• March 29, 2024

Study of microbial communities in freshwater: from isolation to -omics 

Study of microbial communities in freshwater: from isolation to -omics 

Study of microbial communities in freshwater: from isolation to -omics  1024 1024 SUS-MIRRI.IT

Organiser: CNR-IRSA Verbania 

22-24 April 2024 

Where: online, https://l.cnr.it/mgu6o 

Teachers: Dr. Cristiana Callieri, Dr. Ester M. Eckert, Dr. Emanuele Ferrari, Dr. Laura Garzoli, Dr. Sven Iburg 

 Program 

Monday, April 22nd 

Module 1: Aquatic microbial communities isolation and assessment methods. 

– 10.00 – 12:00 Methods for isolating fungi and bacteria from aquatic ecosystems 

(Dr. Laura Garzoli, Dr. Sven Iburg) 

– 15.00 – 16.00 Marine and freshwater picocyanobacteria: who they are and how to isolate and culture them (Dr. Cristiana Callieri) 

Tuesday, April 23rd 

Module 2. Protein identification through nLC-HRMS proteomics and bioinformatic analysis of large protein datasets. (Dr. Emanuele Ferrari) 

– 10.00 – 12:00 Mass spectrometry applications in proteomics of microbial communities. 

– 13.30 – 15.30 Bioinformatics analysis of proteomic data: proteins identification and functional analysis. 

Wednesday, April 24th 

Module 3. high throughput sequence analysis of amplicon sequencing data (metabarcoding) and analyses of the communities in terms of diversity and composition. 

(Dr. Ester Eckert) 

– 10.00 – 12:00 / 13.30 – 15.30 Analysis of metarbacoding data on bacteria, fungi, and meiofauna. R-based course with packages DADA2, vegan, ggplot2, phyloseq. 

For further information: please write and email to laura.garzoli@cnr.it 

Registration to the course: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjfAjsciT_t2qy0JdOUfbz_FdNZK-mZ19fSkLNaBlAMPn6DQ/viewform 

Maximum participants: 500