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).

Upcoming seminars:

• 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"

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

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

• Friday 4th June
  Valerie De Anda (Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas, Austin, USA)
  Title to be announced

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

• Friday 18th June
  Stilianos Louca (Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA)
  Title to be announced

Previous seminars:

• 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]