3. Introductions

Hi everyone and thank you for joining us for the mRNA sequencing workshop at SETAC-NA 2018 in Sacramento. We are excited for this workshop, but we also have a lot to cover. Bear with us and we will try to have you leave with a set of skills that can be applied to your data.

3.1. Here are your instructors for the day:

Lisa

• Lisa Johnson - PhD Candidate at UC Davis
  • Lisa is highly experienced in pipeline automation and has dealt with large transcriptomic datasets including:
    • ~700 marine invertebrate transcriptome re-assembly and optimization
    • transcriptomic assessment of osmotic challenge responses of 16 Fundulids adapted to various osmotic environments).

Jane

• Jane Park - PhD Candidate at UC Davis
  • Jane spends her time between the lab, where she samples embryonic Fundulus heteroclitus exposed to oil and creating custom computational pipelines to analize differential expression to understand the impacts of oil on trans-generational responses.

Elias

• Elias Oziolor - Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis
  • Elias spent his dissertation time exploring the mechanism of adaptation which allows F. grandis to adapt to heavy contamination
  • Currently he is working on developing computational tools for analyzing time-series population genomic data to understand the effects of population collapse in Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii), as well as assisting with the transcriptomic assessment of responses of herring to early developmental co-exposure of oil and viral challenge.