The Seattle Area Single Cell user group, also known as SASC, will hold its third meeting September 27 from 12 noon to 2 pm, in the Building C Conference Room, at the UW Medicine offices in South Lake Union.
Wei Yang, a graduate student in the lab of BBI Scientific Director Jay Shendure, Ph.D., will be the featured speaker. Yang will lead a discussion and tutorial on single-cell RNA-seq clustering and cell type annotation.
This will be the third quarterly SASC meeting since the group convened last February.
“Our two first sessions showed a lot of enthusiasm among the participants, who included PIs, post-docs, and graduate students representing all three of BBI’s institutions – UW Medicine, Fred Hutch, and Seattle Children’s,” said Mary O’Neill, Ph.D., BBI’s Director of Single Cell Genomics and convener of the user group. “We also have had representatives from the Allen Institute and local science and biotech-related companies.”
She said she expects that on the 27th to have another “hands on” workshop working with real data in the R programming language.
O’Neill noted the common theme of SASC is “community,” that is, “the need to foster a sense of belonging and unity among Puget Sound area scientists and researchers working in single cell genomics to learn from one another.”
Participants are asked to pre-register for the meeting, so there is a headcount for refreshments: RSVP here
