Monthly hands-on workshops on NHGRI's AnVIL Terra platform — open to researchers at any career stage, delivered by specialists in technical scientific education.
NHGRI's AnVIL Terra platform provides cloud-based access to petabytes of genomic data and scalable compute infrastructure — but navigating it for the first time can be a barrier in itself. These workshops exist to remove that barrier.
Delivered monthly by the Science Writing and Advocacy Group on behalf of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, each session is a focused, hands-on introduction covering data access, workspace setup, and running analysis workflows at scale. No prior cloud experience required.
Past participants have come from academic medical centers, national public health laboratories, government agencies, and independent research institutions across five continents.
Graduate students, postdocs, and early-career scientists building foundational cloud genomics skills to accelerate their research pipelines.
Research scientists and faculty who need practical fluency with AnVIL Terra to lead genomic projects, manage data access, or supervise computational analyses.
Laboratory scientists and genomic epidemiologists at national and state public health agencies applying cloud genomics to outbreak surveillance and pathogen monitoring.
Scientists at institutions in the Global South and low-resource settings, for whom cloud compute provides access to infrastructure that is unavailable locally.
Core facility scientists and research computing professionals who support investigators running large-scale genomic analyses and need to evaluate Terra for institutional use.
Department heads, program officers, and research leaders evaluating AnVIL Terra for broader deployment across their teams, centers, or consortia.
Sessions run monthly on Zoom. Registration is free and open to all. You'll receive a confirmation with connection details and any pre-session materials.
We'll send your confirmation and session details to the email you provided. If you don't see it within a few minutes, check your spam folder.
The Science Writing and Advocacy Group delivers tailored workshops for research departments, consortia, and public health agencies — customized to your workflows, datasets, and skill level.
We build content around your team's specific datasets, tools, and analysis goals.
Single sessions or multi-day workshops, delivered on your timeline.
Delivered remotely or on-site at your institution, wherever your team is based.
We'll be in touch within two business days to discuss your training needs.