Josefa Antón Botella
University of Alicante
Spain
EMBO Practical Course
This course will provide a global overview of the different metagenomic approaches to study microbial communities, covering methods for the functional search of genes, sequencing of metagenomes using the most recent technologies and in silico methods for sequence analysis.
During the course, participants will receive an overview of state-of-the-art genomic technologies and bioinformatic tools. A balanced approach of lectures and practical sessions will provide a general background and the latest advancements in the field as well as its relationship with other disciplines.
The course will begin with experimental training in functional metagenomics by preparing metagenomic libraries for gene searching. Metagenomic DNA will be isolated from soil samples to analyze bacterial diversity in situ by third generation sequencing (Nanopore). Cutting edge single-cell microbial genomics using microfluidics will be addressed.
Additionally, students will learn bioinformatics analysis of metagenomic data
sets, from raw sequences to the application of algorithms. Follow-up practical exercises and sessions to discuss experimental design will allow students to learn and test their knowledge.
In summary, this course will allow participants to work through the entire workflow, from sample preparation to in silico data analysis.
This course is aimed at advanced PhD students and post-doctoral researchers who are doing or planning to start research in the field of metagenomics.
“This course gave me the opportunity to learn from my coursemates and understand the software used in metagenomics. The speakers were friendly and are always ready to answer our research questions, and provide us with valuable advice and comments.” – Lee Hwei Huih, The University of Hong Kong
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University of Alicante
Spain
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm)
France
FISABIO Sequencing and Bioinformatics
Spain
Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)
Spain
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Tübingen University
Germany
EMBL-EBI Hinxton
UK
Georgia Institute of Technology
USA
Hospital Can Misses
Spain
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Chile
Heidelberg University
Germany
French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
France
EMBL Heidelberg
Germnay
FISABIO Sequencing and Bioinformatics
Spain
University of Innsbruck
Austria
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
University of Zagreb
Croatia
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Chile
(Virtual Speaker)
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
FISABIO Sequencing and Bioinformatics
Spain
Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)
Spain
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Course and Conference Team Lead
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Scientific Training Officer
Swetlana Krez
EMBL Heidelberg
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Time (Europe/ Berlin) | Speaker | Location |
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16:00 – 17:00 | Overview of pre-course work, introduction to course content on EMBL eCampus and troubleshooting Giuseppe D’Auria – FISABIO, Spain | Virtual – Zoom meeting |
Time (Europe/ Berlin) | Session | Location |
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09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome, house notes and safety | Courtyard Room A & B |
09:30 – 09:45 | Welcome and Introductions José Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain | Courtyard Room A & B |
09:45 – 10:45 | Flash talks participants 2 min per participant | Courtyard Room A & B |
10:45 – 11:00 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
11:00 – 12:00 | Metagenomics: Concepts, historical milestones and next advance José Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain | Courtyard Room A & B |
12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | EMBL Canteen |
13:00 – 14:00 | Metagenomics library preparation for NGS Vladimir Benes – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany | Courtyard Room A & B |
14:00 – 15:00 | Group Activity – Challenges and Expectations | Courtyard Room A & B |
15:00 – 16:00 | The impact of Metagenomics, on genes and genomes discovery Gabrielle Potock i- Veronese -INRA-LISBP, France | Courtyard Room A & B |
16:00 – 16:30 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
16:30 – 17:30 | What brings a metagenomic approach in cardiometabolic and nutrition-related disorders? Karine Clément – National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm), France | Courtyard Room A & B |
17:30 – 20:00 | Poster Session 1 and pizza dinner | ATC Rooftop lounge |
20:00 | Bus to ISG Hotel | Courtyard Room A & B |
Time (Europe/ Berlin) | Session | Location |
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09:00 – 10:45 | Practical: Extraction of metagenomic DNA in groups from soil samples José Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain Arantxa Lopez – Hospital Can Misses, Spain | Flex Lab A & B |
10:45 – 11:15 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
