Microbial communities

…and computational interpretation of microbial communities.

Analyze microbial communities through DNA metabarcoding, from experimental design to statistical interpretation. The programme examines bacterial, archaeal and fungal marker choices, primers, library preparation, replication and sequencing coverage. Practical bioinformatics develops quality-controlled community profiles from raw reads, followed by multivariate analyses of community composition using QIIME2 and related workflows. 2027-04-12–2027-04-16, 14:00–20:00 daily, Europe/Berlin (CEST, UTC+02:00). Online course; fee €530. A biology and DNA background is expected. Prior programming is not

…scope includes bacterial physiology, microbial communities and microbiomes, interactions with hosts and phages, and bacterial behaviour in natural environments. Systems-level methods and single-cell approaches are considered together, allowing researchers developing new technologies to engage with biological questions and microbiologists to evaluate new ways of testing hypotheses. The programme combines invited and selected contributions with

…of adaptation, evolutionary dynamics, microbial communities, symbiosis, biodiversity, and cell-environment interactions.

…the life worlds of plants and fungi, microbial communities and immune systems, cuttlefish and crows. What

Active matter systems are composed of constituents, each one in nonequilibrium, that consume energy in order to move [1]. A characteristic feature of active matter is collective motion leading to nonequilibrium phase transitions or large scale directed motion [2]. A number of recent works have featured active particles interacting with obstacles, either moving or fixed [3,4,5]. When an active particle encounters an asymmetric obstacle, different behaviours are detected depending on the nature of its active motion. On the one side, rectification effects arise in a suspension of run-and-tumble