EMBL-EBI
CABANA Workshop: Introduction to Metagenomics
Date: 2 - 6 December 2019
In this course participants will learn the basics of metagenomics, covering experimental design and workflows, moving through to microbiome analysis via metabarcoding and shotgun metagenomics. The course theme will be the use of metagenomics oriented to biodiversity.
The course will be delivered by experienced and dedicated world-renowned experts, including EMBL-EBI trainers, and will involve presentations, demonstrations and practical exercises to give participants hands-on experience.
Venue: Faculty of Natural Sciences - University of Buenos Aires (FCEN-UBA) Ciudad Universitaria. Nuñez - Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires - Pabellón II
Region: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Postcode: 1428
Target audience: This course is suitable for postgraduate wet-lab researchers and also bioinformaticians at graduate-level upwards within Latin America who are working with and/or generating their own metagenomics datasets. Prerequisites: Undergraduate-level knowledge of biology would be advantageous. Participants will also require a basic knowledge of the Unix command line, and the R statistical packages. We recommend these free tutorials: Basic introduction to the Unix environment: www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix Introduction and exercises for Linux: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/free-linux-training Basic R concept tutorials: www.r-tutor.com/r-introduction Please note this course will be taught in English, however the trainers are fluent in either Spanish, and can offer language support where feasible. A number of travel fellowships are available for this course - early-stage researchers and researchers from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply for CABANA travel fellowships. You can apply for travel fellowships via the course application form.
Capacity: 25
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