Genome-centric metagenomics for bioremediation and resource recovery
Online pre-registration closed
Deadline: September 2nd, 2022
The course has no registration fee.
Partial fellowships to cover travel and accommodation costs are available
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1. Dates:
October 31st to November 4th, 2022
2. Objectives of the Course:
The Training is specifically designed to provide practical insight into the use of genome-centric metagenomics for the analysis of metagenomic data, to improve our understanding of microbial metabolism and interactions in natural and engineered ecosystems, as well as to extract novel biological information, including the discovery of new genes and pathways.
The program will include lectures on microbiomes from environmental and bioengineering processes. Practical sessions will focus on genome assembly from metagenomic data sets using real data from metagenomic projects on waste treatment and resource recovery.
Practical sessions will be hands-on activities that rely on the use of Linux. Therefore, previous knowledge of Linux is required for all participants.
3. Course Description:
Lectures will be held in the mornings, and will cover the following subjects:
1. Practical aspects of microbiome studies
2. Introduction to genome-centric metagenomics
3. Urban metagenomics and antibiotic resistance reservoirs
4. The activated sludge microbiome
5. The anaerobic digestion microbiome
6. Functional roles during anaerobic digestion of saccharides and biogas production unveiled by genome-centric metagenomics
7. Insight into complex networks
8. Earth’s microbiome
Afternoon sessions will be dedicated to hands-on practical sessions, covering the following topics:
1. Sequence data files. Reads quality control and processing
2. Genome and metagenome assembly
3. Metagenomic binning based on single or multiple data sets. Genome curation
4. Taxonomic classification and functional annotation. Specialized databases.
5. Enzyme discovery and function prediction
6. Data visualization
4. Lecturers:
Prof. Stefano Campanaro
Associate Professor
Director of CRIBI Biotechnology Center
Department of Biology – University of Padova, Italy
Dr. Ariel Chernomoretz
Group Leader – Integrative Systems Biology. Fundación Instituto Leloir.
Assistant Professor – Departament of Physics. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr. Hebe Dionisi
Head of the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory. Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos (CESIMAR-CONICET)- Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina
Dr. Leonardo Erijman
Senior Researcher. Head of Microbial Ecolgy Laboratory. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingenieria genetica y Biologia Molecular “Dr Héctor N. Torres” (INGEBI-CONICET).
Associate Professor – Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr. Claudia Etchebehere
Senior Researcher – Head of Microbial Ecology Laboratory. Department of Biochemistry and Microbial Genomics. Biological Research Institute Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay
Dr. Gregorio M. Iraola Bentancor
Group Leader – Microbial Genomics Lab. Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay.
International Fellow. Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
Adjunct International Professor. Center for Integrative Biology – Universidad Mayor, Santiago de Chile, Chile
5. Practical Sessions:
Dr. Leandro Guerrero
Assistant Researcher. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular “Dr Héctor N. Torres” (INGEBI-CONICET). Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr. Patricia Bovio-Winkler
Research Scientist. Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Department of Microbial Biochemistry and Genomic, Biological Research Institute “Clemente Estable”, Montevideo, Uruguay
Ms. Paula Beati
Bioinformatic Unit Staff. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular “Dr Héctor N. Torres” (INGEBI-CONICET). Buenos Aires, Argentina