11:15 – 12:45 | Practical: Quality control of DNA samples (Gel analysis, Qubit assay) Nanopore 16S PCR set up Mireia Osuna Lopez – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Hilal Ozgur – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Laura Villacorta – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany | Flex Lab A & B |
12:45 – 13:45 | Lunch | EMBL Canteen |
13:45 – 14:30 | Discussion of metagenomic DNA Extraction Results José Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain Arantxa Lopez – Hospital Can Misses, Spain | Courtyard Room A & B |
14:30 – 15:30 | Metagenomics and other culture-independent tools to study virus communities Josefa Antón Botella – University of Alicante, Spain | Courtyard Room A & B |
15:30 – 16:45 | Practical: Nanopore: 16S PCR cleanup, finishing library preparation and starting sequencing run, followed by Genomics Core Facility Tour Mireia Osuna Lopez – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Hilal Ozgur – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Laura Villacorta – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany | Flex Lab A & B |
16:45 – 17:15 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
17:15 – 19:15 | Practical: Nanopore: 16S analysis/ DNA cleanup and Sequencing start followed by Genomics Core Facility Tour Mireia Osuna Lopez – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Hilal Ozgur – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Laura Villacorta – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany | Flex Lab A & B |
19:15 – 19:30 | Group activity: Description of Case Studies Elisabeth Zielonka- EMBL Heidelberg, Germany José Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain Giuseppe D’Auria – FISABIO, Spain | Courtyard Room A & B |
19:30 – 19:45 | Bus to ISG Hotel | EMBL bus stop |
20:00 | Dinner at ISG Hotel |
Time (Europe/ Berlin) | Session | Location |
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09:00 – 09:45 | Practical: Test digestion conditions for metagenomic DNA and preparation of agarose gels José Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain Arantxa Lopez – Hospital Can Misses, Spain | Flex Lab A & B |
09:45 – 10:45 | Practical introduction: Single cells genomics in droplets Tobias Wenzel – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile (Virtual Speaker) | Flex Lab A & B |
10:45 – 11:15 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
11:15 – 11:45 | Practical: Loading agarose gels of test-digestion José Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain Arantxa Lopez – Hospital Can Misses, Spain | Flex Lab A & B |
11:45 – 12:45 | Lunch | EMBL Canteen |
12:45 – 14:15 | Practical: Analysis of test-digestion Scale-up of digestion of metagenomic DNA for cloning in the libraries José Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain Arantxa Lopez – Hospital Can Misses, Spain | Flex Lab A & B |
14:15 – 14:45 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
14:45 – 16:45 | Practical: Purification from gel of the digested metagenomic DNA Cloning of the metagenomic DNA + overnight ligation Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain Arantxa Lopez – Hospital Can Misses, Spain | Flex Lab A & B |
16:45 – 17:45 | Practical: Preparing bacterial cultures for droplet generation and demonstration of the droplet generation set-up Patrick Hasenfeld – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Pierre Padilla Pontificia – Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile Sadaf Pashapour – Heidelberg University, Germany | Flex Lab A & B |
17:45 – 18:15 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
18:15 – 19:30 | Droplet generation in groups Patrick Hasenfeld – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Pierre Padilla Pontificia – Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile Sadaf Pashapour – Heidelberg University, Germany | Flex Lab A & B |
19:30 – 20:30 | Dinner | EMBL Canteen |
20:30 | Bus to ISG Hotel | EMBL bus stop |
Time (Europe/ Berlin) | Session | Location |
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09:00 – 11:00 | Practical: Inactivation of Ligase, Dialysis, Transformation of E.Coli (Electroporation) José Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain Arantxa Lopez – Hospital Can Misses, Spain | Flex Lab A & B |
11:00 – 12:00 | Methodological discussion of practical session 1: Metagenomics experimental design: Common shortcoming and pitfalls José Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain | Flex Lab A & B |
12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | EMBL Canteen |
13:00 – 15:00 | Practical: Solving problems and questions: Introduction to Linux and R based on pre-recorded lecture 1 and 2 Giuseppe D’Auria – FISABIO, Spain | Flex Lab A & B |
15:00 – 16:00 | Metabolomic profiling of microbial communities Mariana Reyes Prieto – FISABIO, Spain | Courtyard Room A & B |
16:00 – 16:30 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
16:30 – 17:30 | Pacific Bioscience (PacBio) sequencing for metagenomics Vladimir Benes – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany | Courtyard Room A & B |
17:30 – 18:00 | Bus back to ISG hotel and Downtown | EMBL bus stop |
18:00 – 18:30 | Free evening with tour of Heidelberg |
