"Telling Stories Through Data" Workshop
August 4-10, 2024
UGA Marine Institute on Sapelo Island

Workshop Website: https://bit.ly/TSTD2024

Apply to participate (form closes on Friday June 14, 2024):
https://forms.gle/Jza1rAVy6Aubu7wc8

The TSTD workshop series is designed to foster practical skills in both
bioinformatics and science communication, training participants in how
to "tell stories through data." Each weeklong workshop will be centered
around two overarching questions: How do you find the story? and What
do you do with the story? Morning sessions (led by Holly Bik, Associate
Professor at the University of Georgia) will focus on how these questions
are applied to bioinformatics data analyses, guiding participants in how
to visualize data, conduct appropriate statistical analyses, and build
narratives for scientific manuscripts. Afternoon sessions (led by Virginia
Schutte, freelance science communicator) will provide complementary
training on storytelling for public audiences, teaching participants how
to identify compelling public narratives and prepare science outreach
products using a variety of digital media tools. This workshop is
targeted towards graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, and
participants are expected to have some basic familiarity with command
line tools and scientific programming (e.g. Unix, R, and/or Python). The
2024 TSTD workshop will be focused on analysis of eDNA Metabarcoding data
(e.g. 16S/18S rRNA environmental amplicons). Please refer to workshop
website for a full description and preliminary schedule.

This workshop is targeted towards graduate students and
postdoctoral researchers, although we will consider applications
from other early-career scientists who would especially benefit
from participating. All participants are expected to have some
basic familiarity with command line tools and scientific programming
(e.g. Unix, R, and/or Python) in order to fully benefit from the workshop
trainings. This is NOT an introductory programming course; we will be
focusing on -Omics workflows and downstream data visualizations of target
datasets. The 2024 TSTD workshop will be focused on eDNA Metabarcoding
data (e.g. 16S/18S rRNA environmental amplicons).

Holly Bik
Associate Professor
Department of Marine Sciences
and Institute of Bioinformatics
University of Georgia
102B Marine Sciences Bldg
325 Sanford Drive
Athens, GA 30602

Email: hbik@uga.edu
Office: (+1) 706-542-2844
Lab: (+1) 706-542-2037

Lab: https://www.biklab.org/
Personal: https://www.hollybik.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hollybik

hbik@uga.edu

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