METAGENOMICS FORUM

Please check the Metagenomics Bulletin Board for follow-ups to the seminars and ads related to Microbiology, Genomics and Metagenomics.
All times are in CET (Central European Time).

Previous seminars:

• Thursday 14th July
  Bas E. Dulith (European Virus Bioinformatics Centre, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Utrecht University, Netherlands)
  "Mapping the microdiverse and modelling its drivers"


• Thursday 30th June
  Rachel Whitaker (Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, USA)
  "Tracking viral epidemics in microbial populations with CRISPR-Cas"
  [Video]

• Thursday 16th June
  Meinhard Simon, Leon Dlugosch, Felix Milke (Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Germany)
  "The Atlantic Ocean Microbiome - its shaping ecological organisms and functional traits"
  [Video]

• Thursday 26th May
  Maxim Rubin Blum (Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Israel)
  "Metabolic versatility of microbes in deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps"
  [Video]

• Thursday 19th May
  Mart Krupovic (Institute Pasteur, Paris, France)
  "Teasing out the secrets of the archaeal virosphere"
  [Video]

• Thursday 21st April
  Yusuke Okazaki (Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Uniersity, Japan)
  "Long- and short-read-resolved microdiversity of lake bacterioplankton genomes"
  [Video]

• Thursday 31st March
  Robert Bowers (JGI, California, USA)
  "Hot spring genomics, one cell at a time"

• Thursday 17th March
  Alejandro Palomo (Southern University of Science & Technology, Shenzhen, China)
  "Discovery and description of complete ammonia oxidizers"
  [Video]

• Thursday 24th February
  Alejandra Prieto Davó (Unidad Sisal, UNAM Mexico)
  "Microbial diversity and potential for natural products discovery in the Maya underworld"
  [Video]

• Thursday 17th February
  Clara Fuchsman (UMCES Horn Point Laboratory, Combridge MD, USA)
  "Phylogenetic metagenomic read placement: utilization for zooplankton, SAR11 ecotypes and viral host genes"
  [Video]

• Thursday 3rd February
  Felipe Hernandes Coutinho (ICM-CSIC, Department of marine biology and oceanography, Spain)
  "New viral geochemical roles revealed through metagenomics"
  [Video]

• Thursday 27th January
  Donato Giovannelli (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
  "Metagenomics of subsurface microbial communities at convergent margins"
  [Video]

• Thursday 20th January
  David W. Ussery (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA)
  "Mash-based analyses of Escherichia coli genomes reveal 14 distinct phylogroups"
  [Video]

• Thursday 13rd January
  Louis-Marie Bobay (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)
  "The impact on recombination on microbial species"
  [Video]

• Thursday 23th December
  Martin Wu (University of Virginia, USA)
  "16S rRNA copy number prediction and its implications in microbial diversity analyses"
  [Video]

• Thursday 9th December
  Jose R. de la Torre (San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA)
  "Ecological genomics of globally distributed populations of thermophilic ammonia-oxidizing archaea"
  [Video]

• Thursday 2nd December
  Yu-Hsiang Chen (Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
  "Illuminating microbial dark matter with long- and short-read sequencing platforms"
  [Video]

• Friday 19th November
  Per Halkjær Nielsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
  "The global wastewater treatment microbiota - How close are we on revealing its structure and function?"
  [Video]

• Thursday 11th November
  W. Ford Doolittle (University of Dalhousie, Canada)
  "Darwinizing Gaia"
  [Video]

• Thursday 4th November
  Fernando Meyer (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany)
  "Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation - The Second Round of Challenges"
  [Video]

• Thursday 28th October
  Matthias Hotzinger (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
  "Pan-genome structure of a freshwater bacterial species distributed across Europe"
  [Video]

• Thursday 21th October
  David Walsh (Concordia University, Canada)
  "Introducing the Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A continental-scale assessment of lake microbiome diversity"
  [Video]

• Thursday 14th October
  Manuel Martinez-Garcia (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
  "Not everything is said with metagenomics: Lessons from single virus genomics in the viral world"
  [Video]

• Thursday 7th October
  Asaf Levy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
  "The extracellular contractile injection system - a new environmental toxin delivery system"
  [Video]

• Thursday 30th September
  Simon Roux (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, California, USA)
  "Metagenomics exploration of Diversity-Generating Retroelements: the who, where, what and why of targeted mutagenesis in the environment"
  [Video]

• Thursday 23th September
  Chuanlun Zhang (Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China)
  "Archaea and the Earth: A geologist's view of Thaumarchaeota speciation coinciding with major geological events"
  [Video]

• Thursday 16th September
  Henk Bolhuis (NIOZ, The Netherlands)
  "Spatiotemporal variations in a coastal microbial mat"
  [Video]

• Thursday 2nd September
  Laura Villanueva (Dpt. od Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, The Netherlands)
  "Membrane lipids of Archaea: From ecology to evolution"
  [Video]

• Friday 23th July
  Edward F. DeLong (University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA)
  "Functional metagenomics: Physiological and biochemical characterization of wild genes"
  [Video]

• Friday 16th July
  Lucas Ustick (University of California, Irvine, USA)
  "Metagenomic analysis reveals global-scale patterns of ocean nutrient limitation"
  [Video]

• Friday 2nd July
  Karel Kopejtka (Institute of Microbiology, Trebon, Czech Republic)
  "Simultaneous presence of Bacteriochlorophyll and Xanthorhodopsin genes in a freshwater bacterium"
  [Video]