Time (Europe/ Berlin) | Session | Location |
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09:00 – 09:45 | Practical: Analysis of some colonies from the metagenomic libraries -Interpretation of results José Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain Arantxa Lopez – Hospital Can Misses, Spain | Flex Lab A & B |
09:45 – 11:45 | Practical: Visualization of Droplets Patrick Hasenfeld – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Pierre Padilla Pontificia – Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile Sadaf Pashapour – Heidelberg University, Germany | Flex Lab A & B |
11:45 – 12:45 | Lunch | EMBL Canteen |
12:45 – 13:45 | Functional and taxonomic analysis with MGnify Kale Varsha- EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK | Computer Training Lab |
13:45 – 15:45 | Practical: Functional and taxonomic analysis with MGnify Kale Varsha- EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK | Computer Training Lab |
15:45 – 16:15 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
16:15 – 17:00 | Metatranscriptomics applied to the study microbial communities José Eduardo González Pastor – Center of Astrobiology (CSIC/INTA), Spain | Courtyard Room A & B |
17:00 – 18:00 | Pratical: Comparison of sequencing technologies Nanopore, 16S, PacBio Giuseppe D’Auria – FISABIO, Spain | Computer Training Lab |
18:00 – 20:00 | Poster session with Pizza Dinner | ATC Rooftop lounge |
20:00 | Bus back to the ISG Hotel | EMBL bus stop |
Time (Europe/ Berlin) | Session | Location |
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09:00 – 12:30 | Introduction to 16S rDNA profiling (Illumina/PacBio) Practical 6: 16S rDNA profiling (Illumina/PacBio) Giuseppe D’Auria – FISABIO, Spain Flexible break | Computer Training Lab |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | EMBL Canteen |
13:30 – 14:45 | Practical: Practice to 16S rDNA profiling (Illumina/PacBio) Giuseppe D’Auria – FISABIO, Spain | Computer Training Lab |
14:45 – 15:15 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
15:15 – 17:00 | Practical: Genome-Resolved Metagenomic Kostas Konstantinidis – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Luis-Miguel Rodriguez-R- University of Innsbruck, Austria | Computer Training Lab |
17:00 – 17:30 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
17:30 – 19:30 | Practical: Genome-Resolved Metagenomic Kostas Konstantinidis – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Luis-Miguel Rodriguez-R University of Innsbruck, Austria | Computer Training Lab |
19:30 – 20:30 | Dinner | EMBL Canteen |
20:30 | Bus back to the ISG Hotel |
Time (Europe/ Berlin) | Session | Location |
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09:00 – 11:15 | Practical: Metagenomic assembly, ORF finding, functional annotation. Giuseppe D’Auria – FISABIO, Spain | Computer Training Lab |
11:15 – 11:30 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
11:30 – 12:30 | Analysis Tools Overview: INCA, MILC and MELP Kristian Vlahovicek – University of Zagreb, Croatia | Computer Training Lab |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | EMBL Canteen |
13:30 – 15:30 | Practical: INCA Kristian Vlahovicek – University of Zagreb, Croatia | Computer Training Lab |
15:30 – 16:00 | Break | Courtyard Room A & B |
16:00 – 18:00 | Student presentation preparation time: Case Studies All trainers and speakers | Courtyard Room A & B |
18:00 – 19:00 | Bus Downtown | EMBL bus stop |
19:00 – 22:00 | Dinner Downtown | |
22:00 | Bus back to the ISG Hotel |
Time (Europe/ Berlin) | Session | Location |
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09:45 – 11:45 | Practical: Metagenomic analysis using DIAMOND+MEGAN Daniel Huson – University of Tübingen, Germany | Computer Training Lab |
11:45 – 12:45 | Lunch | EMBL Canteen |
12:45 – 13:45 | Practical: Metagenomic analysis using DIAMOND+MEGAN Daniel Huson – University of Tübingen, Germany | Computer Training Lab |
13:45 – 15:15 | Group activity and presentations: Case Studies | Courtyard Room A & B |
15:15 – 15:45 | Wrap-up and conclusions | Courtyard Room A & B |
15:45 – 16:00 | Bust to Heidelberg train station and Downtown | EMBL bus stop |
The course is limited to 20 participants. For selection purposes, please note that your application will not be considered without a letter of motivation.
Registration fees include admission, course materials, meals and coffee breaks. This EMBO course includes accommodation and transportation to and from the ISG Hotel to the venue
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PhD Student | €550 |
Industry | €1100 |
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Limited financial assistance is provided by the EMBL Advanced Training Centre Corporate Partnership Programme and EMBO in the form of registration fee waivers, travel grants and childcare grants.
Your place in the meeting is only confirmed by paying the registration fee, which is mandatory even when receiving a fee waiver.
The fee waiver will cover the registration sum that you have paid to attend the course.
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Date: 7 - 14 Apr 2025
Location: EMBL Heidelberg
Venue: EMBL Advanced Training Centre
Deadline(s):
Application: 13 Jan 2025
Organisers:
Contact: Maria Bacadare