FOCISed Courses & Big Data

Basic Immunology in Medicine Course – new date!

This popular one-day course provides a sophisticated review of select basic immunology topics, with an emphasis on recent advances and issues that are relevant to the pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated diseases.

This course is designed for practicing clinicians, trainees, and individuals in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies who are involved in the development of therapies for immunological diseases.

*Please note that this course now will take place on Tuesday, June 18, 2024*

Systems Immunology Course

Attend this course to obtain a conceptual framework of the main modeling, analysis and visualization technologies along with methodological principles for their application to translational research projects. The course will also provide a better basic understanding of modern statistical and mathematical concepts necessary for their analysis and interpretation.

The course is aimed at scientists involved or interested in the use of multi-dimensional data generated by modern genomics and proteomics technologies such as mass/flow cytometry, next-generation sequencing, and microarrays.

Big Data in Immunology Workshop

Attend the workshop to hear from scientists who have published on repurposed data. Plus, attend for a hands-on introduction to the ImmPort database and become familiar with mining the ImmPort data. Experts from the Immunology Database and Analysis Portal (ImmPort) will teach the workshop.

The open-access ImmPort database provides publicly available clinical trial and immunology research datasets and bioinformatics tools for analyses. ImmPort is an NIAID-funded data repository created to share NIAID-funded data with the scientific research community. ImmPort currently shares over 400 studies with new data released quarterly.