Welcome to the training school - Best Practices for Accounting for Biological Sex in (Transcript)OMICS Studies!
August 24th and 25th at the DKFZ in Heidelberg, Germany
This two day workshop will cover the basics needed to incorporate sex into your data analysis and give you time to work on your own dataset with guided expertise. If you do not have your own data set, one will be provided to you. Basic knowledge of R is required.
Description
Does sex really matter when planning a biomedical research project?
Should experiments always include both males and females in each experimental group? How can we design studies in practice while balancing experimental and ethical constraints, controlling costs, and maintaining sufficient statistical power to detect other biological effects of interest? And will accounting for sex make the analysis more complicated for bioinformaticians?
In this workshop, we will focus on biological sex as a key variable in biomedical research, discussing practical considerations for both experimental design and data analysis. Together, we will explore the concept of biological sex, examining questions such as whether it can truly be considered a binary variable and how it differs from gender, and discuss how its biological complexity can influence research outcomes.
The workshop will combine case studies with guided hands-on exercises using transcriptomics datasets, providing participants with practical tools to integrate sex as a biological variable in their analyses.
Key questions addressed during the workshop will include:
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How can transcriptomics datasets be analyzed appropriately while accounting for sex as a biological variable?
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How can potential sex-related biases in datasets be identified and corrected where possible?
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How can we detect genes showing interactions between sex and other factors of interest (e.g., treatments or environmental conditions)?
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How can different analytical choices influence the conclusions drawn from the data?
We are looking forward to your registration!
The Organizing Committee
CHAIRS / PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Stefania Del Prete, Fiona Brown-Burke, Ivana Jaric
PROGRAM
Confirmed Trainers
Anagha Joshi University of Bergen, Norway
Vidhya Jagannathan University of Bern, Switzerland
Stefania Del Prete The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
Pierre-Luc Germain ETH Zürich, Switzerland
VENUE
The Conference will take place in person in the K1/K2 room (upstairs) in the communication center at the DKFZ.
Im Neuenheimer Feld 280
69120 Heidelberg Germany
TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS
Participants are expected to cover their travel, hotel, and food costs. The workshop covers coffee breaks and lunches for August 24th and 25th.
Supported participation is available for a select number of participants up to 850 Euro total. To apply please, use the application tab on the left hand bar.
Accessibility
ORGANIZER
This event is subject to the DKFZ data protection policy
IN COOPERATION WITH
The training school is co-organized by the EU-SABV COST Action (CA24168), the European Initiative to Enhance the Current SABV Policy in Preclinical Biomedical Research, funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). Learn more about the EU-SABV COST Action on the action webpage.
