Courses and Series

Molecular Laboratory Management & Reporting: A Short Course for Laboratory Professionals: While most molecular pathology professionals receive a deep foundation in science and clinical practice, there is still a critical need for training in laboratory management and the soft skills required for operational effectiveness. This certificate program will provide an overview of best practices in many areas of laboratory management and reporting. See also, the JMD article highlighting the content of the course.

Next Generation Bioinformatics: Beyond Simple Variant Calling: This certificate program is designed to give participants a deep dive into the challenges and proposed solutions in bioinformatics for next generation sequencing (NGS) testing. The talks go beyond the typical basics in bioinformatics of detecting simple point mutations and small indels into harder-to-detect genomic anomalies. The talks in this Certificate Program discuss common problems and challenges seen in NGS data. These include strand bias, false positives, homology to interpretation challenges with databases, and HGVS nomenclature and proposed solutions for each of these.