Lightning Talks on R/Bioconductor for Genomics (with prizes for best talks)

The talks will follow a strict 5-minute format, and at the end of all the talks, we'll have a live vote for the best talk of the evening. There will be prizes for victors!

• 5:30 - Food and networking

• 6:00 - Start of Lightning Talks.

Aedin Culhane: Bioc2018, the annual Bioconductor Meeting
A 5-minute review of the highlights of Bioc2018, which was held in
Toronto in July, including where to find materials/code/slides

• 6:20 - Intermission / networking

• 6:40 - More lightning Talks.

• 7:00 Live voting and awards ceremony

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Submit your title and abstract (max 140 characters) to have your lightning talk considered. Deadline is October 2nd so send them in now

to bostonbioc@gmail.com

We will follow the excellent format (and rules) of the Boston-Computational-Biology-and-Bioinformatics-Meetup

Ground rules for abstracts:

1. All of our members are welcome to submit abstracts. Academia, industry, government, non-profit, all are welcome to present. All levels of experience including those new to R/Bioconductor, trainees, students, graduate, and postdocs are welcome to present.

2. We're looking for general interest presentations, not product pitches. If your work revolves around a particular platform and you used it for an interesting application that revealed novel scientific endpoints, that's okay. But in that case let's focus on the science, not the platform.

3. Talks are strictly 5 minutes each, enforced by group consensus and a liberal distribution of humorous noise-making devices throughout the audience. (The organizers reserve the right to alter the 5-minute criteria up or down by a few minutes depending on how many abstracts we receive).

4. Abstract (max140 Characters) deadline is October 2nd..... it's only 140 characters, so just send it now to bostonbioc@gmail.com