Posts

Summer School -Design and Control of Microbial Communities, 11 – 13th Sep 2023, Leuven, Belgium

Summer School

Design and Control of Microbial Communities
11 – 13th Sep 2023, Leuven, Belgium

by Karoline Faust, Didier Gonze, Leo Lahti

In this summer school, we want to introduce students at the Master and PhD level to different computational methods to manipulate microbial communities to shift them towards a desired composition or function. In addition, we want to broaden the horizon of our students with a couple of research talks on the latest developments in the field. Beyond educational purposes, we also hope to initiate a scientific exchange between speakers and students.

More information: http://msysbiology.com/microbedesign/

/0 Comments/by

Registration open for the ML4Microbiome Training School 2021

The ML4Microbiome Training School 2021 will be held virtually on 27-28 September & 4-7-8 October 2021!

Visit the Training school webpage, look at the programme and register. Registration is free and open to everybody who is interested in learning about Machine Learning applied to the analysis of microbiome data.

Topics

Microbiome biology

Microbiome sampling & wet-lab basics, study design

Metagenomic data analysis for human gut microbiota: statistical specificity of microbiome data

Statistical analysis of microbiome data

Compositional data analysis

Machine learning: basic concepts

Avoiding compositionality and absolute abundance profiling

Discussion on rarefying, clustering and data transformation (alr/clr/ilr)

Unsupervised learning: Basic approaches

Supervised machine learning: Methods and Model Quality Assessment

Hands-on sessions on Unsupervised & Supervised Machine Learning

/0 Comments/by