diff --git a/workflows/rstudiodocker/Dockerfile b/workflows/rstudiodocker/Dockerfile
index 690aac2d0fce9a105214e4b1062fe2ceb95d66f3..5e184d098f31f33ed558ad9552fe3a641579795f 100644
--- a/workflows/rstudiodocker/Dockerfile
+++ b/workflows/rstudiodocker/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 FROM rocker/r-ver:latest
 
-RUN useradd --create-home --shell /bin/bash ZIM-gast 
-RUN mkdir /home/ZIM-gast/rnaseq-workshop
+RUN useradd --create-home --shell /bin/bash zim-gast 
+RUN mkdir /home/zim-gast/rnaseq-workshop
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.licenses="GPL-2.0-or-later" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker-versioned2" \
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ RUN Rscript -e "devtools::install_github('pachterlab/sleuth')"
 
 
 EXPOSE 8787
-WORKDIR /home/ZIM-gast/rnaseq-workshop
+WORKDIR /home/zim-gast/rnaseq-workshop
 
 #CMD ["bash"]
 CMD ["/init"]
diff --git a/workflows/rstudiodocker/instructions.md b/workflows/rstudiodocker/instructions.md
index c5bbb49bca6127ba50a6f8b87bdb7c35ba12a28f..e2ad0fd422fafe7a6ccee25a728543328f138165 100644
--- a/workflows/rstudiodocker/instructions.md
+++ b/workflows/rstudiodocker/instructions.md
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ sudo docker build -t rstudio --rm .
 ```
 
 ```
-sudo docker run --rm -p 8787:8787 -e PASSWORD=rstudio --mount type=bind,source=${PWD}/rnaseq-workshop,target=/home/ZIM-gast/rnaseq-workshop rstudio
+sudo docker run --rm -p 8787:8787 -e PASSWORD=rstudio --mount type=bind,source=${PWD}/rnaseq-workshop,target=/home/zim-gast/rnaseq-workshop rstudio
 ```
 
 Then go to 'localhost:8787' in the browser on the host machine.
 
 username and password are both 'rstudio'.
 
-once rstudio is open, you will need to run `setwd('/home/ZIM-gast/rnaseq-workshop/')`
+once rstudio is open, you will need to run `setwd('/home/zim-gast/rnaseq-workshop/')`
 
 To create tar