In this class, you will collect your own environmental sample and study the diversity of its microorganism population. For this purpose, you are going to apply Oxford Nanopore sequencing in the wet lab and then analyse the results with computational methods of Bioinformatics.
By DNA preparation and sequencing, you will gain "first-contact" wet lab experience. In the larger part of this modal, you will analyse the generated data in depth using state-of-the-art Bioinformatic tools e.g. genome assembly, gene prediction, analysis of species diversity, and comparison of data sets. Thus, this modal provides an all-in-one combination of molecular-biology experiments and computational analysis. It introduces you to practical work in modern molecular biological research as well as motivates the exploration of bioinformatics methods from concrete analysis demands.
- Teaching coordinator: Berkemer Sarah
- Teaching coordinator: Ferreira-Cerca Sébastien
- Teaching coordinator: Will Sebastian