Workshops

BV-BRC provides workshops to give hands-on instruction in the use of BV-BRC analysis tools and website features. Workshops can be customized to focus on particular types of analysis, specific organisms, targeted biological systems, or data sets of interest to the participants.

BV-BRC typically hosts four open workshops annually: two at Argonne National Laboratory in the suburbs of Chicago, IL, one at the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, California, and one at the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia. The BV-BRC team can occasionally travel to an onsite location provided that the requesting host can draw at least 40 participants, allow open registration (not limited to host organization members only), and provide an appropriate training room with fast Internet access. Note that all BV-BRC workshops require pre-approval by our sponsor, NIAID, and are limited in number by available funds. International workshops require special permission. To request a workshop, contact us at help@bv-brc.org.

In April of 2024 the BV-BRC had the opportunity to host a BV-BRC workshop bringing together experts to understand how we classify viruses below the species level currently and methods for the future. The meeting was an unqualified success, but this is of course, only the first step. Our goal is to compile a sensible, usable plan to track and name the evolution of viral pathogens in real-time during a disease outbreak. This will then inform and empower the many stakeholders interested in using the information on these evolving lineages, serving as the basis for their response. More information about this workshop can be found here.

BV-BRC Viral Sub-species Classification Workshop at NIAID Rockville, MD, April 8-10, 2024

Workshop Schedule

Institute/Conference	Location	Dates
American Society of Virology	Columbus, OH	Jun 24 - 28, 2024
Viral Sub-Species Classification Workshop	Rockville, MD	Apr 8 - 10, 2024
American Society of Virology	Athens, GA	Jun 24 - 28, 2023
Argonne National Laboratory	Lemont, IL	Jun 26 - 30, 2023
University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute	Charlottesville, VA	Apr 26 - 30, 2023
Argonne National Laboratory	Lemont, IL	Dec 14 - 26, 2022
University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute	Charlottesville, VA	Aug 30 - Sep 01, 2022
VEME20222	Panama City, Panama	Aug 21 - 26, 2022
Argonne National Laboratory	Lemont, IL	July 19 - 21, 2022
ASM Microbe 2022	Washington, DC	Jun 09, 2022
Texas A&M University	College Station, TX	Mar 23 - 24, 2022