In this data club session, we’ll explore the reasons why quantitative analysis of bioimages can enable further scientific discovery. We’ll kick off with a few slides and then we’ll open the floor for a discussion where everyone can share their experiences, concerns, and insights. We’ll discuss bias when qualitatively assessing bioimages, and its effect on […]
Title: Elucidating the role of microbiome in health and disease using multi-omics and systems biology approaches Dr Clasen completed his undergraduate and master’s studies in bioinformatics and biotechnology at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He then moved to London to pursue a PhD in bioinformatics and systems biology at the Francis Crick Institute […]
** YOU MUST COMPLETE THE ONLINE COURSE (PART 1) BEFORE ATTENDING THIS SESSION ** The in-person follow-up session for the Basic R with Data Carpentry course offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of R in a practical, hands-on environment. After completing the online course, you can attend this session to work through advanced […]
Title: Integrating Experimental Design and Computational Strategy in Single-Cell Studies Sarah is a final year PhD Student of Dr. Lynn Quek in the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Before starting her PhD she worked for Dr. Quek as a research assistant for three years. Prior to moving to the UK she completed her undergraduate […]
Title: Spatial Multimodal Integration in Breast Cancer Dr Anthony Baptista is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anita’s group at King’s College London and the Alan Turing Institute. His research integrates network science, mathematical modelling, and artificial intelligence to advance cancer biology. During his PhD, he developed multilayer network exploration methods based on random walk algorithms […]
** YOU MUST COMPLETE THE ONLINE COURSE (PART 1) BEFORE ATTENDING THIS SESSION ** The in-person follow-up session for the Statistics with R course offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of R in a practical, hands-on environment. After completing the online course, you can attend this session to work through advanced exercises, clarify […]
The Data Club is an informal forum for biologists and coders to discuss various aspects of cell-to-cell communication using CellChat, accompanied by brief examples for discussion. Our goal is to explore different topics related to cellChat analysis and visualization, with a particular focus on methodology and interpretation challenges. There may be opportunities for members to […]
** YOU MUST COMPLETE THE ONLINE COURSE (PART 1) BEFORE ATTENDING THIS SESSION ** The in-person follow-up session for the UNIX and IT Infrastructure for Data Analysis course offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of UNIX and IT data analysis in a practical, hands-on environment. After completing the online course, you can attend […]
Title: Single Cell Profiling of Airway Samples in Severe Asthma Dr Onofrio Zanin obtained a PhD in molecular biology at the University of Birmingham, where he investigated the mechanisms of RNA transcription and RNA metabolism associated with defects in RNA capping. He subsequently moved to King’s College London, where he is currently studying the cellular […]
** YOU MUST COMPLETE THE ONLINE COURSE (PART 1) BEFORE ATTENDING THIS SESSION ** The in-person follow-up session for the Using Spreadsheets to Record Data and Metadata course offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of data and metadata analysis in a practical, hands-on environment. After completing the online course, you can attend this session […]
Title: AMIRA: Animal-free Mechanistic Inference for Species-Specific Chemical Risk Assessment Richa Malik is a PhD researcher in computational toxicology at King’s College London, developing machine-learning approaches to predict species-specific sensitivity to chemicals and pharmaceuticals, supporting the development of next generation, animal-free, chemical safety assessment strategies. Using large-scale multi-modal datasets, her work focuses on identifying when […]
£25 KCL Staff/Students or £50 external, register on eStore here Instructor: Dr. Simon Murray from Genomics England. This practical session will be an introduction to Nextflow, a powerful computational pipeline constructor, via a demonstration of an introductory Nextflow pipeline and an interactive, guided experience of running through the nf-core RNAseq pipeline. Students will need a […]
Instructors: Drs. Ira Iosub and Charlotte Capitanchik £25 KCL Staff/Students or £50 external, register on eStore here This workshop provides an introduction to bioinformatics workflow managers, with a focus on Nextflow. Participants will gain an understanding of workflow management concepts and learn how to use Nextflow to develop scalable, reproducible, and portable bioinformatics pipelines. The session […]
** YOU MUST COMPLETE THE ONLINE COURSE (PART 1) BEFORE ATTENDING THIS SESSION ** The in-person follow-up session for the NGS: Bulk RNA_Seq course offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of RNA-seq data analysis and visualization in a practical, hands-on environment. After completing the online course, you can attend this session to work […]
Title: Advanced Bioinformatics Processing of Proteomics Data for Cardiovascular Research Speaker: Thakorn Pruktanakul is a PhD student at the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences at King’s College London, working in bioinformatics for cardiovascular proteomics. His research focuses on computational methods to optimise mass spectrometry–based proteomics data preprocessing and network analysis to better […]
Description: Following the recent announcement that GraphPad Prism will now require subscriptions, the HAB will be offering a new series of hands-on workshops for non-coders. These workshops are designed to help researchers at all career levels (PIs included!) to carry out the analyses they would usually perform in GraphPad Prism in R, a powerful open-source […]
The Data Club is an informal forum for biologists and coders to discuss various aspects of their quantitative analyses. This month, let’s chat about spatial transcriptomics! Title: An introduction into Spatial transcriptomic Analysis: the pitfalls and opportunities Presenter: Michael Pitcher is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Studies, where he […]
Title: Single-Cell Genomics Approaches for Dissecting Cell Type Identity in the Pituitary Gland Speaker: Bence did his undergrad at UCL in Biological Sciences with a year abroad at Caltech, where he got interested in quantitative approaches applied to single-cell biology. In his Master’s thesis at UCL, Bence discovered and characterised a naturally occurring mutation in fission […]
The in-person follow-up session for the NGS: Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Analysis course offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of single-cell data analysis in a practical, hands-on environment. After completing the online course, you can attend this session to work through advanced exercises, clarify any questions, and receive personalized guidance from the instructor. Price: £25 […]
The Data Club is an informal forum for biologists and coders to discuss various aspects of their quantitative analyses. This month, let’s chat about microbiome studies! Title: Everything Is Relative: Methodological Considerations in Microbiome Studies Presenter: Raphaella Jackson is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine within the Department of Women […]
** YOU MUST COMPLETE THE ONLINE COURSE (PART 1) BEFORE ATTENDING THIS SESSION ** The in-person follow-up workshop for the NGS: ATAC-seq course offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of ATAC-seq data analysis and visualization in a practical, hands-on environment. The online course will cover Quality Control (QC) of BAM files, differential accessibility […]
Title: Deconstructing glia-to-neuron conversion in vivo Speaker: Dr. Alexis Cooper, recently joined the Pellegrini Lab at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London, where she will apply single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to study human brain development, with a specific focus on the choroid plexus. Previously, she worked in the Berninger Lab on engineering neurogenesis […]
Focused, small-group discussions on the shared bottlenecks that slow spatial transcriptomics research. Each session is led by a network member and produces actionable notes feeding into our living, community-owned bottlenecks log. Sessions rotate across partner institutions in hybrid format. On this Data Club: Curse of dimensionality and its impacts on clustering and neighbourhood graph construction […]
Learn the Unix skills that underpin modern bioinformatics. In this module, you'll discover how command-line tools transform raw sequencing data into meaningful biological insights and gain an understanding of the IT infrastructure that supports reproducible bioinformatics workflows. These core skills provide the foundation for many of the analyses covered in subsequent workshops. This is an in-person workshop. Completion of the […]