Topic: 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

This EMBO workshop brings experimental and computational researchers together around molecular mechanisms of adaptation, evolutionary dynamics, microbial communities, symbiosis, biodiversity, and cell-environment interactions.

Life Perceives is a symposium bringing together scientists and artists for an open exploration of how “perception” can be understood as a phenomenon that does not only belong to humans, or even the so-called “higher organisms”, but exists across the entire spectrum of life in a myriad of forms. The symposium invites leading practitioners from the arts and sciences to present unique insights through short talks, open discussions, and artistic interventions that bring us slightly closer to 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