo Newbold (castrocln68@psu.edu)
- Melanie Medina Lopez (mkm6528@psu.edu)
- Jessi Gaydos (jee5055@psu.edu)
- Hanh Tran (hanh.tran@psu.edu)
- Kayla Clouse (kaylamclouse@psu.edu)
A PSU email and access to Penn State’s Roar Collab system is required prior to the workshop. You can do this by going to https://accounts.aci.ics.psu.edu, and entering your information. For the purposes of this workshop, please list Emily Davenport (exd44@psu) as your account sponsor and put "2025 Microbiome Center Summer Workshop" into the "Research Description" field of the account request form.
A laptop is also required for the workshop. You can either bring your own or email Grace Deitzler (gfd5230@psu.edu) before July 25th to rent one for free.
- Day 0 (1pm - 4pm) [OPTIONAL]: Unix Basics and Intro to R Programming - Emily Davenport
- Day 1 (9am - 4pm): Intro + Basics of Microbiome Analysis - From Planning to Sequencing - Organizing Committee
- Day 2 (9am - 10pm): Studying Symbiosis through Sequencing - Liana Burghardt
- Day 2 (10am - 4pm): Amplicon Data Analysis in R - Erika Ganda
- Day 3 (10am - 4pm): Shotgun data analysis (assembly, binning, and profiling) - David Koslicki