Metagenomics Approaches and Data Analysis (2nd edition) Date: March 31 - April 2, 2014 Location: Nijmegen, the Netherlands Course coordinators: Sacha van Hijum (Radboudumc/NIZO food research), Bas Dutilh (Radboudumc/CMBI), Celia van Gelder (Radboudumc/NBIC/BioSB) Website & registration: http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/course-metagenomics-approaches-an... Course description The Metagenomics course covers Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of prokaryotes, eukaryotes and viruses. Topics are Metagenomics-specific issues like calling taxa, functional annotation, metagenome assembly and comparative Metagenomics. Target audience The course is aimed at PhD students and post-docs or researchers with a similar level, but scientific programmers and data analysts with a background in biology and bioinformatics may also attend. Participants will be invited to introduce their own research questions. Towards the end of the course remaining questions specific to your research will be discussed with the group. Course programme The programme for the course can be found at http://biosb.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Program_Metagenomics_2014_v2.pdf BioSB Course Programme The course portfolios of NBIC (bioinformatics) and NCSB (systems biology) will be integrated and continued in the Netherlands Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Research School (BioSB). The Education Portfolio of BioSB can be found at http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/. More information For more information about the course you can contact Celia van Gelder at education@nbic.nl<mailto:education@nbic.nl>. Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Coordinator Education CMBI Projectleader Education NBIC tel. +31-(0)24-3666120 e-mail: Celia.vanGelder@radboudumc.nl<mailto:C.vanGelder@umcn.nl> websites: www.cmbi.ru.nl<http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/>, www.nbic.nl<http://www.nbic.nl/> Postal address: CMBI 260 Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands Het Radboudumc staat geregistreerd bij de Kamer van Koophandel in het handelsregister onder nummer 41055629. The Radboud university medical center is listed in the Commercial Register of the Chamber of Commerce under file number 41055629.