June 26-27, 2025 | Livestream, virtual training

The Epigenetics Boot Camp is a two-day intensive boot camp of seminars and hands-on analytical sessions to provide an overview of concepts, techniques, and data analysis methods utilized in human epigenetics studies and focused on DNA methylation array.

This two-day intensive boot camp integrates the principle concepts of epigenetics and the effects of risk factors on the epigenome as we step through the key components of designing and executing DNA methylation studies. Led by a team of scientists with more than 50 years of combined expertise in the field of environmental epigenetics, this epigenetics training will integrate seminar lectures with hands-on computer sessions to put concepts into practice. Emphasis will be given to leveraging existing resources from ongoing studies and initiating new investigations. The afternoon lab sessions will provide an opportunity to work hands-on with real methylation data generated by the Illumina Infinium MethylationEPIC (850k) BeadChip platform. Participants will learn and practice data handling, cleaning, and basic analysis of epigenome-wide DNA methylation data. This training will not cover WGBS or analyses from sequencing experiments in animal models.

By the end of the epigenetics training, participants will be familiar with the following topics:

• Principles of epigenetics
• Concept ideation and study design
• Sample collection and processing
• Laboratory methods and platforms for analysis
• Data handling and cleaning
• Analysis of 450K/EPIC data
• Study design advantages and pitfalls
• Emerging epigenetic topics and laboratory platforms

Investigators at all career stages are welcome to attend, and we particularly encourage trainees and early-stage investigators to participate.

•     Contact the Epigenetics Boot Camp team.

Capacity is limited. Paid registration is required to attend.

Title: Costs of implementing the communities that HEAL intervention to reduce opioid overdose deaths in four states

Date: June 26, 2025; 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Location: Online

Speakers:

Bruce Schackman, Ph.D.

Professor of Population Health Sciences

Weill Cornell Medical College

Laura Starbird, Ph.D., RN

Assistant Professor, Family and Community Health

Penn Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

Description: The HEALing Communities Study (HCS) was conducted across four states with the goal of decreasing opioid-related overdose deaths by increasing community-level adoption of evidence-based practices (EBPs). The Communities That HEAL (CTH) intervention delivered in the study provided communities with training, technical assistance, and resources including 1) community engagement to facilitate data-driven EBP selection and implementation, 2) a menu of EBPs to implement, and 3) communication campaigns. In this talk we will describe the methods and results of an economic cost analysis for the 33 communities implementing CTH over a 30-month intervention period in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio. We will also address approaches and challenges to using these results to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses.

In celebration of June as National Ocean Month, the NSF Division of Ocean Sciences looks forward to the 7th annual Frontiers in Ocean Sciences Symposium, which highlights NSF-supported scientists transforming ocean science, including Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory oceanographer and carbon cycle scientist Galen McKinley.

This year’s symposium will be centered on the recently released National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine report, “Forecasting the Ocean: The 2025-2035 Decade of Ocean Science.”

The Symposium will start with a discussion with report authors, followed by three groups of short talks by NSF-funded scientists for each of the report’s key science questions:

• Ocean and Climate: How will the ocean’s ability to absorb heat and carbon change? with Galen A. McKinley, Naomi Levine, and Susan Lozier
• Ecosystem Resilience: How will marine ecosystems respond to changes in the Earth system? with Rachel Bay, Katherine Mills, and Deron Burkepile
• Extreme Events: How can we improve our ability to forecast extreme events driven by ocean and seafloor processes? with Tina Dura, Patrick Lynett, and Diego Melgar

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July 7, 2025 | Livestream, virtual training

This five-hour hands-on writing bootcamp covers several approaches to create compelling research narrative and is led by expert instructors with more than two decades of experience providing research writing, editing, and training for researchers worldwide. This intensive will lead you through detailed examples, revise writing in guided group settings with instructors, and then put those lessons into practice on your own writing. Thus, we encourage you to bring a draft in progress (e.g., grant proposal, research manuscript), so this workshop can directly impact an active writing project. Participants also will come away with an SOP for writing logically and will learn some additional narrative tricks and tips to entice and engage readers on their science.

By the end of this writing intensive workshop, participants will have:

• A clear and organized approach for writing manuscripts and grants
• Several easy grammar concepts for clear communication
• Examples to share/work with their trainees
• An improved portion of your own grant or manuscript (if you bring it with you to the workshop)

Investigators at all career stages are welcome to attend, and we particularly encourage research trainees and early-stage investigators to participate. To register for this training, you must have:

1. Written at least one thesis chapter, manuscript, or grant
2. A grant or manuscript that is in progress is strongly encouraged, but not required to attend this training.

Additional Information

• Subscribe for updates on Workshop details and registration deadlines.
• Contact the Creating Compelling Scientific Narrative Workshop team.

Capacity is limited. Paid registration required to attend.