Gerrit Ansmann
University of Cologne
Germany
Overview
Course Overview
The course will introduce state-of-the art modelling and experimental tools for discovering and analysing species interactions in microbial communities, with a particular focus on metabolic dependencies.
The course will run over a period of five days, each day divided between a morning session with theory and an afternoon session with practical work. In the morning session, a leading expert in the field presents background information, key concepts and computational/experimental methods. This lecture module is followed by a meet the speaker coffee break. The concepts are then introduced in more detail by the speaker or by one of the organizing instructors. Afternoon sessions, supervised by the instructors and teaching assistants, are dedicated to extensive practical work in wet as well as dry lab.
The faculty’s expertise includes constrained based modelling, spatio-temporal dynamics, metagenomics, highthroughput phenotyping and metabolomics.
Audience
The course is tailored for PhD students and post-docs with interest in analysing species interactions in natural or synthetic microbial communities. We expect both biologists interested in learning/using modelling and mathematicians/physicists/computer scientists with little biology exposure. Attendance is limited to 20 and the teacher-student ratio is excellent.
Modules/Resources
The modelling component will cover constraint-based steady-state models as well as dynamic models. Experimental techniques will include high-throughput interaction mapping and metabolomics.
Learning Outcomes
The unique combination of wet-lab experiments with mathematical modelling will give the participants an all-round exposure to key methods required to go from hypothesis to the bench and back. The course will further provide a platform for discussion of the key questions and challenges in the field, and improve communication between the bench and computational scientists.
Speakers
Speakers and Trainers
Sonja Blasche
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Tobias Bollenbach
University of Cologne
Germany
Peer Bork
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Olivia Bulka
University of Toronto
Canada
Ruhi Choudhary
University of Toronto
Canada
Ilija Dukovski
Boston University
USA
Payam Ghiaci
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Kristina Grkovska
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Paula Jouhten
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
Finland
Eleni Kafkia
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Yongkyu Kim
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Dimitrios Konstantinidis
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Daniel Machado
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Radhakrishnan Mahadevan
University of Toronto
Canada
Alessio Milanese
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Kiran Raosaheb Patil
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Georg Zeller
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Scientific Organisers
Eva-Maria Geissen
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Radhakrishnan Mahadevan
University of Toronto
Canada
Kiran Raosaheb Patil
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Course Organisers
Christina Dollt
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Programme
Date: 3 - 7 Dec 2018
Location: EMBL Heidelberg