Workshop on Eukaryotic Metabarcoding

Apart from using traditional morphology-based approaches and DNA-based techniques like single specimen DNA-barcoding (Sanger sequencing) to identify biological materials upon request, BopCo also explores new tools and techniques for species identification and DNA barcoding. Within this framework, BopCo will attend the workshop on Eukaryotic Metabarcoding organised by Physalia Courses during the first week of March.

Metabarcoding techniques are a set of novel genetic tools for qualitatively and quantitatively assessing biodiversity of natural communities. Their potential applications include (but are not limited to) accurate water quality, soil diversity assessment, trophic analyses of digestive contents, diagnosis of health status of fisheries, early detection of non-indigenous species, studies of global ecological patterns and biomonitoring of anthropogenic impacts. This workshop gives an overview of metabarcoding procedures with an emphasis on practical problem-solving and hands-on work using analysis pipelines on real datasets. After completing the workshop, students should be in a position to (1) understand the potential and capabilities of metabarcoding, (2) run complete analyses of metabarcoding pipelines and obtain diversity inventories and ecologically interpretable data from raw next-generation sequence data and (3) design their own metabarcoding projects, including bioinformatic data analysis and planning of laboratory work. All course materials (including copies of presentations, practical exercises, data files, and example scripts prepared by the instructing team) will be provided electronically to participants.

More information on this workshop and a detailed curriculum can be found on the Physalia Courses website.

Tue, 2019-02-19 13:49 -- BopCo
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith