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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3078854e-9466-4246-4916-e3d808a6cc52"></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3078854e-9466-4246-4916-e3d808a6cc52"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3078854e-9466-4246-4916-e3d808a6cc52" style="font-size:11pt"></span><br><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3078854e-9466-4246-4916-e3d808a6cc52" style="font-size:11pt"></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;display:inline!important"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3078854e-9466-4246-4916-e3d808a6cc52"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ELIXIR-NL Course: </span></b></p><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Libre Baskerville";font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Bioinformatics for Translational Medicine using Galaxy: see it, do it, teach it!</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please circulate this email to those who might be interested.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Date</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: 17-19 October, 2018 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Location:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> VU Amsterdam (</span><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/CphwJEFDegt" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">O|2 Lab Building</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Gustav Mahlerlaan 665, 1082 MK, 1082 MK Amsterdam)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizers: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This course is an ELIXIR-EXCELERATE course and is organised by ELIXIR-NL by Chao (Cico) Zhang (VU), Sanne Abeln (VU), Anton Feenstra (VU), Saskia Hiltemann (ErasmusMC), Mateusz Kuzak (DTL) and Celia van Gelder (DTL).</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Course page (incl. Application Form)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><a href="https://www.biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/bioinformatics-for-translational-medicine-using-galaxy/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/bioinformatics-for-translational-medicine-using-galaxy/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">TARGET AUDIENCE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1) Biomedical & translational medicine researchers/students who are keen on bioinformatics and 2) educators in the “bio” domain who would like to start using Galaxy in their courses as an introduction to Bioinformatics.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">COURSE DESCRIPTION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Analysing molecular data in translational medicine involves a multitude of computational steps. Here, we introduce the basics of how to design and run these steps within Galaxy, a free and easy-to-use web platform that enables users to connect bioinformatics tools into a workflow without any prior programming expertise. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This course consists of two parts. Part 1 will let you get familiar with Galaxy; it will introduce some bioinformatics workflows used for RNAseq, variant detection and metagenomics; and how to easily connect different computational steps in Galaxy. Part 2 will focus on how to teach bioinformatics with Galaxy and to design bioinformatics courses using Galaxy. Participants can register for both parts separately.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This course is also interspersed with a few keynotes, from recognised researchers in the fields of Biomedicine, Bioinformatics education and Galaxy workflows. The confirmed speakers include Jaap Heringa, who is the scientific director of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre; and Björn Grüning, who is the leader of Galaxy training network, also actively involved in Bioconda. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The attendees of Part I are assumed to have the basic knowledge of biomedicine (molecular biology and genomics) and be interested in analysing patient derived sequencing data. The attendees of Part II are assumed to have some teaching experience in the relevant field (e.g., bioinformatics, computational biology, systems biology, quantitative biology, etc.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">COURSE SCHEDULE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The course consists of six modules, as the table below shows, covering a list of topics as follows:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Introduction to Galaxy. Run bioinformatics tools and workflows in Galaxy without the need for any programming expertise.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reference-based RNA-Seq data analysis</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Module detection in differential gene expression in meta transcriptomics samples.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Microbiota Analysis: 16S rRNA sequencing analysis in Galaxy</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How to teach bioinformatics workflows.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Galaxy setup for teaching and training material development.</span></p></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br><br></b></p><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="130"><col width="157"><col width="157"><col width="157"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:28pt"><td style="vertical-align:bottom;padding:2pt"><br></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Day 1 - Wed Oct 17</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Day 2 - Thur Oct 18</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Day 3 - Frid Oct 19</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:52pt"><td rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Morning</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="http://galaxyproject.github.io/training-material/topics/introduction/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Galaxy 101 + Variant detection</span></a></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26342232" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Network analysis with microbiota metatranscriptome</span></a></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Teaching bioinformatics workflows</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:27pt"><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="https://shiltemann.github.io/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Saskia Hiltemann</span></a></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="https://hi-it.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chao Zhang</span></a></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="http://www.few.vu.nl/~feenstra/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Anton Feenstra</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height:52pt"><td rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Keynote Speech*</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I: About bioinformatics workflows</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">II: About Galaxy and ELIXIR</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">III: About bioinformatics teaching</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:22pt"><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">TBD</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="https://galaxyproject.org/people/bjoern-gruening/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Björn Grüning</span></a></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="https://www.cs.vu.nl/~heringa/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jaap Heringa</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height:52pt"><td rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Afternoon</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="http://galaxyproject.github.io/training-material/topics/transcriptomics/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BWA + RNAseq</span></a></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="http://galaxyproject.github.io/training-material/topics/metagenomics/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">16S rRNA sequencing with mothur</span></a></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="http://galaxyproject.github.io/training-material/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Galaxy training material development</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height:21pt"><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="https://shiltemann.github.io/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Saskia Hiltemann</span></a></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="https://shiltemann.github.io/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Saskia Hiltemann</span></a></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><a href="https://shiltemann.github.io/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Saskia Hiltemann</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height:28pt"><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Evening</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><br></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Social dinner</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);padding:2pt"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About the instructors</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Each session is led by one instructor listed in the table above but strongly supported by multiple co-instructors, including, but not limited to, Saskia Hiltemann (ErasmusMC), Chao Zhang (VU), Leon Mei (LUMC), Ruben Vorderman (LUMC) and Sanne Abeln (VU).</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Note</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: The course is held in a computer classroom, so you don’t need to bring your own laptop.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">COURSE FEE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Course participation is free of charge. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Libre Baskerville";font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">A workshop dinner will be organized on Thursday (at participants’ own expenses)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Should you have any question about this course, please contact Celia van Gelder (<a href="mailto:celia.van.gelder@dtls.nl">celia.van.gelder@dtls.nl</a>)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Libre Baskerville";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"></b><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><a name="m_1505761278812878898__MailAutoSig"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder<u></u><u></u></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Programme Manager DTL Learning<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Training Coordinator ELIXIR-NL<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">ELIXIR Training Platform Leader<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">tel. +31613375327<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">e-mail: </span></span><a href="mailto:celia.van.gelder@dtls.nl" target="_blank"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">celia.van.gelder@dtls.nl</span></span><span></span></a><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">websites: </span></span><a href="http://www.dtls.nl/" target="_blank"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">www.dtls.nl</span></span><span></span></a><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">, </span></span><a href="http://www.biosb.nl/" target="_blank"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">www.biosb.nl</span></span><span></span></a><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">skype: celia.van.gelder<br><u></u><br><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Office: DTL | Jaarbeurs Innovation Mile (JIM) | 6th floor Beatrixgebouw | Jaarbeursplein 6 | 3521 AL Utrecht<br>Postal address: Postbus 8500 | 3503 RM Utrecht<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="color:#999999">While I may be sending this email outside my normal office hours, I have no expectation to receive a reply outside yours.</span></span><span><span><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>