Symposium of the CUSO Doctoral Program StarOmics .

Satellite symposium of SME 2013 , 5th Swiss Microbial Ecology (SME) Meeting, 4-6 February 2013, Murten.

Organizer: Prof. Pilar Junier (University of Neuchâtel)

Prof. J. Gregory Caporaso , Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, USA: developer of QIIME

Martin Hartmann, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland

Program (31.1.2013)

Omics approaches are changing the way we can study microbial ecology. Undoubtedly, the extraction, amplification and sequencing of genes (particularly the 16S rRNA gene) from environmental samples, initiated a new era of microbial ecology related to the description and study of uncultured microorganisms. This new era has advanced one step further with the direct sequencing of environmental DNA. Similar cases can be found in other areas including microarrays, proteomics and metabolomics applied to environmental samples.

The objective of this satellite symposium is to bring keynote speakers with large experience on the analysis of “omics” (i.e. metagenomics) to present and discuss their work to an audience mainly composed of PhD students in different areas related to microbial ecology.

Besides the presentations prepared by the speakers, the participants are expected to discuss and present the basis and their experience with different analysis software, as well as to have hand-on training on a particular selected analysis tool.

This satellite symposium will precede the SME 2013 meeting which  is intended in particular for PhD students and young post-docs.

Date : 4 February 2013

Location : Centre Loewenberg, Murten

ECTS : 0.5 (attendance only), 1.0 (poster presentation) (Scientific activities)

Evaluation : Active participation

Information : see CUSO Doctoral Program StarOmics detailed information or contact the organizer Prof. Pilar Junier

Travel expenses : participants of the Interuniversity doctoral program in organismal biology (and who are not registered in the CUSO doctoral program StarOmics) are eligible for reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, and 2nd class). 

  MAKE SURE you SIGN the ATTENDANCE LIST
and
TAKE your ATTESTATION of ATTENDANCE at the END of the WORKSHOP

Please send the original train tickets (no copies, except for AG/GA) with the reimbursement form  to Dr Christiane Bobillier.  No reimbursement for bus, taxi or car travel expenses will be paid.

For participants of the CUSO doctoral program StarOmics, see web site .

Registration : through the CUSO doctoral program StarOmics web site: closed

Deadline : 15 January 2013

Deadline for SME2013 : early registration (with payment) is 10 January 2013