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GCAT Best Practices Workshop #1
July 27 - July 31
Atlanta, GA @ Morehouse College


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Instructors:

Todd Eckdahl, Anne Rosenwald, Mary Lee Ledbetter, Laurie Heyer,
Laura Hoopes, Malcolm Campbell, Edison Fowlks

Day 1 (July 27) Wednesday

Time
Activity
Lead Instructors
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast Eat at Morehouse Cafeteria
8:00 - 8:30 Last Minute Laptop Preparation Laurie Heyer and Malcolm Campbell
8:30 - 9:00 Greetings and Overview J. K. Haynes and Edison Fowlks
9:00 - 10:15

Introduction to Microarrays, MAGIC Tool web, Raw Data

Launch

Malcolm Campbell

Laurie Heyer

10:15 - 10:30 Short Break Dr. Pleez B. Prompt
10:30 - 11:15 Making a Project Laurie Heyer
11:15 - 11:35 Practice Making Projects Laurie Heyer
11:35 - 12:15 Slide Layout and Gene List Laurie Heyer
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch Break Eat at Morehouse Cafeteria
1:15 - 1:45 Practice Layout and Gene List Laurie Heyer
1:45 - 2:30 Gridding Laurie Heyer
2:30 - 2:45 Short Break Dr. B. Ohn Thyme
2:45 - 3:15 Practice Gridding Laurie Heyer
3:15 - 4:00 Segmentation Laurie Heyer
4:00 - 4:30 Practice Segmentation Laurie Heyer
4:30 - 5:00 Generate Multiple Ratio Expression Files Laurie Heyer
5:00 -6:00

Practice Multiple Ratio Expression Files

Quit MAGIC Tool

Laurie Heyer
Goal for Day 1: Create 6 Columns of Data
6:00 - 7:00 Dinner Eat at Morehouse Cafeteria
7:00 - late Trouble Shooting and Practice Session Available Heyer, Campbell, et al.

Schedule Overview

Day 2 (July 28) Thursday

Time
Activity
Lead Instructors
7:30 - 8:00 Breakfast Eat at Morehouse Cafeteria
8:00 - 8:30 Log Transforming Data Laurie Heyer
8:30 - 8:45 Practice Log Transforming Data Laurie Heyer
8:45 - 9:15

Gene Information

Laurie Heyer

9:15 - 9:30 Practice Gene Information Laurie Heyer
9:30 - 10:30 Explore Data Laurie Heyer
10:30 - 10:45 Short Break Dr. Don T Linger
10:45 - 11:15 Practice Exploring Laurie Heyer
11:15 - 12:00 Clustering Overview (you practice later: online + PDF) Laurie Heyer
12:00 - 12:45 Lunch Break Eat at Morehouse Cafeteria
12:45 - 1:15 Wet Lab Overview Todd Eckdahl, Anne Rosenwald,
Mary Lee Ledbetter, Laura Hoopes
1:15 - 2:00 Set up Reverse Transcription and Cy-Dye Incorporation Todd Eckdahl
2:00 - 3:15 Discussion DeRisi Experiment;
RNA Isolation & Quality Control
Laura Hoopes
3:15 - 3:45 Discussion of Labeling Alternatives Mary Lee Ledbetter
3:45 - 4:00 Short Break  
4:00 - 4:30 RNA Degradation Todd Eckdahl
4:30 - 5:00 Purification of cDNA Todd Eckdahl
5:00 - 5:30 Prehybridization Procedures, &
Measurement of Labeling Efficiency
Todd Eckdahl
5:30 - 6:00

Labeled Sample Preparation and Hybridization

Laura Hoopes

Goal for Day 2: Manipulate and Explore Data

Generate cDNA Probes & Hybe Them on Chips

6:00 - 7:00 Dinner Eat at Morehouse Cafeteria
7:00 - 8:00 NSF Presentations in Lecture Room II in Nabrit/Mapp/McBay Hall Sally O'Connor and Diane Okamuro

Schedule Overview

GCAT Wet Lab Protocols

Day 3 (July 29) Friday

Time
Activity
Lead Instructors
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast Eat at Morehouse Cafeteria
8:00 - 8:45 Discussion of Quantifying
mRNA Levels with RT PCR
Todd Eckdahl, Laura Hoopes
8:45 - 9:45 Discussion of Using Microarrays in Courses Mary Lee Ledbetter
9:45 - 10:00

Short Break

 
10:00 - 11:00 Posthybridization Washing Todd Eckdahl
11:00 - 12:45 Microarray Slide Scanning Todd Eckdahl
12:45 - 1:30 Lunch Break Eat at Morehouse Cafeteria
1:30 - 2:30 Discussion of Results Instructors and Participants
2:30 - 3:30 Discussion of Using Microarrays in Research Anne Rosenwald
3:30 - 6:00 Flexible Catch Up Time GCAT Instructors

Goal for Day 3: Wash & Scan Chips

Discuss and Trouble Shoot Results

6:00 - 7:00 Dinner Eat at Morehouse Cafeteria
7:00 - late Trouble Shooting and
Practice Session Available
Eckdah, Hoopes, Ledbetter, Rosenwald, et al.

GCAT Wet Lab Protocols

Schedule Overview

Day 4 (July 30) Saturday

Time
Activity
Lead Instructors
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast Hope Hall, Second Floor
8:00 - 8:30 Refresh Memory Laurie Heyer
8:30 - 10:15 Generate Ratios from Your Microarray You
10:15 - 10:30

Short Break

Dr. Hur E. Back

10:30 - 12:15 1 Column Exploration Laurie Heyer
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch Break Eat at Morehouse Cafeteria
1:15 - 3:00 Make a Series from Separate 1 Columns Laurie Heyer
3:00 - 3:15 Short Break Dr. Kum Bak Soon
3:15 - 6:00 DeRisi Data Analaysis Laurie Heyer
Goal for Day 4: Know what to do after wet lab!
6:00 - 7:00 Dinner Eat at Morehouse Cafeteria
7:00 - late Trouble Shooting and Practice Session Available GCAT Instructors

Schedule Overview

Day 5 (July 31) Sunday

Time
Activity
Lead Instructors
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast Hope Hall, Second Floor
8:00 - 8:30 Summarize Past 4 Days GCAT Instructors
8:30 - 10:15 Discuss Curriculum Ideas GCAT Instructors
10:15 - 10:30

Short Break

Dr. Juan Las Time

10:30 - 12:15 Your Quesitons and Workshop Assessment GCAT Instructors
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch Break Eat at Morehouse Cafeteria
Goal for Day 5: Know how you can adapt and adopt GCAT resources.

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