Graduate students Rebecca de Wardt and Megan Morris attended the National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS) Spring Workshop on de Novo Transcriptome Assembly held April 30 – May 1 at Indiana University, Bloomington IN. At the workshop they learned about computational resources and bioinformatics pipelines for transcriptomic data, and also caught up with Dinsdale Lab alumna Bhavya Papudeshi, who now works for NCGAS and helped run the workshop.