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When Mohit Jain joined the ӳ����ý, he had no idea that the postdoc at the desk next to him would become a close collaborator and friend. Although Mo and Roland Nilsson sat only a few feet apart, they were working in different worlds.

“I spoke the language of clinical biology, and Roland spoke the language of math,” Mo recalls. “We’d look at each other’s data, and it was as if we were speaking completely different languages. We couldn’t decipher at all what the other person did.”

Last week on the ӳ����ý website, we featured recent work by ӳ����ý researchers that can shed new light on the massive genomic changes taking place in cancer cells. The genomes in tumors are often drastically disorganized, with large chunks of missing or extra DNA — even whole chromosomes — in addition to smaller, single-letter mutations. These alterations can complicate the search for genetic changes underlying cancer.

The ӳ����ý is launching a new series of workshops to share laboratory and computational methods developed within our community and extend the impact of our science. These ӳ����ýE workshops, which launch May 21, are open to all ӳ����ý staff and to scientists from the Harvard and MIT communities. 

The ӳ����ýE curriculum ("E" stands for educational, and "ӳ����ý" means collaboration) offers insights and hands-on training in rapidly evolving technologies, high-throughput methods, and computational tools that are not typically found in conventional research labs.