NMC has planned a series of courses for 2009. The courses will be held in Bergen, Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsø.

The courses in Oslo and Bergen will have the same topics, which means that it is possible to e.g. do the introduction course in Oslo and the Analysis course in Bergen and vice versa. Knowledge of the topics covered in the introduction course is expected for the analysis course, see course plans further down on this page.

In addition we have a Lab and Analysis course in Trondheim and an analysis course in Tromsø.

All are open to anyone interested in learning more about microarrays and the analysis of microarray data.

 

NMC Courses 2009 

Here is the schedule for the courses given by NMC 2009. Click on the different courses to find out more.

Registration deadline is 2 weeks before start of course.

Time	Duration	Course	Place	Registration  Deadline
23rd - 27th March	5 days	Lab and Analysis	Trondheim	Closed
23rd - 25th March	3 days	Analysis using J-Expres	Bergen	Closed
18. - 19. May	2 days	Introduction to Microarrays	Oslo	Closed
June	5 days	Introduction to Microarray Technology and Data Analysis	Tromsø	Closed
17th -18th September	2 days	Introduction to Microarrays	Bergen	Closed
September	3 days	R/BioC Analysis Course	Trondheim	To be announced
8th - 10th December	3 days	J-Express Analysis Course	Oslo	Closed

 

Introduction to Microarrays, Bergen, 17. -18. September 2009

The introductory course is a two day course and is aimed at scientists who are new to microarrays or those who want to learn about experimental design. Main topics to be covered are:

• Microarray pipeline
• Microarray technologies and applications
  • Microarray platforms
  • Other types of arrays (SNP arrays, ChIP chip etc.)
• Experimental design
• Preprocessing of microarray data
  • Quality control, filtering, normalisation
• Finding differentially expressed genes using t-test
• Introduction to explorative methods, such as clustering and PCA 
• Get familiar with looking at gene graphs 

Registration is now closed

Presentations for the course is located here

For updated course program click here

 

Analysing microarrays using J-Express - Oslo - 8. -10. of December

 This is a 3 day course where J-Express will be used as an analysis tool. This course builds on the Introduction to microarrays course, so knowledge about the microarray technology is expected. We intend to focus on practical exercises in this course where pre-processed and normalized microarray data will be used as analysis material. The main topics to be covered are:

Quick presentation of the microarray pipeline

Experimental design 

Differential expression

SAM/t-test/Rank Product

Gene Set Analysis

Gene Ontology

Time series

Explorative methods (PCA, clustering etc.)

Quick introduction of R/Bioconductor

 

The course will be limit to 20 participants and the course fee is 900 NOK.

Contact person: thea@microarray.no

Presentations for the course is located here

The exercises and presentations will be located here

For updated course program click here

The technology presentations will be located here