Advanced Neurogenomics

Oral exam

PhD students

1. 1.       A primer on regulation of gene expression and statistical considerations
   2.       RNA-seq: how it works
   3.       Sequence quality control and mapping algorithms
   4.       Detection of differential gene expression
   5.       Clustering and other methods to reduce dimensionality
   6.       Gene Ontology and Gene set enrichment
   7.       Network analysis
   8.       Applications of network analysis to the brain
   9.       Cell-specific transcriptome analysis in the brain
   10.       Single-cell RNA-seq, methods and analysis 
   11.       Single-cell RNA-seq, applications to the nervous system
   12.       Patch-seq and in situ sequencing
   13.       Analysis of microRNAs and RNA immunoprecipitation
   14.       Epigenetic analysis: techniques for DNA methylation
   15.       Epigenetic analysis: CHIP-seq 
   16.    ,  Proteome analysis by mass-spectroscopy 
   17.       Analysis of synaptic proteome
   18.       Analysis of nascent proteins and RNAs
   19.       Expression QTLs
   20.       Microbiome 

    

Cellerino & Sanguanini "Transcriptome analysis" Ed. Scuola Normale