EWUU fifth meeting - zero-inflation

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Time and location

Tuesday 4 July from 10:00 to 16:00

  • Utrecht University, Androclus building, Room C137b. Address: Yalelaan 1, 3584 CL Utrecht. (Route description)

Agenda with approximate times

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee & tea

10:15 – 10:45 Intro to the topic: zero-inflation

Break (15 min)

11:00 – 12:15 Presentation dr. Stephanie Jurburg (UFZ): Ecological considerations for zero-inflated sequence data

Lunch (60 min)

13:15 – 14:30 Presentation dr. Dennis te Beest & prof. dr. Hendriek Boshuizen (WUR)

Break (15 min)

14:45 – 15:45 Paper discussion: mbDenoise: microbiome data denoising using zero-inflated probabilistic principal components analysis. with an introduction taken from this paper (see above).

15:45 – 16:00 Wrap up

Route to Utrecht University By public transport: From the train station Utrecht Centraal, there are trams and busses to the Utrecht Science Park use e.g. https://9292.nl/ (destination busstop/tram Heidelberglaan).

By car: Type in “Yalelaan 1, Utrecht” in your navigation system and follow the ‘P-route’ to car park P3, P14, or P17. The room is on the first floor of the Androclus building, C137b.

WIFI: Eduroam is available.