EMBL Courses and Conferences during the Coronavirus pandemic
With the onsite programme paused, many of our events are now being offered in virtual formats.
Registration is open as usual for many events, with back-up plans in place to move further courses and conferences online as necessary. Registration fees for any events affected by the COVID-19 disruption are fully refundable.
More information for participants of events at EMBL Heidelberg can be found here.
Programme
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Please note the below programme still subject to changes
| Time | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Bus from ISG Hotel to EMBL ATC entrance |
ISG Hotel Bus Stop |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Welcome and EMBL Overview |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 09:15 - 09:30 |
Introduction to Training Lab and House notes |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 09:30 - 09:45 |
Welcome and Introductions |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 09:45 - 10:45 |
Flash talks participants |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Lecture: Metagenomics: Concepts, historical milestones and next advance |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch break |
EMBL Canteen |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lecture: Metagenomics library preparation for NGS |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 14:00 - 15:00 |
Group Activity |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 15:00 - 16:00 |
Lecture: The impact of Metagenomics, on genes and genomes discovery |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee break |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 16:30 - 17:30 |
Lecture: What bring metagenomic approach in cardiometabolic and nutrition-related disorders? |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Poster Session |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 19:30 - 20:30 |
Dinner |
ATC Rooftop Lounge |
| 20:30 |
Bus to ISG Hotel |
ATC Bus Stop |
| Time | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Bus from ISG Hotel to EMBL ATC entrance |
ISG Hotel Bus Stop |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Quick overview of the day |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 09:15 - 10:30 |
Practical: Extraction of metagenomic DNA in groups from soil samples |
Training Lab A+B |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
Courtyard Room A & B |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Practical: Quality control of DNA samples and Nanopore 16s PCR set up |
Training Lab A+B |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch break |
EMBL Canteen |
| 13:30 - 14:30 |
Practical: Discussion of Extraction Results |
Training Lab A+B |
| 14:30 - 15:30 |
Lecture: Metagenomics and other culture-independent tools to study virus communities |
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 |
Training Lab A+B | Gene Core Facility |
|
Flexible Coffee Break |
Courtyard Room A & B |
|
| 17:00 - 19:00 |
Practical: Nanopore: 16S analysis/ DNA cleanup and Sequencing start |
Training Lab A+B |
| 19:00 | Dinner | EMBL Canteen |
| 19:00 | Bus to ISG Hotel | ATC Bus Stop |
| Time | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Bus from ISG Hotel to EMBL ATC entrance |
ISG Hotel Bus Stop |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Quick overview of the day |
Courtyard Room A+B |
| 09:15 - 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 - FISABIO, Spain |
Training Lab A+B |
| 09:45 - 11:00 |
Practical introduction: Single cells genomics |
Courtyard Room A+B |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
Coffee Break |
Courtyard Room A+B |
| 11:15 - 12:30 |
Practical: Digestion of metagenomic DNA for cloning in the libraries |
Training Lab A+B |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
EMBL Canteen |
| 13:30 - 14:30 |
Practical: Purification from gel of the digested metagenomic DNA |
Training Lab A+B |
| Flexible Coffee break |
Courtyard Room A+B |
|
| 15:00 - 17:00 |
Practical: Cloning of the metagenomic DNA + overnight ligatio |
Training Lab A+B |
| 17:00 - 19:30 |
Practical (single cell microbial genomics): Droplet generation for single cell genomics and PCR set-up |
Computer Training Lab |
| 19:30 - 20:30 |
Dinner |
ISG Hotel |
| 20:30 |
Bus to ISG Hotel |
ATC Bus Stop |
| Time | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Bus from ISG Hotel to EMBL ATC entrance |
ISG Hotel Bus Stop |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Quick overview of the day |
Courtyard Room A+B |
| 09:15 - 11:00 |
Practical: Transformation in E. coli of the library |
Training Lab A+B |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Methodological lecture and discussion session: Metagenomics experimental design: Common shortcoming and pitfalls |
Courtyard Room A+B |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch break |
EMBL Canteen |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lecture: Hands-on/Introduction to Linux I |
Courtyard Room A+B |
| 14:00 -14:30 | Coffee break |
Courtyard Room A+B |
