METAGENOMICS FORUM

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All times are in CET (Central European Time).

Upcoming seminars:

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

• Friday 11th December, 16:00
  Anja Spang (NIOZ, The Netherlands)
  Title to be announced

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

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

• Friday 15th January, 18:00
  Frank O. Aylward (Virginia Tech, USA)
  Title to be announced

• Friday 22nd January, 12:00
  John Paul Balmonte (University of Uppsala, Sweden)
  Title to be announced

• Friday 29th January, 19:00
  José de la Torre (San Francisco State University, USA)
  Title to be announced

Previous seminars:

• 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 Biotecnología 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]