2:00–5:30 pm        Workshops                   Plaza Room

 

2:00–3:00 pm     Workshop 1: Infecting the Media: A workshop on preparing a press release
Featuring C.J. Janovy, Director of Content, KCUR Kansas City; Kay Hawes, Associate Director of News and Media Relations, University of Kansas Medical Center; and Celia Llopis-Jepsen, reporter for the Kansas News Service.
 

Organizers: Florian Reyda & Sara Weinstein, in conjunction with the ASP Public Relations Committee.

 

3:30–5:30 pm     Workshop 2: A practical introduction to generating genomic data using the Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencing platform
 

Organizers: Kaylee Herzog & Joseph Fauver, University of Nebraska Medical Center