NCGR 2022 Virtual Metagenomics Workshop

When
January 31 – February 4, 2022 (5 days)
9 am – 4 pm

Where
Online (by the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) Santa Fe, NM)

Audience
This program is geared towards training biologists (undergraduates, graduates, and researchers) with minimal or no bioinformatics experience. Space is limited.

Objective
Students will use the command-line interface to learn and conduct 16S Community Profiling and whole-genome Metagenomics and meta-transcriptomics analysis. Relevant tools such as QIIME2 will be used for community analysis and Centrifuge, MEGAN, DIAMOND, and other tools for meta-transcriptomics analysis.

Topic overview
Microbes are extremely essential for every part of human life. Microbes are closely associated with plants and animals and participate in the healthy functioning of hosts by making all nutrients, vitamins and metals available to them.  Our gut microbes for instance make energy from food available to us while protecting us from other pathogenic bacteria. Hence it is evident, microbes do not conduct these functions as single entities, instead as complex communities.  Through the metagenomics workshop, we will use computational methods to maximize our understanding of the collective genetic composition as well as the activities of complex microbial communities sampled from diverse environments.

Application Due 11:59pm January 25th.  Late applications will not be accepted.  Selection Committee to select participants shortly after the deadline. If any questions arise while reviewing your application packet, we will contact you directly.

https://nminbre.org/ncgr-2022-virtual-metagenomics-workshop/