• Friday 25th June
  Danny Ionescu (Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany)
  "Achromatium: A giant bacterium with split personalities"
  [Video]

• Friday 18th June
  Stilianos Louca (Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA)
  "The rates of global bacterial and archaeal dispersal"
  [Video]

• Friday 11th June
  David Moreira (CNRS Paris, France)
  "Illuminating the lifestyle of the predatory CPR bacterium Vampirococcus lugosii from its genome sequence"
  [Video]

• Friday 4th June
  Valerie De Anda (Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas, Austin, USA)
  "Expanding the microbial tree of life"
  [Video]

• Friday 28th May
  Eric D. Becraft (University of North Alabama, Florence, USA)
  "Evolutionary stasis of a deep subsurface microbial lineage"
  [Video]

• Friday 21th May
  Luis M Rodriguez-R (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  "Testing the specialization-disturbance hypothesis in microbial communities"
  [Video]

• Friday 14th May
  Damien Devos (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain)
  "Microbiology's Platypus: novel biological model for divergent biology and redefining the Tree of Life"
  [Video]

• Friday 7th May
  Sarahi L. Garcia (Stockholm University, Sweden)
  "The chemical diversity of dissolved organic matter upkeeps the taxonomic diversity of heterotrophs"

• Friday 30th April
  Jaime Huertas (UPM-INIA, Madrid, Spain)
  "Functional and ecological significance of microbial gene families: a global metagenomics survey"

• Friday 23th April
  Philipp Engel (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
  "Eco-evolutionary dynamics of gut microbiomes - quantitative metagenomics of the honey bee gut microbiota"
  [Video]

• Friday 16th April
  Angela Sessitsch (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)
  "Plant microbiota from rhizosphere to seeds: ecology and how plants can benefit"

• Friday 9th April, 12:00
  Eduardo Rocha (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
  "Spread, acquisition and invention of novel functions by horizontal gene transfer"
  [Video]

• Friday 26th March, 12:00
  Amanda Clare (Aberystwyth University, UK)
  "Haplotype recovery from metagenomes"
  [Video]

• Friday 12th March, 12:00
  Rohit Ghai (Biology Centre CAS Institute of Hydrobiology, Czech Republic)
  "A search for the function of heliorhodopsins"
  [Video]

• Friday 5th March, 16:00
  Thomas Hackl (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
  "Tycheposons - mobile genetic elements abundant in marine viruses and vesicles shape Procholorococcus' genomic plasticity"
  [Video]

• Friday 26th February, 12:00
  Rafal Mostowy (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
  "Bacterial Genomics and HGT: from evolution to coevolution"
  [Video]

• Friday 12th February, 12:00
  Joanne Boden (University of Bristol, UK)
  "The Evolution of Cyanobacteria: A Focus on Antioxidant Enzymes and Salt Tolerance"

• Friday 5th February, 12:00
  Paul Wilmes (University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg)
  "Systems Ecology of Microbiomes"
  [Video]

• Friday 22nd January, 12:00
  John Paul Balmonte (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
  "Diverging influences of viral enrichment on particle vs. free-living bacterial community metabolism, structure, and particulate vs. dissolved elemental pools"

• Friday 15th January, 18:00
  Frank O. Aylward (Virginia Tech, USA)
  "Larger than life: the underexplored world of giant viruses"
  [Video]

• Thursday 7th January, 13:00
  Rotem Sorek (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
  "The pan-immune system of bacteria: Beyond CRISPR"

• Friday 18th December, 12:00
  Nicola Segata (Univ. Trento, Italy)
  "Strain-level large-scale human metagenomics: tools, applications, and future perspectives"

• Friday 11th December, 16:00
  Anja Spang (NIOZ, The Netherlands)
  "The evolving tree of life in the genomics era"

• Friday 4th December, 19:00
  Daniel Portik (Pacific Biosciences, California, USA)
  "Metagenomics with HiFi Reads"
  [Video]

• Friday 27th November, 19:00
  Mikhail Kolmogorov (Univ. of California San Diego, USA)
  "metaFlye: long-read metagenome assembly using repeat graphs"
  [Video]

• Friday 13th November, 12:00
  Mario Lopez-Perez (Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain)
  "The evolutionary success of the marine bacterium SAR11 analyzed through a metagenomic perspective"

• Friday 6th November, 12:00
  Joseph Christie-Oleza (Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Spain)
  "How do dominant marine bacteria avoid sinking"
  [Video]

• Friday 30th October, 12:00
  Christopher Bellas (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  "Reconstructing virus pangenomes from glacial ecosystems"
  [Video]

• Friday 23rd October, 12:00
  Jaime Iranzo (Centro de Biotecnolog�a y Genomica de Plantas, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
  "Modeling evolution of microbial and viral genomes"
  [Video]

• Friday 16rd October, 12:00
  Alex Mira (CSISP Valencia, Spain)
  "Improving oral health through metagenomics"
  [Video]

• Friday 2nd October, 19:00
  Alyson Santoro (Univ. Santa Barbara, USA)
  "Metabolic versatility in dark ocean 'autotrophs'"

• Friday 25th September, 12:00
  Tal Dagan (Univ. of Kiel, Germany)
  "The Darwinian fitness of extrachromosomal genetic elements"

• Friday 18th September, 12:00
  Moritz Buck (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden))
  "mOTUlizer: Bayesian approach to leverage metagenomic bins for pan-genome analysis"
[Video]

• Friday 24th July, 12:00
  Philip Hugenholtz (Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, Australia))
  "A scalable prokaryotic taxonomy in the age of Big Data"
[Video]