You can access the presentations for the week from the link to this Google Drive
Monday, May 26, 2025 - Symposium: Introduction to Microbiome
Research and Data Acquisition
| Time |
Event |
Speaker/facilitator |
| 8:00 |
Register and Mingle |
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| 8:30 |
Introductory Talks |
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Introduction to the Workshop |
Prof. Sibusiso Moyo |
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Introduction to the Imperial Global Hub |
Prof. Sarah Fidler |
| 9:00 |
The Promise of Microbial Communities for Agricultural Applications |
Prof. Olubukola Oluranti Babalola |
| 9:25 |
Ecology and Evolution of the Microbiome |
Prof. Tom Bell |
| 9:50 |
Engineering Agricultural Microbiomes using Ecology and Evolution |
Prof. Samraat Pawar |
| 10:15 |
Title TBD |
Prof. Karin Jacobs |
| 10:30 |
Coffee/Tea Break |
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| 11:00 |
Q&A + Breakout sessions |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 |
Environmental Research Practices and the Challenges of Acquiring Microbiome Data |
Dr. Paidamoyo Mataranyika |
| 14:25 |
Considerations of Metagenomic Data Acquisition and Analysis |
Dr. Balig Panossian |
| 14:50 |
Parallel Activities |
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HPC and Software Set Up |
Mr. George Kalogiannis |
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PI Networking Event |
PIs |
| 16:00 |
End of day wrap-up |
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025 - Environmental Data Management and Visualisation Skills
| Time |
Event |
Speaker/facilitator |
| 8:30 |
Data management and visualisation (practical) |
Samraat Pawar |
| 10:30 |
Coffee/Tea Break |
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| 11:00 |
Data management and visualisation (practical) - continued |
Samraat Pawar |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
|
| 14:00 |
Data management and visualisation (practical) - continued |
Samraat Pawar |
| 15:30 |
Metagenome-associated environmental data exploration (practical) |
Paidamoyo Mataranyika |
| 16:30 |
End of day wrap-up |
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - Quality Control and Taxonomic
Analysis of Microbiome Amplicon Data
| Time |
Event |
Speaker/facilitator |
| 8:30 |
Fundamentals of microbiome genetics (practical) |
George Kalogiannis & Balig Panossian |
| 10:30 |
Coffee/Tea Break |
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| 11:00 |
Amplicon analysis using Qiime2 (practical) |
George Kalogiannis & Balig Panossian |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 |
Amplicon analysis using Qiime2 (practical) - continued |
George Kalogiannis & Balig Panossian |
| 16:30 |
End of day wrap-up |
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Thursday, May 29, 2025 - Diversity and Statistical Analysis of Microbial Communities
| Time |
Event |
Speaker/facilitator |
| 8:30 |
Phylogenetics and diversity metrics of microbiomes (practical) |
George Kalogiannis, Paidamoyo Mataranyika &
Balig Panossian |
| 10:30 |
Coffee/Tea Break |
|
| 11:00 |
Phylogenetics and diversity metrics of microbiomes (practical) - continued |
George Kalogiannis, Paidamoyo Mataranyika &
Balig Panossian |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
|
| 14:00 |
Phylogenetics and diversity metrics of microbiomes (practical) - continued |
George Kalogiannis, Paidamoyo Mataranyika &
Balig Panossian |
| 15:00 |
Discussion session: How confident are we in microbiome analysis outputs? |
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| 16:00 |
End of day wrap-up |
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Friday, May 30, 2025 - Applied Project and Presentations
| Time |
Event |
Speaker/facilitator |
| 8:30 |
Hackathon: How do lifestyle food practices influence the human gut microbiome? |
George Kalogiannis |
| 10:00 |
Seminar: Ask a science journalist |
Sarah Wild |
| 11:00 |
Coffee/Tea Break |
|
| 11:15 |
Hackathon continued - With instructor support |
Balig Panossian & Paidamoyo Mataranyika |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
|
| 13:30 |
Hackathon Wrap-up and Presentations |
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| 15:00 |
Discussion session: Going beyond metagenomics and diversity analyses |
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| 16:00 |
End of day wrap-up |
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