WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT?
Hello and welcome to the registration page for the Practical Course on “Integrated multi-omics of microbial communities”.
Microbiomes play important roles in host health, geochemical cycles, and biotechnological processes. To better understand these processes, we can characterize microbial communities and their members by meta-omics. Integrated analysis of the metagenome, metatranscriptome, metaproteome, and metametabolome provides the foundation for microbial systems ecology.
This Practical Course is aimed at early-stage researchers (PhD candidates, early PostDocs) with prior expertise in one or more of these “meta-omes” and who are planning to perform multi-omics studies of microbiota. Participants will receive dedicated training on how to integrate meta-omic data and how linking all this information can provide novel insights into microbial systems. The course should provide points of reference in experimental design, method selection, and data analysis.
TOPICS
This course is split into two parts: an online part and an on-site part. Introductions to the individual meta-omes will be given in half-day online lectures, which prepare the foundation for the on-site activities. The integration of different meta-omic data will be the focus of the on-site course. We will tackle integration from multiple perspectives: improving data processing via utilization of multiple omics, data management for integrative multi-omics, genome-centric integration and genome-scale models, statistical and data-driven integration. Participants are encouraged to bring their own data along to apply the newly gained knowledge. Special emphasis is put on case discussions and problem solving for the participants’ data.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Participants will be selected based on a motivation letter and a short academic CV, possibly including a publications list, which are all provided in a single PDF.
Applicants are expected to perform meta-omics-based research on microbial communities and have experience with the computational analysis of at least one "meta-ome".
In the motivation letter, please answer the following questions:
- What is your experience with single- or multi-meta-omics? Highlight your skills and expertise, previous training, and level of proficiency in computational methods and statistics.
- How will your research project and future studies benefit from your participation in this course? Shortly introduce your research project, describe the "meta-omics" you are using or want to use in the future. Highlight the relevance of multi-omics analyses in this project. Also point out the integration questions which you are most interested in.
The organizers will give priority to early-stage researchers and strive to reach balance in terms of gender and geographical location of the home institutes.
SPEAKERS
DATES
7. October 2024, 11:00 - 10. October 2024, 16:00
LOCATION
University of Luxembourg - Campus Belval
4365 Belval
Luxembourg
PARTICIPATION FEES & PAYMENT
The participation fees are 300€.
Payment details will be sent by e-mail to the selected participants.
A maximum of four reduced participation fees of 50€ each are available.
A maximum of four travel grants of 200€ each are available.
CONTACT
Cedric Laczny, Ph.D.
E-mail: cedric.laczny@uni.lu
Tel: +352 46 66 44 90 70
This course is enabled through the PROSPECTOMICS project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 899667.
