NFDI4Microbiota and de.NBI 16S amplicon training course (Oct 22nd-24th 2025)

There has been a venue change! Please read more about this in the Registration & Venue section.

The microbiome is the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms found in and on all multicellular organisms from plants to animals. It has been found to be crucial for immunologic, hormonal and metabolic homeostasis of its host. In this workshop, we aim to not only introduce you to the all the necessary basic methods to analyse a microbiome experiment, like processing your raw data, statistical testing and quality control. Additionally, we want to introduce you to Qiita, a microbial study management platform used to manage and compute studies with microbiome data. This framework establishes an easily accessible way for non-computational scientists to analyse their own data with the option of using pre-defined workflows or building their own. Afterwards, we will explore the microbiome analysis pipeline QIIME2 to delve further into our data sets and to enable you to be able to take your first steps towards your own analysis.

Agenda

Wednesday, October 22nd

11:00-11:30 Introduction (Slides)
11:30-13:00 From raw data to feature tables (Slides)
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:30 Sequence quality control
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:30 Sequence quality control Hands-on

Thursday, October 23rd

10:00-10:30 QIIME2 and Qiita (Slides)
10:30-11:30 Qiita Hands-On
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-12:30 Qiita Hands-On (cont'd.)
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 QIIME2 Hands-On
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-15:30 Diversity Calculation (Slides)
15:30-16:00 QIIME2 Hands-On (cont'd.)

Friday, October 24th

10:00-11:30 Buffer for Hands-On, Coffee break in-between
11:30-11:45 Coffee break in-between
11:45-12:30 Buffer for Hands-On
12:30-13:30 Closing remarks and Farewell

Registration & Venue

This workshop is an in-person event and participation is free of charge. The venue has changed! The workshop will take place in our offices at Ludwigsplatz 13-15 35390 Giessen (6th floor)! Once you enter the building, the way to the workshop will be sign-posted.

The registration for the workshop is now closed!