Don't forget to tune in Monday for the live stream of Computational
Advances in Microbiome Research, a NIMBioS Investigative Workshop. The
first talk begins at 9:30 a.m. with an overview of microbial community
studies from Dr. Jill Banfield (UC Berkeley).
Sessions will be live streamed -- visit
http://www.nimbios.org/videos/WS_CAMRws_form.html for log in. Join the
conversation and post your questions on Twitter using #CAMRws
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*Objectives:* Recent years have seen a tremendous upswing in microbial
community research, ranging from studies of the human microbiome to
investigations of biogeochemical cycling in global soil and oceans and
coral mucus ecosystems. This has been triggered in large part by the
decreasing cost, increasing ubiquity, and democratization of analysis
methods for high-throughput sequencing, which has made both
amplification-based and shotgun metagenomic profiling of microbial
communities accessible to diverse research fields. Microbial community
studies have a long history derived from a variety of research areas,
however, including ecology, soil and ocean biochemistry, human and
environmental toxicology, air quality and environmental monitoring,
agriculture, and biodefense. As the methods necessary for modern data
analysis have become more complex, new computational approaches have
developed independently in many of these subfields, but there have been
few opportunities to integrate knowledge and bioinformatic techniques
across microbial community research areas.
The overarching goal of this workshop is to bring together and integrate
novel bioinformatic techniques from diverse areas of microbial community
research. This will allow us more specifically to:
* Share the state of the art in microbial community analysis from
diverse fields.
* Identify techniques from one field that are useful in others.
* Identify gaps in computational and statistical techniques not
currently addressed in any subfields.
* Identify gaps in biological knowledge that could be addressed by new
quantitative methods.
The workshop is designed as a small, focused workshop bringing together
the top thought leaders in computational microbial community analysis
techniques from a variety of biological application areas. We anticipate
this will foster new ideas, accelerate the pace of biological discovery
by disseminating current techniques across fields, provide a starting
point for new collaborations, and identify gaps that might be targeted
by future funding opportunities.
*Organizers: *
Jill Banfield, Earth and Planetary Science and Environmental Science,
Policy and Management, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Curtis Huttenhower, Biostatistics (Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics), School of Public Health, Harvard Univ.
For more information on the workshop including the agenda, visit
http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_microbiome
/While the workshop will be streamed live, note that NIMBioS
Investigative Workshops involve open discussion and not necessarily a
succession of talks. In addition, the schedule as posted may change
during the Workshop.
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Communications Manager
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
University of Tennessee
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