Metabarcoding

…centres on analysing metagenomic and metabarcoding data from high-throughput sequencing, adapting algorithms and statistical methods to metabarcoding data for specific taxonomic groups such as foraminifera, building and curating barcoding and metabarcoding reference databases, maintaining the laboratory's bioinformatics tools, training team members in bioinformatics for environme

The Plant-Microbe Systems group at the Leibniz Institute for Horticultural Sciences (IGZ) in Großbeeren offers a two-year postdoctoral position from 1 February 2027 (TV-L up to E13, full-time, part-time possible). The group studies interactions between plants, their associated microbiomes and the environment, combining molecular, bioinformatic and field-based approaches to identify microbiome-informed strategies for sustainable, climate-resilient crop production. The postdoc will perform microbiological and molecular laboratory work on environmental and plant-associated samples, including cult

Design and analyse environmental-DNA metabarcoding studies with portable Nanopore sequencing. The workshop links field sampling, contamination controls, extraction and PCR to barcoding, library preparation and sequencing. Guided bioinformatics practicals cover basecalling, demultiplexing, filtering, clustering and taxonomic assignment before analysing biodiversity patterns in R. Participants compare alpha and beta diversity and ordination methods, while learning how laboratory choices and sequencing errors affect ecological interpretation. Live online, 2–4 February, 14:00–18:00 Europe/Berlin