Meren, Tom and I attended a bioinformatics workshop at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in the first two weeks of August. Actually, Meren is teaching a couple of classes on Oligotyping and Anvi'o, and Tom is TA, while I am there as a student. The workshop is over two weeks, with the first week covering mostly 16S rRNA analysis techniques, and the second week concentrating on metagenomics. Although I am already quite familiar with the 16S rRNA curriculum, it is handy to revisit those knowledge and also keep up to date on what is new. I was more looking forward to advancing my knowledge in metagenomic analysis. In addition, it was also an excellent opportunity for me to network and meet some potential research collaborators.
The workshop was very intense, with classes starting at 9am and did not end until 10pm daily (with lunch, dinner and coffee breaks in between to keep all of us awake). There was a Monday off, and most of the others went out to Martha's vineyard for their day off, while I was in the laboratory catching up on some outstanding stuffs with Meren and Tom.
Although it had been a really busy two weeks, I still managed to find time to keep up with my daily morning runs before breakfast. Cape Cod is definitely very pretty in the summer, and thus no doubt that the whole place was swarmed with tourists (kinda reminded me of time on Waiheke). We had a welcome dinner and reception at the end of the first week, and we had lobsters! It was hard and messy work to get to the lobsters meat, but this is my first time eating Cape Cod lobsters, and it was very delicious.
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