Category: Institut Pasteur International Network

Hands-on microbiome data analysis: tools for understanding microbial communities in health and disease

EVENT : C3BI Training

Main speaker : Gregorio Iraola, from Institut Pasteur de Montevideo Date : 03-12-2018 at 09:00 am Location : Institut Pasteur de Montevideo

This course aims to provide the theoretical and practical concepts for standard bioinformatic analysis in the field of microbiome research. The course will focus on the application of state-of-the-art software tools for the analysis of environmental and host-associated microbiomes, with particular emphasis on understanding how they change or constitute a risk for human health. The course will have expert lectures and theoretical/practical data analysis sessions with real datasets.

 

STUDENT’S PRE-REQUISITES • Directed to post-graduation (M.Sc. or Ph.D.) students. • Basic concepts of high-throughput sequencing technologies. • Basic understanding of metagenomics and microbial ecology. • Basic skills in the Linux terminal.

 

TEACHERS

Institut Pasteur Montevideo

  • Chair: Gregorio Iraola
  • Pablo Fresia
  • Daniela Costa
  • Cecilia Salazar
  • Verónica Antelo
  • Ignacio Ferrés
  • Matias Giménez
Institut Pasteur Paris
  • Marie Lopez
  • Amine Ghozlane
  • Angèle Benard

      • INVITED SPEAKERS
      • Gianfranco Grompone, Discovery Microbiome, Nutrition & Health Science Lead, Lesaffre, France.
      • David Danko, Director of Bioinformatics, MetaSUB International Consortium, Weill Cornell Medicine, US
       

      DEADLINE APPLICATIONS October 19, 2018. Send your CV (one page) and letter of motivation to: antonio.borderia@pasteur.fr

      Flyer_Microbiome_health-course_Montevideo_2018  

C3BI Courses: Introduction to Molecular Phylogenetics – Hong Kong 2018

General Information:

This introductory course aims to give the basic theoretical and practical concepts, best practices, and software necessary to start working on molecular phylogenetics and its applications to epidemiology. The course will have theoretical morning sessions followed by small groups practice for a few selected students with their own data. Flyer for the course: CLICK ME

Topics:

  • Introduction to phylogeny: General principles for the inference, interpretation of trees, and application to infectious diseases
  • Introduction to the math behind the trees and evolutionary models
  • Distance and parsimony methods
  • Maximum likelihood methods
  • Bayesian methods, phylodynamics
  • Branch supports, bootstrapping
  • How to select the best method and evolutionary model
  • Tree dating, reconstructing and using character evolution
  • Molecular epidemiology

Teachers:

Chair: Olivier Gascuel, C3BI, Institut Pasteur (France)   Anna Zhukova, C3BI, Institut Pasteur (France) Frédéric Lemoine, C3BI, Institut Pasteur (France) Hein Min Tun, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong Julien Guglielmini, C3BI, Institut Pasteur (France) Sebastian Duchene, University of Melbourne (Australia) Tim Vaughan, ETH Zürich (Switzerland) Tommy Lam, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong Veronika Boskova, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)

Course dates:

Monday, October 22nd to Saturday, October 27th

Pre-requisites:

  • Basic knowledge on how to use sequence databanks
  • Basic knowledge using Blast and multiple alignments software
  • Basic knowledge on statistics (tests, distributions, parameter estimation)

Applications:

Open to postgraduate students, MD, DVM, postdoctoral fellows and young scientists from Hong Kong and overseas. The course fees are 500HK for the theory sessions and 1000HK for the full course. Students coming from the Institut Pasteur International Network will have the fees waived. Please fill in the following application form before August 14th Midnight (HK time). Use the link if you can’t see the embedded form: https://goo.gl/forms/rgYrUNrEz6rqgELP2)