The planned schedule for the December 2025 Data Lab Virtual Training Workshop “Advanced Single-Cell RNA-Seq” appears below.

Note: All times are EDT (UTC−04:00).

Time Topic Location
Day 1 2025-12-08  
12:00 PM Welcome, Introductions and Getting Started (PDF) Zoom: Main Session
1:00 PM Introduction/Refresher to Single-cell Analysis with R and Bioconductor  
  Single-cell analysis with R slides (PDF)  
  Single-cell analysis with R instruction notebook  
3:30 PM Questions and introduction to the exercises Zoom: Breakout Rooms
4:00 PM Exercises and consultation sessions Slack channel
  Resources for consultation sessions  
  Exercise: Importing CITE-seq data  
  Exercise: Cell type assignment
This exercise is available in the scRNA-seq module
 
5:00 PM Adjourn for the day  
Day 2 2025-12-09  
12:00 PM Integrating multiple scRNA-seq samples Zoom: Main Session
  Integration slides (PDF)  
  Integration instruction notebook  
3:30 PM Questions and introduction to the exercises Zoom: Breakout Rooms
4:00 PM Exercises and consultation sessions Slack channel
  Resources for consultation sessions  
  Exercise: Integration  
5:00 PM Adjourn for the day  
Day 3 2025-12-10  
12:00 PM Differential expression analysis with scRNA-seq Zoom: Main Session
  Differential expression slides (PDF)  
  Differential expression instruction notebook  
3:30 PM Questions and introduction to the exercises Zoom: Breakout Rooms
4:00 PM Exercises and consultation sessions Slack channel
  Resources for consultation sessions  
  Exercise: Differential Expression  
5:00 PM Adjourn for the day  
Day 4 2025-12-11 Zoom: Main Session
12:00 PM Pathway analysis with scRNA-seq  
  Pathway analysis slides (PDF)  
12:30 PM Pathway analysis: Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA)  
  GSEA instruction notebook  
2:00 PM Pathway analysis: AUCell  
  AUCell instruction notebook  
3:30 PM Questions and introduction to the exercises Zoom: Breakout Rooms
4:00 PM Exercises and consultation sessions Slack channel
  Resources for consultation sessions  
  Exercise: AUCell  
  Exercise: Evaluating cluster quality  
5:00 PM Adjourn for the day  
Day 5 2025-12-12  
12:00 PM Consultation sessions Slack channel
2:30 PM Participant presentations begin Zoom: Main Session
5:00 PM Adjourn