#EDAMAME2016

The ShadeLab was in full-force EDAMAME mode this month and last as we prepared materials for the 3rd year of Explorations in Data Analysis for Metagenomic Advances in Microbial Ecology workshop, held at Kellogg Biological Station July 10-20 2016. Our workshop website is here, and all of our tutorials are freely available on GitHub.

ShadeLab graduate students John Chodkowski, Siobhan Cusack, Taylor Dunivin, and Jackson Sorensen served as teaching assistants for the workshop, and Ashley was lead instructor. This summer, the ShadeLab team was joined by the awesome efforts of Adina Howe's new group at Iowa State University, and by Tracy Teal, the lead of Data Carpentry. (Yes, THREE women leading a workshop in statistics and bioinformatics.) They welcomed guest instructors Rich Lenski, Jim Tiedje, Pat Schloss, Sarah Evans, Jim Cole, and Stuart Jones for evening lectures, and enjoyed some of the local Michigan specialties along the way (Bell's and Arcadia).

We welcomed learners from around the globe to our EDAMAME2016, including the US, UK, Europe, Central America, and Puerto Rico!

EDAMAME was supported by an NIH R25 award to Shade (NIH R25GM115335), by an award by the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action to Shade and Teal, with additional support from MO BIO (t-shirts!), the Michigan State Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research, Kellogg Biological Station, and the Michigan State Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics.

Thank you to our enthusiastic participants, teaching assistants, instructors, volunteers, guest lectures, sponsors, and to all of you wonderful folks who have supported this important training!