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:

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"

Thursday 16th December
Carlos Duarte (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Title to be announced

Thursday 23th December
Martin Wu (University of Virginia, USA)
<1>"16S rRNA copy number prediction and its implications in microbial diversity analyses"

Thursday 13rd January
Louis-Marie Bobay (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)
Title to be announced

Thursday 20rd January
David W. Ussery (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA)
Title to be announced

Previous seminars:

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 Biotecnologï¿½a 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"

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