Metagenomics Workshop
Application: Fill out the online application here: Metagenomics Workshop Application
Application due by July 28, 2025
When
August 04-08, 2025 (5 days)
9 am – 4 pm
How much does it cost?
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Topic Overview
Metagenomics approaches sequence and analyze communities of organisms, allowing the identification of community members and/or the genes and metabolic pathways that they harbor. In this workshop, you will learn how to analyze both 16S amplicon and whole genome shotgun sequence data, including filtering host reads (if appropriate), performing community analysis and creating metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), calculate measures of diversity, and visualize results. You will also learn how to perform metatranscriptomic analyses that enable you to investigate genes that are being actively expressed in the community.
Objective
Learn how to use the UNIX command line, analytical workflows and public tools to independently analyze sequencing data plus how to visualize and render data using graphing tools.
This workshop covers analyses of 16s and whole genome shotgun metagenomic sequence data, including community analysis and assembly.
Audience
This workshop is targeted towards undergraduate or graduate students, and researchers in biology or related fields.
Prerequisites
Unix, sequencing basics and other study guides will be provided upon acceptance.
What to expect upon acceptance
Email confirming acceptance into the internship program and further details.
Logistics
The workshop will be conducted virtually using primarily Zoom as our conferencing platform. We will also use a variety of other software and tools, and you will log onto NCGR’s Unix analysis server for the command line tools. After the workshop, students can use our analysis server for their research or education purposes for up to one year.
Late applications will not be accepted. Selection Committee to select participants shortly after the deadline. If any questions arise while reviewing your application packet, we will contact you directly. Contact
Please contact Project Coordinator, Ethan Price, with any additional questions you may have at inbre@ncgr.org and we look forward to your participation!
Sponsored by New Mexico IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (NM-INBRE).