[ngs-announce] Microbial Metagenomics Summer Course

[C. Titus Brown]

Hi folks,

here's a course offered by some colleagues at MSU.  It includes some
bioinformatics as well as wet lab work.

best,
--titus

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MICROBIAL METAGENOMICS

http://metagenomics.wikidot.com/
Sunday June 3th - Saturday June 16th, 2012
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

This intensive two-week course provides hands-on experience with some  
molecular and computational tools that can be used to study relationships 
between microbial communities and ecosystem functions. During the course 
you will apply them to questions you formulate about denitrifying bacteria 
and the production of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide at  Kellogg 
Biological Station (http://lter.kbs.msu.edu).

Morning lectures will discuss microbial and ecological principles.  
Afternoon wet lab sessions will include purification of DNA from soils and 
their preparation for sequencing and qPCR. In the computer lab you will 
analyze your sequence data with a suite of contemporary programs to  
measure community diversity, and use multivariate statistics to relate the 
structures of these communities to functions. The primary instructors are 
Tom Schmidt, Clegg Waldron & Jay Lennon.  Specialists from MSU and 
elsewhere will also participate.

The course is for about 20 graduate students, postdocs and faculty. We  
encourage diversity of backgrounds. The primary pre-requisite is a keen  
interest in adding metagenomic methods to your research.

Additional information and Application Forms are available at  
http://metagenomics.wikidot.com/.  The deadline for full consideration is 
March 16th 2012.