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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">ELIXIR-IIB, in collaboration with the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) and the National Research Council, is pleased to announce the upcoming practical course on <b>“Single Cell RNA Sequencing and Data Analysis”.</b></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Course date: 7-9 May 2019</span><span lang="EN-US" style=""></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">A maximum of <b>25</b> candidates will be accepted in the course. Priority will be given to candidates from ELIXIR-IIB member institutions and ELIXIR nodes. Participants will be selected based on a solid background in RNA sequencing theory and practice. Applicants with a dataset ready to be analyzed in their own research project will be given priority.</span><span lang="EN-US" style=""></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">REGISTRATION FEE: </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Academic 350€ - Non-academic 500€</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Registration fee includes course material, coffee breaks, lunch and dinner buffets, the transfer from the partner hotels.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">COURSE DESCRIPTION</span><span lang="EN-US" style=""></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Single-Cell Transcriptomics is improving the quality of biological investigations by enhancing the dissection of heterogeneity in complex tissues and cell cultures. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">This 3-day course aims to provide an overview of a complete Single-Cell RNA sequencing workflow: </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">- A theoretical overview of all existing methods to perform Single-Cell RNA sequencing libraries with a focus on individual features and weaknesses. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">- A practical hands-on laboratory training to produce 10X Genomics 3’ Single-Cell RNA sequencing libraries. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">- A practical bioinformatics training that will provide guidelines and tools to process and analyze Single-Cell RNA sequencing libraries from raw sequences to visualization. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Full details at: </span></b><b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://elixir-iib-training.github.io/website/2019/05/07/SingleCell-Pozzuoli.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">ELIXIR-IIB Single Cell Course</span></a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style=""></span></font></p>
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