| 14:30 - 17:00 |
Hands-on/Introduction to Linux II |
Computer Training Lab |
| 17:00 |
Free evening with tour of Heidelberg |
|
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Bus to ISG Hotel |
ATC Bus Stop |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Bus to Bismarkplatz |
ISG Hotel bus stop |
| Time | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Bus from ISG Hotel to EMBL ATC entrance |
ISG Hotel Bus Stop |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Quick overview of the day Giuseppe D'Auria - FISABIO Sequencing and Bioinformatics Service, Spain |
Computer Training Lab |
| 09:15 - 10:00 |
Practical: Analysis of some colonies from the metagenomic libraries -Interpretation of results |
Training Lab A+B |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee break |
Computer Training Lab |
| 10:30 - 12:30 | Lecture: Diversity matters, a place for a classification of uncultured microorganisms in Taxonomy Kostas Konstantinidis - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
Computer Training Lab |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
EMBL Canteen |
| 13:30 - 15:30 |
Lecture and Hands-on: the MiGA web-server: the genome-equivalent of RDP/Silva SSU web-servers |
Computer Training Lab |
| 15:30 - 18:30 |
Practical (single cell microbial genomics): Visualization of droplets and single cell analysis |
|
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Flexible Coffee break |
Computer Training Lab |
|
| 18:30 - 19:30 |
Lecture and Hands-on: Tools for specialized analyses of metagenomes |
Computer Training Lab |
| 18:15 - 18:30 |
Bus to ISG Hotel |
ATC Bus Stop |
| 18:45 |
Dinner & drinks/ BBQ |
ISG Hotel |
| Time | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Bus from ISG Hotel to EMBL ATC entrance |
ISG Hotel Bus Stop |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Quick overview of the day |
Computer Training Lab |
| 09:15 - 11:00 |
Lecture: Some theory on taxonomy, phylogeny and diversity measures based on 16S rRNA gene amplicons and direct metagenomic |
Computer Training Lab |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
Computer Training Lab |
| 11:15 – 12:15 |
Lecture: Practical session 16S rRNA gene amplicons and direct metagenomic |
Computer Training Lab |
| 12:15 - 13:15 |
Lunch break |
EMBL Canteen |
| 13:15 – 14:15 |
Hands-on: Practical session 16S rRNA gene amplicons and direct metagenomic |
Computer Training Lab |
| 14:15 – 15:00 |
Hands-on: Introduction to 16S rDNA profiling using QIIME2 |
Computer Training Lab |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee break |
Computer Training Lab |
| 15:30 - 18:15 |
Hands-on: Introduction to 16S rDNA profiling using QIIME2 |
Computer Training Lab |
| 18:15 - 19:15 |
Dinner |
Computer Training Lab |
| 19:15 - 21:15 |
Poster Session |
|
| 21:15 |
Bus to ISG Hotel |
ATC Bus Stop |
| Time | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Bus from ISG Hotel to EMBL ATC entrance |
ISG Hotel Bus Stop |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Quick overview of the day |
Computer Training Lab |
| 09:15 – 11:15 |
Lecture and Hands-on: Upstream analysis: data organisation and standards in metagenomics and Metagenomic assembly, ORF finding, functional annotation |
Computer Training Lab |
| 11:15 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
Computer Training Lab |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Practical: MiniIon data anaysis: QC and Taxonomy profiling Jan Provaznik - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany |
Computer Training Lab |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch break |
Computer Training Lab |
| 14:00 – 15:00 |
Lecture: Analysis Tools Overview: INCA, MILC and MELP |
Computer Training Lab |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee break |
Computer Training Lab |
| 15:30 - 17:30 |
Hands-on: INCA |
Microscopy room and Computer Training Lab |
| 17:30 -18:30 |
Presentation preparation |
Computer Training Lab |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Dinner | |
| 20:00 |
Bus to ISG Hotel |
ATC Bus Stop |
| Time | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Bus from ISG Hotel to EMBL ATC entrance |
ISG Hotel Bus Stop |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Quick overview of the day |
Computer Training Lab |
| 09:15 - 10:30 |
Lecture and Hands-on: Functional and taxonomic analysis |
Computer Training Lab |
| 10:30- 10:45 | Coffee break |
Computer Training Lab |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Practical: Hands-on/MEGAN Daniel Huson - University of Tübingen, Germany |
Computer Training Lab |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch break |
EMBL Canteen |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Practical: Hands-on/MEGAN |
Computer Training Lab |
| 14:00 - 16:30 |
Group activity and Presentations |
Computer Training Lab |
| 16:30 - 16:45 |
Coffee break |
Computer Training Lab |
| 16:45 - 17:45 |
Wrap-up and conclusions |
Computer Training Lab |
| 17:45 - 18:15 |
Bus to ISG Hotel |
ATC Bus Stop |
| 18:15 - 18:45 |
Bus to Neckarmünzplatz |
ISG Hotel Bus Stop |
| 19:00 |
Dinner Downtown |