Workshop on Decoding Soil Microbiome's Response to Drought Stress Using Morpheus

2024-09-20

We are excited to announce an upcoming workshop titled, "Decoding Soil Microbiome's Response to Drought Stress Using Morpheus," which will take place on September 25^th, 2024. This interactive, hands-on session will guide participants through the fascinating world of metagenomics analysis and its application to understanding soil and plant microbiome responses to environmental stress.

Workshop Details:

Title: Decoding Soil Microbiome's Response to Drought Stress Using Morpheus
Date & Time: September 25^th, 2024 | 13.00 -17.00
Duration: 4 hours
Location: Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Building B, ROOM VI, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ulica Lwowska 1, Toruń, Poland
Instructor: Sascha Patz, Product Manager Metagenomics, Computomics GmbH
Max Participants: 15 people
Mode of participation: In-person only

Workshop Overview:

Metagenomics analysis holds immense potential for stress classification of soil and plants by e.g. identification of respective microbial marker taxa. In the workshop we will learn about how to analyze microbiome sequencing data from soil and plants starting form the quality control towards the microbiome analysis of microbial read data. After attending the class, you will get a basic understanding of the bioinformatics data analysis workflow and methods that are applied to understand microbial dynamics on a genetics scale.

If you are interested in the data, that will be analyzed during the course, please have a look into our recent publication "Interpretable machine learning decodes soil microbiome's response to drought stress” https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-024-00578-1

Participant Requirements:

Basic knowledge in plant-microbiome interaction and microbiome analysis
No computational skills needed
Suitable for participants from Bachelor to PhD levels

Registration: To secure your spot in the workshop, please register by September 23^rd 2024, by sending an email to bliss.furtado@umk.pl . Please note that spaces are limited to 15 participants, so early registration is highly encouraged!

Klaudia Werner