Friday Aug 17

Friday Aug 17

Preparation and Discussion Time: Metagenomics (9:00-10:00)

Group Photograph (10:00-10:30)

  • Say "Bacterially-transformed milk product"

Student group presentations (10:30-11:30)

  1. Send your presentation or link to google doc to Dana here: dana.s.brunson@gmail.com
  2. 6 min/group (~3 slides)
  3. 15 min at end for group discussion

Join.Me Session https://join.me/403-464-183

iPlant Atmosphere Wrap-up (11:30-12:00)

  1. Closing down your Atmosphere VM
  2. How to create and save a custom VM
  3. Sharing a desktop environment with Atmosphere

Lunch (12:00-12:45)

Introduction: Differential expression analysis (12:45-1:15)

Background: Comparative analysis of wild-type and hy5 mutant Arabidpsis. 

HY5: Basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor. Nuclear localization. Involved in light-regulated transcriptional activation of G-box-containing promoters. Negatively regulated by Cop1. Although cytokinins do not appear to affect the gene's promoter activity, they appear to stabilize the protein. HY5 plays a role in anthocyanin accumulation in far-red light and blue light, but not in red light or in the dark. Mutant studies showed that the gene product is involved in the positive regulation of the PHYA-mediated inhibition of hypocotyl elongation. Binds to G- and Z-boxes, and other ACEs, but not to E-box. Loss of function mutation shows ABA resistant seedling phenotypes suggesting involvement for HY5 in mediating ABA responses. Binds to the promoter of ABI5 and regulates its expression.

Reading Room

Differential expression analysis with iPlant (1:15-3:00)

Testing Opportunity iPlant is testing its new Discovery Environment 1.4 "Jacinthe" starting today. If you are comfortable with a slightly different interface, and are willing to put up with potential flakiness, I'm looking for ~10 volunteers to use the testing version of the DE for today's session.

  • /wiki/spaces/eot/pages/241585220 (Wiki. Semi-guided)
    • Feel free to stop when you get to the section RNA-Seq in Atmosphere.

      If you decide to do this section, please launch an NGS Viewers VM to work from, rather than using your Entangled Genomes VM, making sure to terminate your Entangled Genomes VM if it is running.

Study Questions

  1. Download your list of differentially expressed genes
  2. Import it into a spreadsheet program (Google Docs, for instance).
  3. Cut out the list of gene IDs. Submit it to the following web service
    1. http://arabidopsis.org/tools/bulk/genes/index.jsp
      1. Identify a couple of candidate genes that might lead to the hy5-215 phenotype pictured here

Workshop Wrap-up (3:00- )